cashs_mom

If you're looking to learn FMQ, I highly recommend Ranae Merrill's Free Motion Mastery in a Month online classes. I don't think she has special magic to impart, but the series of classes makes you do a bit of FMQ every day and takes you from one shape to another in a logical way. It makes it easier to do the designs when you see the basic shapes.

I've learned that sometimes you just have to do it. It might not be as perfect as you'd like, but you do have the satisfaction of having made the whole quilt yourself and not just made a quilt top that someone else finished which is something I really like.