Well I'm a FM newbie, but on my recent baby quilt I made a big 'plus' sign to anchor it and then went in and filled in the remaining corner 'boxes'. Seemed to work OK. Here's a blog I read alot while gathering the courage to give it a shot -- she has diagram in it of what FM path she takes.
http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransso...-quilting.html