I still wanted to FMQ so I bought a used machine with a bigger throat area. No family member has been a quilt police and don't mind that my lines cross over sometimes or the loops and hearts and not even.
Is it worth an additional machine to pursue FMQ? I got mine used so the cost was only $600 for a Janome 6500P. It made life simpler for me and it fit flat at the front in my old Parson cabinet too.
Try it again later, or come on over to ILL and try mine out. Really, I am out of school now and you can see perfect doesn't always matter!