Okay all you FMQs, I've taken your advice and worked on my speed. Counter-intuitively to me, I've got to move my quilt slower, but keep the speed up on my machine. So far, so good (although my stitches are kind of small). The tension is right, and the "eyelashes" on the back are gone.
Next problem--breaking thread. I had this problem when my tension was off, and I assumed the two were related. Nope. The thread is actually shredding. And strangely enough, when I first gave this a go on my sample block a few weeks back, I don't recall breaking thread being an issue.
Ideas?
TIA! Michelle in Nevada, USA
P.S. I looked at some videos of FMQ online. My goodness, these people make it look easy.