Originally Posted by
Cherylsea
I just watched that episode! She talked about placing the pins back enough to miss the 1/4" seam allowance .... and then sewed over the pins!! If you have a computerized machine and must sew over pins it is better to manually walk the machine over the pin. I do like her class and think she is a good teacher but that part was a bit perplexing.
I saw this episode as well and was surprised....but sometimes I mistakenly go over pins, and I don't think that is the problem, but the problem would be if you hit the pin, as others said, shards flying and messing the timing in your machine