Joe, I'm like your wife in how she pins. However, I just bought the Nova Montgomery guides for my FW and with the guides you have to pin from the left. It's going to be a trick for me to do this since I've pinned from the right my whole life. But, I thought I'd give it a shot as the guides on her site were just too tempting not to try. Usually I'm happy with my 1/4 feet but I seem to have a problem with the tensioner getting in my line of sight on the FW and I just don't "see" as well on that machine. My 301 with their slant shank are much easier to play with :> I'm not a super tall person, but I've tried sewing with the FW up on a table and set down inside a card table and the tensioner gets in my way:< I'm hoping I'll like the seam guide better. I got it in the mail yesterday and played with it for a little while and it may do the trick if I can master pinning from the left!