Lots of suggestions and all of them seem to have merit. I'm thinking the idea of the fabric not on the feed dogs completely is a big part of my problem - my needle position doesn't move to the right- if I could do that I think the fabric would be on the feed dogs and under the foot well so that when the needle was moved right I would still get the 1.4 in seam. My struggles over the weekend to do good seams left me with wrinkles between my eyes, face tomato soup red and urge to pick up machine and throw! Am game to try try again - like I told a friend the other day, these mistakes are too much fun to do only once! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :?: