I am like Dunster, I like to crawl under with my flashlight and sometimes I just lay there on my back and stare for the pleasure of it and to give my body time to argue with me before the getting up part. LOL. I also do the test swatches on the side like ube quilting. On the edge like that you can simply flip it over enough to see of the stitches are good.
I have never heard about having to let a machine warm up for 5 minutes?!?! I am sure glad my LA doesn't have that requirement, that would drive me insane. Especially when having to unthread part of it? What kind of LA did you get that requires this? And more importantly what was the manufactureres reason for it? That seems a bit ridiculous in my mind with today's technology.