So sorry that happened to you. But it has happened to all of us. I usd to get down underneath my machine to check stitches, but now that area is used for storage, so now I use a light and a hand held mirror, held at an angle close to the stitching, as someone else said. One other thing I do to help me see, which has not been mentioned yet, is to raise the take up bar to the fullest height. That really makes it easy to see from the back of the machine. Just be sure to remember to lower it again before you continue quilting (another mistake I've made). I think we all make every mistake there is to make. I know I do. Some of them more than once.
