Originally Posted by
quiltstringz
You have to remember that with any computerized machine you chance throwing the timing out if you hit a pin.
That's true for
any machine, mechanical or computer ... it's just the computer models cost more because the technicians have to know more.
Try pinning in the seam allowance rather than across the seam ... in other words the head of the pin would be facing you and the point facing the machine's needle instead of left to right.