I have an Ellisimo also, my Christmas gift. Before that an Ellegante. In either case, I have my needle position all the way over to the right, width of 7.0. I also have a fantastic ruler that has this little hole in it for the needle and it shows where the scant 1/4 would be on my sewing machine bed. I use mole skin and line it up with that ruler. Works everytime - best lesson I learned in one of my classes. Not only do I get a great scant 1/4, I have nice straight seams.