Originally Posted by
meyert
oh my I need to look at my machine! I bought a Janome 6600 this spring and I have never touched a "needle setting" and I was never told of such a thing during my lessons..... something to investigate
Oh yes indeed ... learn about that needle left/right ability.
Just look it up in your manual and you're away to the races!
It is a great asset, and I use it for more than the 1/4" seam foot.
Just be careful to not put it too far to the left/right that it comes down on top of the foot, or else you can break a needle and might throw off the timing.
Marsh ... just move the setting til you get the precise 1/4" results. You might even find that you set it slightly different with different threads (coarse/fine) as they can take up room in the seams. Not sure about your 4120 model, but some of the Janome machines you can override the auto-preset with your desired setting, so that when your machine comes on, it is at your settings already. If you can, do that .... my old machine, I could not do that, and I don't know how many times I turned on the machine, started stitching and of course, did not have a 1/4" seam! From then on, I made sure any new machine has that ability.