Originally Posted by
Jingle
Jan in Va had this tip a while back. I find evetually the cloth works it's way under the stack.
That's because the note pad isn't tightly stuck down to your throat plate.
I use a thick rubber band to hold mine down because my extension table will still fit onto my Bernina with the band in place. Otherwise I'd use a loooong piece of Scotch tape to hold it tightly in place.
With both the rubber band and tape, you can easily remove them when the bobbin needs to be changed or you are sewing a diagonal seam.
A second reason for using the tape or band is because the metal of the throat plate on any machine I've worked with, in class or personally, does NOT accept the sticky on the notepads for more than a few minutes.
This is still a cheapest and most efficient trick around; I've been using it and promoting it for decades. Literally.