Don't you just wish they would make a left handed sewing machine? I would LOVE to take the pins out without the throat being in the way too. It will never happen. I have learned to use the rotary cutting mat to turn things when I am cutting the 'wrong' way. But most of the time, I just have to flip to cut, and the rulers are always wrong. Now they have printed them either way, and that too me is even more confusing. I guess it is a right handed world..