Originally Posted by
#1piecemaker
I seem to have trouble with straight line stitching. My question is how do you manage straight line stitching? do you use rulers? Do you mark and then stitch? And, How about cross hatching? How do you make that straight line crosswise straight? Guides? I can be going along just fine and then boooooomm. Jerks to the right. Get back on the line and booom jerks to the left. Any solutions?
Are you talking about when you use your longarm? If it is your longarm, it sounds like you either have a high/low spot on your rails, the frame is not balanced, or there's a piece of lint on your wheels or rails. I use a short (6") strait edge guide, I get in trouble with a long one and do pretty well on the N-S and E-W lines, but struggle with diagonals.