A straight stitch plate, one small hole, can help significantly cut down on this problem. You can also use older machines that have but one small hole for the needle to go through. Now with all we expect the machines to do the openings in the plate are bigger. I bought a straight stitch plate with a small whole for my janome 6500. It was about $40 but it did cut down on the eating of fabric when piecing.
Last edited by Annaquilts; 02-04-2016 at 06:44 AM.