Yes, it's typical when doing circles or spirals for folks to speed their hands up. Try making a conscious effort to slow your hands down but keep your machine speed up when you are doing circles or spirals and see if that helps. Alternatively, you could speed your machine up when you do circles and spirals.
You want to make sure you are not moving your hands faster than the needle is going up and down.
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