I find that when that happens to me is when I'm quilting from my recliner with a pillow at my back. If I turn my Gidget sewing machine table around and I sit up to it in a dining room chair which is higher. They say the perfect height to sit & sew is when your elbows can just rest comfortably on the sewing table when you're sitting normally. If you need to, put a stool in front of your sewing chair and put your foot pedal on some rubberized shelf liner so it doesn't move & put that on the stool as well. That way, you have a place to rest your feet & still use the foot pedal.