Here's my tip. I use two small squares of the rubbery gridded shelf liner that we all use under the presser foot to keep it from walking away for my machine quilting. I was away at a retreat and a friend wanted to machine quilt but didn't have her quilting gloves. She cut up some of this stuff into approx. 4" squares to put under her fingers and it worked for her. When I got home, I tried this and found it so much more convenient than the gloves, which you seem to take off and put on a lot.