JanTx

I have been sewing strips around charm pack blocks (2.5 strips around 5" precuts) and some of them seem just a bit off - they seem to be pulling to the right as I sew.

I sew at my dining room table while sitting on a wooden stool. Works for me for now anyway. Finally figured out I wasn't lined up straight with my machine so the usual guides I use to get that 1/4" seam were just off a bit. Once I sat straight with the machine the problem stopped.

Make sense to anyone else? As I got to the end of each block I was pulling it just a tiny bit towards me and ... I was off.

Perhaps I just started paying more attention, but whatever the reason it seems to be fixed.

Grama Lehr

That makes sense to me. . . . . good luck with the rest of them!!

Sandra in Minnesota

Makes sense to me too. For 15 years I sat on a wooden stool --This Christmas I bought myself a "task Chair" and it is the most wonderful change in the world! No backache, no buttache. Best $40.00 ever spent.

raynhamquilter

What's a task chair?

Monroe

Makes sense to me! I have amblyopia (lazy eye) that wasn't diagnosed til I was 5. Since my eyes don't coordinate I use my L eye as dominant, and had the worst time trying to get an accurate 1/4" seam. Finally realized I tilt my head to the R and wasn't sitting square to the presser foot so I had been making slightly wider than accurate seams. Just off by a few threads, but it adds up! Sort of like looking at the liquid level in a glass measuring cup from the wrong angle ("parallax error"). There's a new line of fabric that is 3D with special glasses- but doesn't work for me.

auntpiggylpn

A task chair is a computer chair, usually on wheels that doesn't have the arm rests on it.

QandE2010

Makes sense to me. It's amazing what contributes to the end result being accurate or not accurate.

jhoward

I will be more attentive to where I sit in relation to the needle. Thanks for the tip.