Moderator Art Posted December 8, 2011 Moderator Report Posted December 8, 2011 The tighter you turn, the longer your stitch length will be in relation to a straight line of stitching. Your leather is moving faster. You can minimize this by only turning the leather when the machine is feeding (needle down and moving rearward). Move the leather only when the machine will let you. If you turn when there is a foot down, you will get wonky stitching. It just takes practice, remember, guide the leather, don't force it. Like Ferg said, going slow helps this. BTW, like any well designed machine, a quality sewing machine will do the same thing going fast or going slow. So, you can throw away the motor and turn it over by hand from now on if that's what you want, same stitch, generally no better or worse. Art actually I do the corners or turns by hand. maybe it is a matter of momentum - using the wheel by hand but quickly and with a bit of force??? Quote For heaven's sakes pilgrim, make yourself a strop!
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