It's pretty basic. Always have something under your needle. Chain piece your projects - one piece following in after the other. My Grandmother Stella new this long before I began sewing. She had this small scrap of fabric that she ran through the machine at the beginning and stopped sewing on until it began to look like a very hairy spider!
Points tend to want to get pushed by the needle through the needleplate and all sorts of unhappiness begins as it gets tangled, jams the machine, and interrupts our sewing session possibly damaging the fabric.
If your machine head is portable, leave the spider in place. Protect your sewing feet from damage or scratching by the feed dogs. There should always be fabric between them.
Then there the matter of running the sewing machine with your fingers very close to that needle. Another simple fix - go out to eat Chinese!
Grab an extra set of chop sticks. Even if you can't manage to eat with them they are very handy to hold or guide small pieces of fabric through the sewing machine.
They are VERY inexpensive if not FREE and can be used for a multitude of small tasks. Try turning that next applique project with a chopstick. Great for pushing out and making nice corners.
Your long tweezers from your serger are also very handy.
Sew, that's it for today....Happy Sewing!
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