Me thinks that something might have happened...........

Sometimes I think they are built in but without an "OFF" button

Have yet to locate the off button to this feature. I wish the designers/manufacturers would not include this feature as it would make our machines less costly to purchase and operate. ;)

....just like a two year old...they're fast...you can't take your eyes off either of them!

Let me know when you found it. My machine must have 2. One additional just for back up. It rarely fails

yes they do !! & how to turn it off : just somehow that part of the manual is not printed clearly..

It's all down to the quality of the coal that you fire the boiler with..................well, that's what my manual says!

You are so funny! Seriously, I've looked and don't find any turn off for this feature. So true they want to get naughty when one's head is turned. Actually, so enjoy watching it sew out.

Oh dear yes I dare not move away from mine very attached it is can't find the umbilical cord

And this is why I am constantly talking to my machine. I promise it only has another fill in the blank stitches to finish, that I am only going to the other side of the room. And so on. It seems to help. My Mollie and Lizzie seem to behave better when I talk. And people who don't embroider will read these comments and think we are all nuts. Little do they know...

Mine misbehaves even when I sit with it so I don't have the answer.

I don't have the nerve to even glance away from mine I watch every stitch

At first I thought it was my chair (sensor when I stand up) but I replaced the chair. It doesn't matter which machine I use, I must be sitting and watching the whole time! I think it is an internal button, inside us. It is located in the same area of the brain as the one that infants have when they know you are sitting, resting, or ready for sleep.

In a class I took, we were talking about phrases that could go on an embroidery quilt or shirt. I was new to embroidery at the time and I didn't understand, "Don't walk away." But now I do! Some of the others were more helpful - "Upper tension IS lower tension", ( so rethread both if you rethread one). "Would you like a do-over?" (Re-stitch right over the previous lumpy stitching.) My favorite: "Put a cross on it first, so everything turns out right."

I asked my dealer about that when I had a machine serviced. He said it is a freebie that the makers put in to make sure we behave and give our full attention to our expensive babies. I could live without it.

Yes, I'd say its the same one that tells the 3 dogs I'm currently walking when I avert my eyes to look at a tree or something and they choose then to cross in front of me! Maybe embroidery machines are conscientious objectors to multi-tasking?

Have you noticed that it's also the only time a hoop will unspring/come apart, when you dare tempt fate by walking away?

I swear they do, I thought only mine did this......nice to know I am in good company!!!

When our youngest daughter had her first baby I bought a baby monitor for her. When I told her some Cuties used them to watch their embroidery machines she thought I was joking.........I wasn't. Actually I was giving her a hint. I do not think there is a sensor it is all programmed into the machine. My mobile phone has a setting ,Smart Stay, that says the screen stays on as long as you are looking at it. Maybe.....................

It's definitely not a chair sensor. My computer is to the side of my machine, so while it's doing it's thing, I'm often on my computer or doing something by hand while still sitting there. It just seems to want your full attention. They are so needy!

lol Iwant to know where it is also

LOL! Me too!!

Seriously though ladies, it's all a question of which planet your machine was made.......................Mars or Venus. I don't have the problem you describe so you know which planet my machine was made.

I thoroughly cracked up reading all the comments here.

When we lived at Ray's house my sewing room was the back sun room adjoining the kitchen and I could watch my machine through the kitchen window.
Every time I had to leave my machine I would to talk to it through the window saying stupid things like: "I'm still here" or, "I'm watching you" or, "Don't you dare play up" and many other such nonsensical remarks......... until Ray came up behind me one day and asked who I was talking to.
Red faced much!!!! LOL!!!

That's what happens when you give a machine a brain. Unlike all the old machines that only did what we made it do, these highly intelligent "beings" have a mind of their own. Yikes, I don't want to think about the capability of that, though it is Halloween. Wonder if they communicate with others close by. Dare I push that on button today. I think I saw that movie.......

Caroline.................this post is reaching the same hilarious levels as did the scissor entry. Congratulations on introducing yet another serious topic to the Cutie Debating Forum.

Before I even got to the comments on this, you made me laugh! Of course I too want to know, mine seems to know when I am embroidering for a certain customer, it messes something up EVERY time! Even if I am standing right there...The needle will break and punch a big hole, or the thread will bird nest. So I guess it is universal......let me know if you ever find that switch!

What a good laugh for today. I talk to mine all the time. I also talk to the computer and TV. Glad no one is around to hear. You should hear me when I talk to the cell phone. Not a happy camper on that one. Thanks

Mine seems to have faulty wires. Sometimes it's happy to finish several thousand stitches when I've left to go to the store, but it gets super touchy at times and activates from nothing more than picking up my phone to text someone...

oh I hoped someone was able to explain where that sensor is hiding......finally someone who asked here, but so disappointing no one knows....
I agree with you, my machine always notices when I leave the room ........
But thank you for asking !!

We discussed this problem when I was attending classes.
A very serious matter, though it does seem ridiculous.
I remember one time, one of the young lasses had to go to the loo. She asked the rest of the class to carefully monitor her machine while she was away as it did not like her leaving its side at home. That meant we all knew that her machine KNEW that it was being babysat.
No problems occurred.
If this wasn't done the machine played up, which it did a few other occasions that she left its side
Seems they need to know that someone is watching all the time.
My machine likes me to sit with my cats and watch it. One of my girls loves watching it stitch. The machine always behaves when she is there. :-)
Dennis, your turn will come! (& anyone else who has not experienced this phenomenon)

Yes , mine does!! If I am serging or sewing then my embroidery machine does nor have my full attention and an all H--- breaks loose. Kay