same thing happened to me 2 weeks ago. Bought a black T-shirt, wanted to sew a very nice design on in and in the middle...it got jamed..Nothing else left for me to cut the T-shirt loose..Now I have an unfinished design and a T-Shirt with a hole in it..Don't know what to do..Probably keep it as a test fabric?

My machine behaves but if I leave thats when it acts up. Yes I use tape and or pins depending because I detest the adhesive spray.

Kathy, great TIP - I have never used tape - I generally use pins to secure my shirts done and lots of them - the tape would be a great change. So sorry to hear that you have difficulty but that you had another shirt to use.

I use clips very like plastic bulldog clips,purchased from the poundshop..

I too have been there & done that & yes I have used tape too! good thing it didn't get to far

I HATE that when it happens! grrrrrr I've been using kitchen clips to hold back the fabrics. I'm sorry it happened to you too!

I keep a roll of masking tape and scotch tape in my supplies.

I have been using Chip Clips to hold the rest of the shirt out of the way - so far so good.

clothes pins.

Sorry for your troubles, but it is a good reminder. I use some large plastic clip-type clothespins, or potato chip bag clips, or pins, tape, whatever is handy. But I dare not leave the machine if it's sewing, because my little cat Lucy-Furr is so darned nosy, she'll get up there and get her paw sewn onto the shirt! This is a picture of my little Lucy, you can just see the mischief in her eyes. Hugs, Marji

I use lots of straight pins

Sounds like a great TIP to me.