Singer 9940 instruction manual Turning Corners, Sewing Heavy Fabric, Seam Guide

C. TURNING CORNERS

1.Stop the machine when you reach a corner.

2.Lower needle into the fabric.

To lower the needle, press the needle up/down

button or turn the handwheel toward you. When you lower the needle by pressing needle up/down button, machine will stop in down position from next stitch.

3. Raise the presser foot.

4. Use the needle as a pivot and turn fabric.

5. Lower the presser foot and resume sewing.

D. SEWING HEAVY FABRIC

When sewing heavy fabrics, the toe end of presser foot tends to lift up and sewing cannot be started smoothly. In such case, set as follows.

1. Raise the presser foot.

2. Push the button located on the right side of general purpose foot and lower the foot.

3. Start sewing.

As presser foot hinge is locked, fabric will be feeded smoothly.

a. The presser bar lifter can be raised 1step higher for placing heavy materials under the presser foot easily.

E. SEWING OVER OVERLAPPED AREAS Guide the fabric with your hand when sewing over overlapped areas.

F. WIDTH OF SEAM ALLOWANCE Guide lines on the needle plate indicate the distance from the center needle positon.

To keep the width of seam allowance, guide fabric edge aligning this guide line.

Seam Guide

Use the seam guide to guide the fabric. Attach the seam guide and screw to the needle plate.

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