SEWING BUTTONHOLES AND BUTTONS
4SEWING BUTTONHOLES AND BUTTONS
Making a Buttonhole
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Memo
●We recommend that you practice making a buttonhole on a scrap piece of fabric before you try it on an actual garment.
●When making buttonholes on soft fabrics, place a stabilizer material on the underside of the fabric.
1Using tailor’s chalk, mark the position and length of the buttonhole on the fabric.
2Attach the buttonhole foot and push the frame back until it stops with the plastic insert at the front of the frame.
CAUTION
●If the presser foot is not installed with the correct orientation, the needle may strike the presser foot, which may bend or break the needle and cause injury. (See page 9 for the correct presser foot orientation.)
3You need to sew the front bar tack first. Line the bar tack mark under the center of the presser foot and match it up to the two lines on the presser foot.
■Making a Buttonhole
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1.Set the pattern selection dial to ‘a’.
2.Lower the presser foot and sew 5 to 6 stitches.
3.Stop the machine when the needle is at the left side of the stitches and then raise the needle from the material.
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1.Turn the pattern selection dial to ‘b’.
2.Sew the length of the tailor’s chalk line.
3.Stop the machine when the needle is at the left side of the stitch and then raise the needle.
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1.Turn the pattern selection dial to ‘c’ (same position as in step 1).
2.Sew 5 to 6 stitches.
3.Stop the machine when the needle is at the right side of the stitch and then raise the needle from the material.
Step 4 (Right side)
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1.Set the pattern selection dial to ‘d’.
2.Sew the right side until the needle reaches the stitches sewn in step 1.
■Securing the Stitching and Cutting the Buttonhole
1To secure the stitching, turn the material 90 degrees counterclockwise and sew straight stitches to the end of the front bar tack of the buttonhole.
2Remove the material from the machine. We recommend that you put pins across both ends of the buttonhole to prevent the stitches from being cut.
1Front of chalk mark
2 Red lines
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