Brother PC 8500 manual Buttonhole Stitches, 3 4 8 9

BUTTONHOLE STITCHES

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Setting Up

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1	Suits, overcoat	7	Thin and medium fabric
2	Jeans, trousers	9	(for horizontal holes)	Sewing
4	Thin or medium fabric		Thick coats
3	Thick coats	8	Jeans, trousers

5Stretch fabric with coarse 0 The first step in making a

weaves	bound buttonhole.
6 Stretch fabric	Utility Stitches

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1. Mark the positions of the buttonholes on the fabric.

*The maximum buttonhole length is 3 cm (1-3/16”) (total of diameter + thickness of button).

*Thick thread (#30) cannot be used in with the “ ” and “ ” patterns.

2. Draw out the button holder plate and insert the button.

1Button holder plate

3.Raise the presser foot and adjust the fabric so that the red mark on the foot is over the starting mark of your buttonhole. Lower the presser foot into position.

1Mark on fabric for buttonhole position

2 Red mark on presser foot

*After the presser foot lever has been lowered,

set the presser foot so that there is no gap

behind the section marked with an “A”, otherwise

the size of the stitch will not be correct. To do A this, push the presser foot towards the back of

the machine as shown in the left figure.

*Pass the thread underneath the presser foot.

4.Lower the buttonhole lever and position it behind the metal bracket on the buttonhole foot.

1Metal bracket on the buttonhole foot

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