3. LEARN TO USE THE CONTROLS

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Your machine has many special features to make your sewing both easy and accurate. Take a minute to look at the three controls that regulate your stitches.

Stitch Selector

Your sewing machine can make a variety of stitches. They are pictured on the Stitch

Selector Dial. In addtion, there are three buttonhole steps pictured on the dial also.

NOTE: Beginning on page 24, you will find detailed instructins on the use of each

stitch.

Orange patterns_

Blue buttonhole steps

Blue buttonhole

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Orange pattern

Green patterns

- Yellow patterns

Stitch Length Control

To lenghten a stitch, turn the dial toward you. To shorten a stitch, you turn the dial away from you. You will see 5 numbers on the dial. These tell you the number of stitches per inch when you are sewing.

NOTE: Study the orange, green, yellow and blue sections on this control. These

are recommended ranges of stitch length and color-coded to the stitches pictured on the Stitch Selector.

The orange line between 0 and 24 is the setting used for the shortest stitches such as in satin stitching.

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Kenmore 10101, 14502, 14501, 14572, 14401, 12621, 14571, 11101, 12551 owner manual Stitch Selector, Stitch Length Control

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