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Contents
Check chart
Knowing Parts and features
Setting
Needle Contro, stitch selector Indicator
Knowing Your Sewing Machine
Back View
Solid State Foot Control
Frontview
Getting Ready to SEW
SETrlNG UP Your Machine
Push Before Turning Dial
Electronic Needle Control
Stitch Selector
Needle stops precisely in up or down position
Winding Bobbin
Putt out to disengage
Push
Drop-in bobbin Makes this a simple Sure operation
Threading the Bobbin Case
Now quick and easy
Threading the Rest of Your Machine
Upper threading
Needle threading
Checking for Correct Tension of Thread
Thread Tension
Thread Tension Straight Stitching
Zigzag Stitching
Your Size 14 Needle is BASIC., o
Changing Needles
Needleplates
To Replace the Needleplate Insert
Kenmore needles are Recommended for all Kenmore machines
Choosing
Right Needle For the Fabric
Fabric is the KEY to Needle and Thread Choice
Straight and Zigzag Sevng
Your Foot Controls Speed
Presser Foot
Applies Pressure
Feed Dogs Keep the Fabric
Moving
Keep YOU on Target
Swing UP For Free ARM
Sewing
Here are Your Basic Seings for Straight Stitching
Easy to SET for ALL Straight Stitch I NG
Stitch length is your
Key decision
Backtacking Crossing seams oo Turning square corners
Making Permanent Seams Truly Permanent
Handsome
TOP-STITCHING
New free Basting method for Very long stitches
Temporary
Sewing By Machine
PIN Basting STAY-STITCHING NOW Simple
For easy zigzag Sewing
Zigzag Stitching
Expands Your Skills
Many plain Fancy uses
Basic zigzag
Special Edge Stitch Settings Stitch Selector -- il
Change Stitch Length Width For Strength For Variety
Most important use for
Built-in Blindstitch is a reai time-saver
Heres how to set your machine
Hemming Can Simplified Also using the special Kenmore
Blind HEMMING-- a Basic Stitch That Adds a Finishing Touch
No Presser Foot
Setting your machine
Mending Darning By Machine
So much easier Takes little practice
To reinforce points of strain on any garment
Fagoting
BAR-TACKING
Decorative stitch that also is good for mending knits
To support and shape edges and details
Zigzag Presser Foot
Zigzag
Your Kenmore built-in system is the only one that can be
Using Your BUILT-IN Buttonhole System
Buttonholes and Fastners
Its great for Making single Extra-long buttonholes
Get acquainted with whats in your
Using Your Special Buttonhole Attachment
Another important buttonhole accessory
It wilt become
Buttonhole
Start with the ones You like in the chart below
Your NEW Buttonhole Skills
Round END
Settings for round-end, keyhole, eyelet
Worked Buttonholing
An art by our Grandmothers Now easy to do By machine
Darning Plate
Bound buttonhole settings
PURL-EDGING For That Professional Touch
Tips on Making Bound Buttonholes
Cording is Simple with Same Zipper Settings
Zippers That are SMOOTH-WORKING Good Looking
Home-sewn zippers can look as nice as those on ex
Makes job easy
MACHINE-SEWED BUTTONS? YES
Kenmore
Clear plastic foot
For seams That need to stretch With the fabric
Setting Your Machine for Straight Stretch Stitching
Straight Stretch Stitching
Stretch and Special Stitches
Stretch
RICK-RACK STR Etch
Used most often for Top-stitching
Youll love this For skirt-bands Lingerie
Feather Stretch
Elastic Stretch
Overcast Stretch
Stitches Can be
HOW to GET the HAND-SMOCKED Effect by Machine
Paris Point Stretch
Some Favorite
Finishing and Personal Touches
Satin Stitches AS the Professionals
USE Them
Machine EMBROIDERY? Custom Designs By MACHINE?
Here are Some SINGLE-NEEDLE Designs Youll Like to USE
Only your fancy is needed for This fanciwork
Weveadded an embroidered touch to a bias tape at
These Kenmore Special Aids
NOW Narrow Hemming
Is Easy
Foot
Most USEFUL, Versatile Accessory
Your Kenmore Edgestitcher Makes Many Trims Possible
Even Feed
Edging
Problem FABRICS? TOO Soft to FINISH? Here are Happy Endings
Handsome Shell Stitching
Lovely Lettuce
Orderly rows Uniformly spaced
Easier with Your Kenmore
Guide for
Quilting the Kenmore WAY
Suspected Problem
Bent needle plate Hand wheel not returned to
Incorrect thread tensions
Keeping IT Clean
Cleaning Your
Light JOB
To Keep Your
Sewing Bright
TOP Cover Plate
Oiling Your
Keeps IT Smooth Running
Oiling Under
Accessories
Needles
Presser Feet
ITEMS
Other Vital
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