Baby Lock Maria (Previous Model) (BL23A) Instruction and Reference Guide - Manual (Page 53)

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Insert fabric under the foot.
Turn the handwheel slowly toward you with
your right hand until the needle goes down and
continue turning handwheel until the
take-up lever is at its highest position.
Remove the fabric to the left to draw both
threads to the left.
Insert the garment under the foot, and lower
the needle at the starting point.
Then lower the automatic buttonhole foot.
D Buttonhole lever
Sew slowly and stop the machine at the
starting point when a buttonhole is completed.
* The front bartack and left row first, then the back
bartack and right row.
E Starting point
Cut both the needle and bobbin threads
leaving about 10 cm ( 4´´ ) thread ends.
Draw the needle thread to wrong side of fabric
by pulling the bobbin thread.
Then, knot the threads.
Insert a pin inside the bartack.
Then cut the opening with a seam ripper.
Take care not to cut the stitches.
To make the next buttonhoie.
To continue the same size of buttonhole
stitching, turn the pattern selector dial to
Reset, then back to Buttonhole again as
shown.
Now, simply step on the foot control to sew an
identical buttonhole.
When buttonhole sewing is finished, push
the buttonhole lever upward as far as it will go.
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