SINGER 1030 Creative Touch - Manual (Page 36)

chainstitching
Single-thread chainstitching looks like regu­
lar straight stlching on top but is a series of in­
terlocking loops on the underside of the
fabric. The stitches are produced by the nee­
dle thread alone so you do not need a bobbin
thread or a bobbin. Because the stitches are
formed by a single thread, the interlocked
loops ravel easily, allowing the entire line of
stitching to be removed with just a pull on the
thread end.
Preparing Machine
Threading Take-up Eyelet
Finger
of
Insert
Too Little Tension
. Correct Tension
Adjusting Tension
The straight stitch needle plate, packed in
your accessory set, is also used for
chainstitching. A bobbin-case insert must
also be placed in the machine bobbin case to
produce a chainstitch. The bobbin-case in­
sert No. 171438-451 may be purohased sep­
arately at your local Singer Sewing Center.
Here are a few of the many sewing jobs for
which you will find chainstitching useful.
• Sewing temporary hems and tucks to extend
the life of children’s clothes.
• Hemming curtains and draperies that may
need to be altered.
• Basting for trial fittings.
PREPARATION
1. Raise take-up lever to its highest position
and raise presser foot. Open slide piate.
2. Move bobbin latch to left and remove bob­
bin and plate.
3. Place bobbin-case insert in bobbin oase as
shown, with finger of insert positioned under
the feed.
4. Position straight-stitch plate over holding
pins, making certain that the post of the
bobbin-case insert finger enters the hole in
the plate. Close slide plate.
5. Seleot needle and thread aocording to your
fabrio. Thread the machine in the usual
way except for the take-up lever. For
chainstitching, pass the thread through the
smali eyeiet as shown.
ADJUSTING TENSION
To find the correct tension setting for
chainstitching, set the tension dial on 3 and
make a test sample in your fabric. If the loops
in the ohain on the underside of the fabric are
loose and irregular in size, increase tension.
When the tension is correctly adjusted, the
chain will be flat and smooth and the fabric
unpuckered.
• To increase tension, turn dial to a higher
number.
• To decrease tension, turn dial to a lower
number.
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