Make buttonholes with your machine – SINGER W1563 User Manual
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Make Buttonholes With Your Machine
First bo sure ZIG21AG Needle Plate is on maciune. Next replace any other
Foot ■with, the BUTTONHOLE Foot (look left.) Then follow these directions
in making a test buttonhole in scrap fabric.
Start by marking fabric ■with tailor chalk
or basting stitches, both ends of button
holes you want to make, exactly where
you want them.
To make buttonholes in sheer or very soft fabrics place
tarlatan or blank newsprint type paper under fabric. Tesur
away the paper after buttonhole is completed.
T
STEP 1
. Set Needle Path Selector at LEFT
position. Set ZZ Width (white area at 5 on left
side - - about 2 on right. Set Stitch LENGTH
dial at .'iWVWWi .. (not far around from its 0
marking).
Turning
machine
wheel
by
hand,
lower needle into fabric where you have mar
ked the starting end of buttonhole. Now sew
slowly to your mark at the other end and you
■will have made one side of buttonhole. Stop
machine -with needle do-wn in fabric at right
side of ZZ stitching completed.
STEP 2.
Raise Presser Foot and using needle
in fabric cis a pivot turn the fabric completely
around, end for end. Now turn Feed Teeth
Knob to DN position. Then lower Presser Foot
and raise needle. Next move ZZ Width Lever
to left and hold it at S on dial while sewing
four or five stitches.
STEP 3.
Raise needle out of fabric and turn
FEEDING teeth Knob back to HI position. Now
sew second side of buttonhole until it reaches
mark on fabric at right side of ZZ stitching
just finished.
STEP 4.
Turn Feed Teeth Knob to DN position.
With Presser foot still do'wn RAISE needle out
of fabric. Move ZZ Width Lever to left and
hold on 5 while you sew four or five stitches
to complete bar-tacking. Leave Presser Foot
do-wn and raise needle out of fabric.
STEP 5,
Spin right side ZZ Width roller to 0
on dial. Then make two or three stitches to
tie
threads
securely
and
prevent
ravelling.
Cut buttonhole open with a buttonhole cutter
or seam ripper, being very careful to avoid
cutting any stitching. Turn Feed Teeth Knob
to HI position ready for you next project.
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