Chapter 7. buttonholes and buttons, Buttonholes, Buttonhole position – SINGER 2001 TouchTronic User Manual
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Chapter 7. Buttonholes and Buttons
buttonholes
Your machine offers you two unique types of
one-step bar tack buttonholes — standard or
shirt-type. The machine produces a but
tonhole which consists of a narrow cording
stitch covered by a wider zig-zag stitch. Al
ways make a test buttonhole duplicating the
number of thicknesses of fabric and interfac
ing if appropriate, to determine which but
tonhole best suits your garment.
BUTTONHOLE POSITION
Center Line
' Buttonhole
Finished
Edge
of Garment
■Diameter of Button
Accurate guidelines are essential to keep buttonholes at a uniform distance from
the edge of the garment, evenly spaced, and on the grain of the fabric.
1. Mark the center line of the garment using hand basting, machine speed basting
or using tailor’s chalk. For machine speed basting information, refer to Chapter 4
Straight Stitching, page 38.
• Be sure that the space from the center line to the finished edge of the garment
is at least equal to three-quarters the diameter of the button. With this spacing,
the button will not extend beyond the edge when the garment is buttoned.
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• Make sure that the center line marking foliows a lengthwise fabric thread.
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