SINGER 2001 TouchTronic - Manual (Page 74)

stitch usage: functional and decorative
Many stitches on your new machine have both functionai and decorative appiications. The
foiiowing pages include exampies to illustrate the versatility of these stitches. Though many
stitches can perform in a given application, to avoid repetition oniy one stitch has been used in
each exampie. We, therefore, hope that the exampies provided wiil help you to use your own
creative taients.
FEATHERSTITCH I
I
The featherstitch is an extremely versatile stitch. Use it for stretchable straight
stitch seams in knit and stretch fabric at stitch width 0, and for fagoting, embroider-
ing and quilting. There are numerous applications for the featherstitch. Two of them
y have been provided below.
Fagoting
• stitch: featherstitch $
• Stitch width; programmed or to suit application
or fabric
• Stitch length: programmed
• Stitch balance: programmed or to suit application
or fabric
• General purpose needle plate
• General purpose foot or special purpose foot
The art of joining two pieces of fabric with an
open, iacy decorative stitch is calied fagoting.
You can create this attractive trimming with
the featherstitch. Use it for decorative stretch
seams in bathing suits or for joining together
narrow strips of fabric to make an entire gar­
ment section.
• Turn under (and hem by hand slipstitching)
the raw edges of the fabric strips or seams
to be joined. Press flat or you may zig-zag
raw edges. •
• Baste two fabric edges to be joined onto
tissue paper leaving approximately 1/8-
inch (3mm) gap between the two edges.
Stitch, guiding two fabric edges under the
center of presser foot. Allow the needle to
alternately make a stitch in each fabric strip
and two stitches in the center of the open­
ing. The tissue paper should be gently
pulled off when fagoting is completed.
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