Straight stitch setting: ak 3 – SINGER 431 User Manual
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CORDED SEAMS
Straight stitch setting: AK
3
Throat plate: General purpose or straight stitch
Cording foot
The corded seam is a professional treatment for
slip covers, children's clothes, blouses and lingerie.
When cording a seam the cording foot is usually
adjusted to the right of the needle so that the bulk
of the work will fall to the left.
Attach the piping to the right side of a single
seam edge, with the same stitch length used to
make the piping (page 66). Guide the edge of the
foot next to the cord, but do not crowd.
Place the attached piping over the second seam
edge, and pin or baste together.
Keep the first stitching uppermost as a guide and
position the seam under needle. Stitch, this time
crowding the foot against the cord.
This method produces evenly joined seam edges
and tightly set welting.
Curved seams are corded as easily as straight
seams, except that a shorter stitch length is used.
Since the seam allowance of the welting is bias, it
is not difficult to shape it to the seam.
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