SINGER 513 Stylist - Manual (Page 34)

Horizontal Placement
on Crosswise Grain
Vertical Placement on
Lengthwise Grain
Buttonhole
Length Guide
Markings
Button
Opening
Button
Opening
Length of
Button
Opening
Buttonhole
Stitching
Accurate guideiines are essential to keep
buttonholes a uniform distance from the
faced edge of the garment, evenly spaced,
and on the grain of the fabric. For center
closures, place guidelines as follows :
1. Mark the center line of the garment as
indicated on your pattern. This guide­
line can be hand basted and should
follow a lengthwise fabric thread.
2, Mark a position guideline for each
buttonhole.
® Horizontal button holes are placed
to extend 4 ^-nch beyond the center-
line basting of the garment. Hori­
zontal guidelines for the buttonholes
should follow a crossvi/lse thread
of the fabric and, if basted, be
longer than the finished length of
the buttonhole. Determine the length
of the buttonhole (as described
below) and mark ends of each
buttonhole verticayy.
@ Vertical buttonholes are placed so
that the center-Hine basting of the
garment is in iha center of the
buttonholes. Determine buitonhoie
length and mark ends of each but­
tonhole horszonially across the cen­
ter line and use the cenier-line
basting as a buttonhole guide ’when
stitching.
BOTTONHOLE LENGTH
First, decide how long the button opening
must be. Then, add^V ^nch to the measure­
ment for each bar tack (the closing
stitches at each end of the buttonhole).
To find the length of the button opening,
cut a slit in a scrap of fabric the diameter
of the button you intend to use. Increase
length of opening until button slips
through easily.
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