Pfaff 1211 Owner's Manual - Page 7

Drawing up the bobbin thread Thread cutter Before you start sowing, the bobbin thread has to be drawn up through the needle hole. Hold the needle thread a little taut with your left hand. Turn the baiance wheel toward you a full turn until the take-up lever is at its highest point. The thread cutter is located at the back of the Matchmaker sewing foot. When you have finished sewing, pull the work out of the machine toward the back. Place the threads over the thread cutter and pull them downwards to cut them. This causes the needle to move down and bring up the bobbin thread through the needle hole in a loop. Lightly pull the needle thread to draw the bobbin thread up completely. Place both threads back under the sewing foot. II -- fp • • 12 CPFArr) 1212 2 F• _.;■O11.... CO Before you start sewing on your new machine try sewing a piece of scrap material. Place the fabric under the sewing foot. Flick presser bar lifter 2 (see ill.) to its lowest position... and the sewing foot is lowered onto the fabric. To prepare your machine for sewing check the following items even after you have become well acquainted with your Pfaff. • Touch "on-off" button 1 to turn machine on. • Presser bar lifter 2 must be at its lowest position in order to ensure that the sewing foot is down. • Reverse-feed control 3 must be in its hori- zontal position and must show the fl forward-reverse sewing symbol on 1* its top surface. • For straight and zigzag sewing, the functional-stitch mechanism must be disengaged. To make sure it is, push button 4 on the top cover of your machine. • The knob of Ultra-Matic stitch selector 5 must be positioned horizontally with the buttonhole symbol located at the left. • The take-up lever must be at its highest point. 13