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15669 Bhndstitching Machine Setting: Dial A=1 to 2 Lever B=q Stitch Length: Maximum Dial C=0 Lever E=0 Hemming dresses and skirts by hand is a laborious task. You can do it easily on your Pfaff on medium and heavy fabrics. Use zigzag foot No. 44088 with blindstitch guide No. 46669, which you can buy at your Pfaff store. Attach the guide so that its vertical flange goes through the sewing foot slot. Use a No. 70 needle, a loose upper tension and thin thread in the needle. Next, follow this procedure: Turn fabric wrong side up. Fold selvaged material once (Fig. 1), unselvaged fabric twice (Fig. 2). It is advisable to press or baste hem. Guide work evenly, holding top hem edge against the vertical flange of the blindstitch guide. Set dial A so that needle takes left stitch exactly in the folded edge and right stitch up to or over the hem edge. When hem is finished, stitches will not be visible on top side. L)JJ Automatic Blindstitching Used for draperies or curtains. Machine Setting: Dial A=0 . Dial D=6 Stitch Length: 1_li/s Lever B=* Lever E=1 . Dial C=1 Blindstitching will be visible on the right side of sheer and filmy fabrics. Therefore these fabrics should be blindstitched using the above setting which results in a number of narrow and one wide zigzag stitch, sewn at regular intervals. Use thread thai matches fabric and fold the hem as illustrated, placing bulk of material on the left side. Run upper fold along right inside edge of foot. 43 R 8000