Pfaff creative 7510 Owner's Manual - Page 93

[ [ [ L [ Smocking Smocking is a technique with which several seams sewn parallel to each other produce a gathering effect which is mainly used for children's wear and corsetry. There are different techniques: 1> Smocking with gimp thread (non-elastic) Prog. 14 or 18 For beautiful smocking effects you will need two and one half to three times the desired finished width of fabric. The smocked section is usually made before the rest of the garment Light, firm materials such as batiste or fine linen are best suited for this techni que. Draw a straight line on the fabric as a guide line for the first gathering seam using a disappea ring-ink marker or almost invisible non-greasy chalk Attach the appliqué foot (special accessories) and the edge guide bar. Place the fabric to be smocked. face side down under the sewing foot and introduce the gimp thread under the sewing foot in such a way that it runs exactly along the groove in the foot Now sew the first row of smocking and leave a tail of about 10 cm (4-5 inches) of thread protruding from the beginning and end of the seam. Then place the edge guide bar at the desired distance to the first row (approx. 2-2.5 cm 1/2-3/4 of an inch). Varying the distance between rows creates different gathering effects. Now sew the next row of smocking using the edge guide bar on the first row as a guideline. Continue in this manner until you have sewn as many rows as the design requires. Then carefully pull the ends of the gimp thread and gather the fabric uniformly over its entire width. 2) Smocking with elastic thread Prog. 00 For this technique, elastic thread is wound onto the bobbin without tension. The needle thread is a regular sewing or embroidery thread. Since elastic threads are much thicker than normal bobbin threads, the tension on the bobbin case must be set extremely loose. However, the tighter you set the bobbin-thread tension, the greater the gathering effect you obtain. We recommend that an additional bobbin case be used for this work For this kind of smocking, fine and light materials such as light-knit fabric, silk or satin are also suitable. • Always sew a test seam first, to test the level of gather. • Draw the first line on the face side of the fabric and then sew along this line. • The following seams can be sewn at one sewing- foot width to the first row. • When sewing several, parallel seams, the mate rial must be stretched to its original length to avoid uneven gathers. • Tie off the threads on the reverse side. [I [ [I [I [I [I I [ [ I II II I I I 90 I