Pfaff creative 7570 Owner's Manual - Page 114

f Gathering with straight stitch Gathering with elastic threads Program 00 Program 14 If you wish to gather sleeves, skirts, cuffs or va lances, this technique is the easiest and most commonly used. This kind of gathering is particularly suitable for visible, elastic gathering seams on blouse sleeves, waist seams or neck cutouts. On the face side of the fabric mark the lines of On the wrong side of the fabric mark the line of the gathering seams. Sew the first seam holding the gathering seam. When starting the seam let the fabric a little taut as the fabric will gather the needle penetrate into the fabric without low easily at an increased stitch length. Leave about ering the sewing foot. Place the elastic thread 10 cm (4 or 5 inches) of thread protruding at the around the needle so that two threads are over beginning and end of the seam. stitched. Now lower the sewing foot. To obtain neat and even gather you should sew If you use the cording foot for gathering, the two or three gathering seams close to each other elastic threads shoud be inserted into the foot (approx. 0.5 cm = 1/8 of an inch apart> Now from the side and drawn into the grooves. While gather the part by pulling the bottom threads of sewing the gathering seam, make sure that the the seams. You determine the amount of gather elastic thread is not stretched or penetrated by yourself.To avoid thread breakage while pulling the needle. After finishing the gathering seam you C the thread ends, do not use very fine threads. can determine the amount of gather yourself by Distribute the thus produced pleats evenly and pulling the ends of the elastic threads. Tie-off the knot the threads on the wrong side. 4' threads. 112