Pfaff 230-260 Manual - Page 48

- -Z: R 7139 - - - £4088 Btiridslitching 1 Machine Setting: E -0 B -0 C - 3 D - ito 2 Stitch Length: Maximnuns Hemming dresses and skirts by hand is a laborious task. You con do it easily an yourThlaft on medium and heavy fabrics. Use blindstitch guide No. 46669, which you can buy at your Pfa(f store. Use it with zigzag loot Na. 44088 and attach it so that its vertical flange goes through the sew ing toot slot. Use a No. 70 needle, a loose upper tension and thin U thread in the needle. Next follow this procedure: 2 Turn fabric wrong side up. On selvage edge or if bias seam binding is used an edge of hem, told material once (Fig. 1). On unselvaged fabric. told twice (Fig. 2). ft is advisable to pin or baste hem. Guide work evenly, holding tap hem edge against the vertical flange of the blind- stitch guide. Set D so that needle tates felt stitch exactly in tfme folded edge and the rigId stitch over the hem edge. Wfmen hem is finished, stitches will not be visible on top side. r Autoriici tic Bi ,idstitchi rig Used ui draperies or curtains Mactune Setfing : E 1 - B -1 A-6 C-1 Stitch Length: 1/2-2 Bliiidslilcliiiig is used for med urn and heavy fabrics and would be visible on the right side al sheer and hI ray fabrics. I hei etore '4 these Ia brics should be blindstitched with the Automatic so a number of narrow and one wide zigzag stitch are sewn at rag ula r intervals. Use thread that matches fabric and fold the bern as illustrated. Feed fold against left inside edge of foot so that narrow zigzag stitches are made on hem edge and wide stitches pierce fold. Bulky work is placed in machine with bulk ol material to the left of lire needle. Set lever C on "3", /3 R7151 I