Pfaff Freestyle 1527 Owner's Manual - Page 57

Decorative sewing and embividen' lechniques Richelleu this especially artistic form of eyelet and nsert embroidery is easy to sew with your owing machine. Using a magic marker, draw your motif onto the right side of the fabric. Then place two layers of water-soluble Iabilizer underneath the fabric to be ombroidered and hoop both the fabric ond the stabilizer into an embroidery Eyelet embroidery Traditional eyelet embroidery which previously had to be made laboriously by hand can now be made quite easily with the help of an eyelet plate (special accessory). This is very effective on blouses, bed or table linen. Use utility stitches such as the zigzag stitch, blind stitch, or elastic stitch. For classic eyelet embroidery, use stitch E, with a stitch width 3-5 mm. hoop. Insert decorative embroidery foot number 1. Remove the presser foot. Set the presser bar lifter at the darning position (see page 31). k lend more durability to the embroidery, sew all of the contours twice using the straight stitch (stitch length approx. 1 mm). • Place the eyelet plate on the needle plate, making sure pin A fits in the middle cutout of the needle plate. Then push the plate down at the front. 4 hen carefully cut out the fabric 2 mm next to the contour from the areas which are to be hollow. The stabilizer must not move. • Place the marked fabric taut in an embroidery hoop. Cut one or two of the fabric threads and push the fabric over the pin in the eyelet plate. The fabric must fit snugly around the pin. Embroider the contours with a dense • Draw up the bobbin thread and hold it zigzag stitch. for the first few stitches. Finally, simply dissolve the stabilizer Iluece in cold water and your one-of-a kind design is finished. • Stitch around the cut with the selected stitch. It is important to turn the fabric slowly and evenly. The stitches should be very close to each other. • Afterwards secure with straight stitch. 45