Carfully cut open your buttonhole with scissors or a
seam ripper.
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Carefully cut open your buttonhole.
Tip: For ne buttonholes, you can reduce the
buttonhole width with the stitch width dial
(27) down to approx. 3 mm. Use the center
needle position
Standard buttonhole with gimp
thread
To sew especially durable buttonholes,
on heavy fabrics, knits or sportsw ear, w e
recommend using a gimp thread.
On knits the gimp thread is particularly
important to prevent the buttonhole from
stretching.
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Lay the gimp thread over the rear
protrusion A and pass the thread ends
B
underneath the presser foot tow ards
the front.
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Clamp the threads to the left and right
of protrusion B.
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Slide the buttonhole runner as far
forw ards as possible and sew the
buttonhole as described for your select
model.
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Pull the loop of the gimp thread into
the buttonhole and cut the threads.
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