Cording; Narrow Pleats - Pfaff creative 1472 Instruction Book

Cording
Cording foot
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cording tongue (special acces
sory)
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Needle: Double needle
Cording seams are especially popular as a deco
ration on underwear, dresses, blouses. etc.
Cording sewn with the
cording tongue
Cording is always sewn with two needle threads.
Place a spool of thread on each spool pin and
secure it in position with the corresponding
unwinding disc Place one thread to the right, and
the other to the lett of ddc "C" (Fig. 3a) Then con
tinue threading the machine, as usual. Do not
twist the two threads. Thread each thread separa
tely through thread guides and the needle eye
(Fig 3h)
The thread tension should be adapted to every
fabric type. The tighter the tension, the more pro
minent the cording appears. Fig 1 shows how the
cording tongue is engaged
For thin materials, the cording foot with 7
grooves, the small cording tongue and a double
needle of up to 2 mm are used.
For thicker materials, the cording foot with 5
grooves, the large cording tongue and the neces
sary double needle are used.
If you wish to sew several cordings beside each
another, ue the grnoves of the cording foot
(Fiq 2) For greater distances we recommend
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Inn edge guide
Cording sewn
with gimp thread
prog
00
-
Needle: Double needle
Lift the needle plate off and pass the gimp thread
through the round hole "A". After that re insert the
needle plate Notch 'B" is the entry groove (Fig 1)
Place the roll of gimp thread in front of the
machi no
Place the beginninq of the gimp thread together
with needle thread and bottom threads to the rear
under the cording foot. Move the detachable
work support against the machine. Choose a
gimp thread of the same colour as the outer
fahric.
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E1
00
KK
3—5 OA
Needle 130/705-1-1, size 80
Iron the first fold line and stitch at the required
width Prepareandstitchthefurtherfoldgroupsin
the same manner (Fig 3)
For stitching down wider pleats we recommend
using the edge guide. Adjust the edge guide to the
required width GuIde the material so that fold
runs along the edge guide (See page 100)
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