Hemstitching - Pfaff Expression 2034 Instruction Manual

Hemstitching
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This is a technique everyone recognizes
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but was
previously only embroidered by hand! With your Expression
you can produce hemstitching much quicker and easier.
Special hemstitches No. 24, 25 and 26 are built into your
machine. By changing the stitch length and width you can
achieve different effects. Use a wing needle for hemstitching.
(A normal needle is only used for very light fabrics
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size
80.) Hemstitching is most successful on woven natural
fabrics from which single threads can be easily pulled.
Embroidery and darning thread, particularly cotton, are very
suitable. With the hemstitches on your Expression, various
techniques can be applied.
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TradAtional hemstitching
• Use stitches No. 24, 25 and 26 to create lovely
hemstitched holes.
• Sew the appropriate program
on
a piece of test fabric.
For pulled thread hemstitching:
• Count the threads of the fabric within the area of the
sewn pattern. Adjust the pattern width so the needle is
not piercing a thread to be pulled, but falling to the side
of the threads of your fabric, This will allow you to easily
remove the threads within the pattern area.
• Pull 1 3 threads out of the fabric to the right and left
of the pattern.
• Overstitch the remaining threads with the selected
program. The needle must enter the pulled threads on
both sides close to the edges.
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