The Gathering Attachment; Gathering Fabric - Bernina 1200DA Owner's Manual

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• Owner's manual pg.___

• Thread the serger for a 4-thread balanced overlock stitch.

• Adjust as indicated on the LCD screen. Fine tune as needed.

• Raise the upper knife and adjust the cutting width to 3mm.

• Locate and loosen the silver fixing screw in front of the rolled hem stitch selection dial.

• Slip the Gathering Attachment on to the fixing screw and metal post directly behind the fixing

screw. Hint: Attach the horseshoe-shaped slot over the screw and then rotate the attachment to

lock over the metal post. Tighten the fixing screw.

• Set cutting width at 2mm (normal) and lower the upper knife into cutting position.

• Locate and adjust the differential feed dial to 2.

• Using a fabric marker, divide the fabric into 3 equal sections along a 15" edge.

• Turn the handwheel to lower the needles. (This also lowers the feed dog.)

• Raise the presser foot and insert the fabric under the Gathering Attachment, up to the needles. The

fabric should be under the foot against the stitch plate.

• Lower the presser foot and serge to the first mark.

• Adjust the stitch length to 4mm and serge to the second mark.

• Increase the tension on both needles to 7.

• Serge to the end of the fabric.

• Mark the sample: with Differential Feed; with Differential Feed & SL4; with Differential Feed, SL4 &

tightened needle tensions.

• Mount the sample on the following page.

• Return all settings to normal.

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