Brother NX-250 Operation Manual page 71

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UTILITY STITCHES
6 Place the button into button-sewing foot "M".
a
1 Button
The button is held in place.
• When attaching four-hole buttons, first sew
the two holes closest to you. Then, slide the
button so that the needle goes into the two
holes toward the rear of the sewing machine,
and then sew them in the same way.
Turn the handwheel toward you
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(counterclockwise) to check that the needle
correctly goes into the two holes of the button.
If it seems as if the needle will hit the button,
remeasure the distance between the holes in
the button. Adjust the stitch width to the
distance between the button holes.
CAUTION
●
When sewing, be sure that the needle
does not touch the button, otherwise the
needle may bend or break.
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8 Start sewing.
Set the sewing speed controller to the left (so
that the speed will be slow).
The sewing machine automatically stops
after sewing reinforcement stitches.
• If additional strength is needed to secure the
button, perform the button-sewing operation
twice.
9 Use scissors to cut the upper thread and the
bobbin thread at the beginning of the stitching.
Pull the upper thread at the end of the stitching
to the wrong side of the fabric, and then tie it
with the bobbin thread.
0 When you are finished attaching the button,
slide the drop feed lever to
as seen from the rear of the machine) to raise
the feed dogs.
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1 Drop feed lever
(as seen from the rear of the machine)
Memo
● The feed dog position switch is normally set
to the right side (as seen from the rear of
machine).
● The feed dogs come up when you start
sewing again.
(to the right