Combination Stitch - Expressive Stitches; 4-Thread Safety Stitch - Baby Lock evolve BLE8W Instruction And Reference Manual

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4-Thread Safety Stitch

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The 4-thread safety stitch is perfect for all types of woven fabrics ranging from fine to heavy weight fabrics. This
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stitch is designed to seam and overlock the edge in one step, thus creating a garment industry standard safe-
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ty stitch. As well as woven fabrics, the 4- thread safety stitch is for stabilizing knits, sweater knits and long seams
on woven fabrics.
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N 4-thread safety stitch is a combined stitch of a 2-thread overlock using subsidiary looper on the upper looper
and a 2-thread chain stitch. The 4-thread safety stitch itself can be 3 different seam widths, depending on the
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chain/cover stitch needle position.
The varied widths can then work with different types of fabrics.
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For 4-thread Safety Stitch:
1. Use standard blade cover.
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2. Thread the lower and chain loopers.
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3. Thread one chain needle and the O-1 overlock needle (see diagram).
4. Engage the subsidiary looper in the upper looper.
5. Engage the blade to cut the fabric. Set stitch width dial at 7.5.
S 6. Select A on the Stitch Selector.
7. Set Wave Selector Lever on "O".
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* See chart for settings of each size of 4-thread safety stitch.
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