Kenmore Sears 385.17822 Owner's Manual page 110

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Buttonhole Making (Continued)
4. a. Mark your buttonhole position carefully on the garmenL
b. Placing your garment behind the machine, insert it between the guide plate
and the buttonhole toot as shown.
c. Align marked buttonhole with center marking on buttonhole foot.
d. Une up your fabric edge with the measurement markings on the guide plate
just in front of the buttonhole foot as shown.
e. Pierce the fabric with the needle at the beginning of the buttonhole.
NOTE: If you want your buttonhole to be 1/2 inch from the garment edge, line up
the fabric with the 1/2 inch markings each time you start to sew a
buttonhole.
We recommended the use of interfacing when making buttonholes.
If the fabric does not feed smoothly from the start, increase the stitch
length.
5. a. Lower the buttonhole toQt.
b. Start sewing slowly.
c. Allow the machine to do the work by itself.
('Do not try to guide the fabric.)
d. Stop sewing when the needle returns to the position where it begins.
To release the buttonhole base plate, pull the lever toward you and lift the base
plate off the machine.
Adjusting the stitch density
You may alter the closeness of the stitches by turning the stitch length control
between 3 and 4.
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Stitch lenglh
conlrol 3 tO 4
Fine stitches !or tight
tabtics
Coarse stilches
lot heavy tabbies
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