2
Buttonholes
• Pattern
B
• Stitch Balance Dial: Neutral position
•
Buttonhole
Always make a test buttonhole on a sample in
your fabric. Be sure to duplicate
garment and include interfacing.
If the two lines of stitching in your sample are
of unequal density refer to the next page.
Place work under buttonhole foot, align centre
marking of buttonhole
and align
horizontal
needle.
Step 1: Bar Tack
Turn buttonhole
tion needle
and stitch the first bar tack taking at least four
stitches
Step 2: Side Stiching
Raise
whell toward you.
Turn buttonhole
to the end of buttonhole
c
Group Selector:
/
Foot
A with red line on foot,
end
marking
of buttohole
line
on
foot.
Do
FOUR-STEP
BUTTONHOLING
dial clockwise to step 1. Posi-
in fabric
at point
A. Lower
ending at point B.
needle
above
fabric
dial clockwise to step 2. Stitch
at point C.
thickness
of
B with
not
lower
the
the foot
by turning
hand
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