Turning Outside Corners. Simplicity Serge Pro SW432, imagine BLE1AT-2

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Turning Outside Corners

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1. Stitch along one edge until you reach the corner. Take one stitch off the edge of the fabric (fig. A). (As you approach the edge, you may want to stop and manually turn the handwheel towards you.)

2. Raise the needle(s) to the highest position.

3. Clear the stitch fingers, and rotate the fabric to reposition the needle at the previous row of stitching (fig. B). Gently pull up on all threads to remove slack and resume stitching (fig. C).

Note: A loose thread loop at the corner is caused by too much slack in the needle thread when clearing the stitch fingers. Try again, turning corners takes a little practice!

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Turning Inside Corners

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1. Reinforce loosely woven fabrics at the corner with staystitching on the conventional sewing machine. Clip to the corner (fig. A).

2. Align the fabric edge with the blade, and stitch until the blade reaches the corner, not the needles. Don't cut into the corner (fig. B).

3. Lower the needle(s) to anchor the fabric.

4. Raise the presser foot and straighten out the fabric, forming a pleat at the corner (fig. C).

5. Be sure the marked stitching line is straight, then continue serging the remaining edge. When done correctly, the pleat will disappear after stitching (fig. D).

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