Selecting stitches is just as easy as turning a knob.
You have your hand wheel and your stitch selection knob down here.
What we're going to do is as we turn it, you'll get a different stitch lite up in your machine.
Right now, it just shows a stitch number two is a straight stitch.
Up top here are all your numbered stitches, you have 28 stitches, you have a row one and
a row two and row two starts with an S. These are for the stretch stitches.
I'll show you how to get to those.
Another thing you have is the letter of the presser foot needed for these stitch so it
recommends J and L and D for the different stitches that are built into your machine.
If I want to do a straight stitch, I can use stitch number two and then the stitch length
is adjusted by this knob.
If I want a long stitch or if I'm sewing on thicker fabric, turn it to four that's going
to sew really long and I can turn this while I sew.
No problem.
Now if I get to zero that stitches all in the same hole so don't stay there very long
but I can turn that and go like that.
All right.
Then if I wanted to do a zigzag, I want to make sure my needle is not in my fabric.
If I'm turning the knob here make sure your needle is at the highest position.
Stitch three is your zigzag so you can have a length and now we can have a width.
Width is noted by the little zigzag picture up here.
Zero means well, no width, you'll get a straight stitch, sure enough.
If I make this go all the way up to five, five millimeters wide is the widest zigzag
this will go and I can change it as I sew from zero to five and back.
Just depending on what you want.
Then if I want a satin stitch.
A satin stitch is a zigzag really close together, it's great for applique.
I'm going to leave the width at three, three and a half, somewhere in there and I'm going
to start to shorten the stitch length as I sew, down to this kind of button hole area,
which by the way, button holes are a satin stitch.
As long as my fabric is still moving forward, here we go, probably can get that even a little
closer together.
We're right at the end of the fabric, bring my needle all the way up.
I'll show you what we're looking at here.
As I made my stitch length shorter, I brought it closer and closer for a pretty satin stitch.
Now there is a foot with your machine that would be best suited for this stitch, see
that little cut out on the back side that is foot, that is foot letter, it is not letter,
it is just a foot with a cut out.
I call it a satin stitch foot because it really makes sure that you don't pile up as you get
stitches really, really close together.
Now the other thing that you can do is if we want stitches from the bottom row, 17 through
28, you're going to notice that the S is for stretch and there's even a little S right
here.
You're going to take your stitch length knob, go below zero and keep turning it.
Turn it, turn it, until you get to S and you'll notice your stitches will be indicated in
green so then it'll show 18, 19, and all the way up into those stitches.
Those, all you have to do is set the width, usually the widest width of stitch with the
five will be great and then those stitches are ready to go.
You don't have stitch length adjustment for stretch stitches.
It's just super easy to do there.
Now back to, I'm going to take you back to a straight stitch.
Here's a stretch stitch by the way.
You do this with some decorative thread, some variegated thread and it's no longer a utility
stitch, it's a decorative stitch.
I always recommend, take some time to sew out all your stitches and do it in some funky
colors and I think you'll notice you have a lot more decorative stitches that could
be used then you think.
I'm going to take you back for the S of stretch, back up to row one or the first row and so
I'm going to set my stitch length to two and a half and my stitch is stitch two, which
is your straight stitch.
Now there's one other thing that's you're going to notice when you're on a straight
stitch there's a little oval with a dot, this dot right now is over here on the left side
and when I'm at zero that oval has a dot in the center that is for needle position.
You have needle positions from center all the way over to far left, depending on where
you need to stitch within your project, you can move your needle to the left or to the
center.
If you're at five, leftover from a zigzag, you'll notice your needle's hanging over to
the side when you go back to a straight stitch, that's way.
Move it to zero for a straight stitch, center needle position for probably most of what
you're working with.