Time to get into cover stitch.
I want to show you in your manual how you're going to read through the little guide that
comes with the machine.
First off, you're going to find the stitch.
We're going to do cover stitch triple.
It does show you which page if you want to follow for paths of threading, what it's going
to look like, what fabrics it can be done on.
First thing you need to do is turn the machine to J. That’s right over here.
Go ahead and turn it all the way from A to J, and then notice this.
This is where the needles that we'll be using.
We're going to be using the 3 needle holes that are much more forward on our serger than
the serger ones that are kind of the 2 that are in the back.
C,D, and E are what we're using.
The next one is stitch length.
Our stitch length knob is here.
Cutting width is going to be disengaged.
That's why there's a little dash.
This is differential feed, just leave that at normal.
That's way back on this part here.
I'm going to set that at normal.
The stitch finger is going to be pulled to R. I'm going to show you why when we go to
the next setting.
This is for the 2-thread converter.
It's says no because of course we're not using that at all.
Then, we need to set up from serger to cover stitch.
The last part is with which colors we will be threading.
For example for all 3-thread cover stitch or triple stitched, we will be using all 4
threads, but the blue is going to follow the navy blue threading path into the cover stitch
looper area.
I'm going to show you how that works.
As we go through, we're going to go through all of these in each different videos.
The cover stitch wide, cover stitch narrow, and the wonderful chain stitch.
I'm going to set this aside.
The last thing we did was a 2-thread surged edge.
So, I'm going to just take all of the threads out of the machine because we're not going
to be using them in this particular area at all.
This is a stitch looper, the blue one.
We're going to put the ... We have a left needle, middle needle, and the final right
needle.
We'll actually be using all 4 of those threads.
Now, I'm going to zoom us in so we can actually see where these needles are going to be and
then where our loopers are.
I'm going to just lift up presser foot and pull out any remaining threads, and then,
we are going to set up for the cover stitch.
We're going to go ahead, same path from down below just with one extra note, and I'm going
to go ahead and do this right now while we're zoomed out, is to the right needle that we'll
be using is a green thread.
Green thread is typically our upper looper, but did you notice there's a little silver
bar right here, and that's because it's going to travel here, and it's going to come over
as a needle thread this time.
The tensions of course for this is changed because we're on J for these to be needle
tensions and this to be a cover stitch looper.
If you notice right now we have one needle that's left from the serger side of this,
and that's way back here for A and B, but when we do cover stitch you notice these three
long ovals, that is where the needles for cover stitching are going to be placed.
That will give you a reference point.
We'll loosen these.
I'm going to move this one up.
It doesn't matter which needle you put in first here.
If this needle doesn't ever want to come out, loosen A and that will drop it out because
sometimes one tightens the other a little bit more, and it just doesn't release.
I am going to turn those nice and tight.
When I go to go back to surging, I will want to make sure that I loosen those quite a bit.
So, what I do is I put the needle down into one of those ovals.
Right now, I'm in the right oval.
I'm going to slide that up, loosen ... That's E.
This needle is for E. Slide that one in and slide down.
You probably could have ... noticing "Oh gosh.
This takes a lot of changing over to do cover stitch."
To tell you the truth, usually when you do cover stitch for something, it's the last
thing you do.
It's the hems.
It's done at the end.
So, do all your surging first, and then, maybe do all the surging on 2 or 3 projects.
Then, when you switch to cover stitch, you go ahead and cover stitch all the hems on
all the projects.
It's saving you a lot of time than going back and forth 3 different times.
I am getting out one more needle from my little accessory box.
That one is going here.
You're noticing that the tips of these needles are all at different heights.
This last one here, this is the far left one.
That one is the highest.
You'll also see that these needles have a place that you'll actually be able to see
right up here at the top.
They have a little home.
You can see them when they come up, so you know you have them as high as they are supposed
to go.
I am one, two, three kind of at an angle from left down to right, and now, I'm going to
go ahead and get this threaded.
I happen to have the green one already in, so we're going to just go ahead and thread
the green one first, and then, we'll do the other ones.
Let me do this.
Let me go ahead and do a green one because this is pretty similar to the serger part.
We'll use the needle threader.
Hallelujah for a needle threader when we have three needles to do.
I tend to use more of a 2-thread cover stitch most of the time, but it definitely is nice
to know how to do it with all three.
For the cover stitch looper, we're going to go ahead and start with that one over here.
We're just coming straight down just like normal, but this time instead of following
the light blue paths, we're going to follow the navy blue paths.
They are very similar, but they are more, you might say, in front of everything.
Here's where we're going to go.
Let me just make sure that there's nothing ... one more in here that I just can't see,
there sure is.
It's right back in this area.
This is the cover stitch looper.
The cover stitch looper is ... You never thread that when you're actually in the serger mode
because you're threading the two that are closer to where the needles are.
You're always threading the loopers closest to where the needles.
Now that we have the needles up front, that's why we will be using the cover stitch looper
that's closest to them.
There's just one, so it is kind of like a lower looper.
Where is that little guide?
Here he is.
Here is one way back underneath.
That one is going to be hard to show on the camera.
Definitely find where that is in your book, and then, this ... one also has so we're going
to go ahead and thread the eye of the cover stitch looper first.
There is a place in the back just like your lower looper that needs to be threaded, so
we're going to go here.
This little lever down right here is going to take that thread to the back.
Hook it in to that little arm with the little V cut, lift it all the way back until it stops,
and once again, that thread will lay in that groove for the lower, cover stitch looper.
Here's what you're going to do.
This will look a little funny, but it works.
All you need to do is take your scissors and cut the thread about 3" to 4" from the tip,
and you are going to just leave that dangle for when we go to start.
I'm going to just go ahead, and I'm going to stop talking, and we are going to re-thread
or continue threading the other two needles just like before.
I just noticed I threaded my last needle with my presser foot down, so I'm going to go ahead
and kind of floss the thread back and forth and make sure it sinks far enough down into
those tension desks.
When you're sewing and before we start, we're going to just have these individual threads.
You can have them ... I'm going to just put them all out to the sides.
Those are the three needle threads.
We've got our cover stitch looper thread just hanging down below.
We're ready to test this out.
I'm going to just take the fabric and fold it in half.
We're going to just run a quick test mode here setting the fabric.
Did you notice I put the fabric all the way in so the needles come down on fabric.
This is more like a sewing machine now.
So, fabric and needles are always together.
We're going to stop when we get to the end, but let's just go ahead and do some stitching
here.
Stitch length is usually moved to about three.
It just makes it a little easier for what you're doing.
Here's a trick for getting it out.
Stop before you go off the edge.
That's going to be best.
As your needles come up, bring them all the way to the highest position, lift up your
foot, and I usually take some small pair of scissors, and I'm going to slide them underneath
the needles towards me.
With the presser foot up, the tensions are released.
It might still be a little bit tight, but give them a little pull, and I've got all
three of the threads here.
I'm going to clip them.
When I clip them that releases them.
Now, my lower, or my cover stitch looper, is still underneath and connected, so I will
have to do that, but do you know what this does is it actually allows an connects and
locks this last stitch down here with that little trick of swiping those needle thread
towards you, snipping them, and then pulling then pulling it out the back.
Love it.
Here we have ... We have our cover stitch in 3 colors.
I kind of like that.
We have the yellow, the red, and the green as our needles, and then our cover stitch
is on the back.
Now, let's take a look at how this is going to actually work when you're doing a hem.
Take your fabric.
You'll have pressed this in place so it doesn't move.
If you want to pin it, you can do that.
You do need to sew from the top side.
You're like "Wait, how do I know if I'm where I need to be?"
First off, you'll actually be able to feel it.
When you slide it underneath, you can feel where the thick area is and where that bump
is where it goes down to a single layer.
You'll also have the throat plate with lines here.
If you know you have a 2"-line, you can set this up for 2" and follow along.
Next, with your fingers in the guides of these little marks on the front of the foot, you
can feel these little bumps.
Since we have all three of the needles in running here, I want to run the raw edge underneath
right between where all the needles are.
That way, we are covering that edge.
So, we'll sew all the way to the end, bring our needles up, lift our presser foot up,
take our scissors, swipe it underneath, clip all three loops, pull out the back, and one
cutter back there.
Now, see how we've covered up the edge.
That is definitely what it's all about as a cover stitch.
If this was stretchy fabric, we would have the beautiful stretch that the cover stitch
gives.