Turning Corners; Sewing Heavy Fabric; Sewing Over Overlapped Areas; Width Of Seam Allowance - Singer 9940 Notice D'utilisation

C. TURNING CORNERS
1. Stop the machine when you reach a corner.
2. Lower needle into the fabric.
To lower the needle, press the needle up/down
button or turn the handwheel toward you.
When you lower the needle by pressing needle
up/down button, machine will stop in down
position from next stitch.
3. Raise the presser foot.
4. Use the needle as a pivot and turn fabric.
5. Lower the presser foot and resume sewing.
D. SEWING HEAVY FABRIC
When sewing heavy fabrics, the toe end of presser
foot tends to lift up and sewing cannot be started
smoothly. In such case, set as follows.
1. Raise the presser foot.
2. Push the button located on the right side of
general purpose foot and lower the foot.
3. Start sewing.
As presser foot hinge is locked, fabric will be
feeded smoothly.
a. The presser bar lifter can be raised 1step
higher for placing heavy materials under the
presser foot easily.
E. SEWING OVER OVERLAPPED AREAS
Guide the fabric with your hand when sewing over
overlapped areas.
F. WIDTH OF SEAM ALLOWANCE
Guide lines on the needle plate indicate the
distance from the center needle positon.
To keep the width of seam allowance, guide fabric
edge aligning this guide line.
Seam Guide
Use the seam guide to guide the fabric.
Attach the seam guide and screw to the needle
plate.
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