SINGER 1050 - Manual (Page 49)

stitch centring
•
stitch: stitch desired
• Stitch width: to suit application or fabric
• Stitch length: to suit application or fabric
• General purpose needle plate
• Special purpose foot
• Speed range: MIN. * •
When sewing, it is important to correctly guide the stitches
on your fabric to achieve centred stitching. A line of stitching
is centred when it lies evenly on an imaginary line on the fabric.
To clearly see what stitch centring is, and to practice even
stitch guidance and machine control, try the test below.
Use a light colour upper and lower thread for this test. This
will demonstrate to you how a correctly centred line of stitch­
ing lies on a given line.
• Attach special purpose foot.
Notice that foot is clear plastic for better visibility and has
vertical black line in the centre to guide stitch placement
on fabric.
• Select straight stitch.
• Draw a vertical line on a sheet of paper or use graph paper,
if available.
• Place paper under presser foot with drawn line centred
under black vertical guideline of special purpose foot.
• Lower needle by turning hand wheel toward you, and posi­
tion it on drawn line of paper.
• Lower presser foot.
• Carefully sew along the drawn line on the paper, using
black vertical guideline of foot to guide stitching. Do not
watch needle.
• After you have sewn along the drawn line, carefully remove
paper from under presser foot.
If you have correctly guided the paper while sewing, the
stitched line will be centred. Notice that the stitching lies
evenly on the drawn line.
Try a paper sampler using a variety of stitches to practice
stitch centring.
To assure centred stitching on the fabrics you sew, use a
guideline marked with tailor’s chalk.
Centred Stitching
on Sampler
48