Smocking – SINGER White 5500 User Manual

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Smocking

Machine setting

knots

—How to do pre-gathering with the machine—

(1) Sew two straight lines on the part for

smocking with the stitch length 4 and the
upper thread tension extremely loose.

(2) Make knots in one end.

(3) Gather the fabric toward the knots while

holding the ends of the lower threads
in the other end.

♦ See page 24 for sewing straight stitches.

Step-2

(1) Sew smocking stitches on the gathered

part between two straight stitches.

(2) Take out the threads used to do pre

-gathering after you have finished.