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Using Your Edgestitcher

May 17, 2008

Edgestitcher

Attach to the machine in place of the regular presser foot. This attachment is really indispensable whenever stitching must be accurately kept on the outmost edge of a piece of material.

The slots on the Edgestitcher are numbered from 1 to 5 and serve as guides for sewing together laces, insertions and embroideries, sewing hemmed or folded edges into position, piping, or sewing the flat braid to your material.

Look at your edgestitcher on the machine. The slots from top to bottom on the left are numbers 1, 2, 3 and the two on the right, top to bottom are numbers 4 and 5.

Sewing lace together – Place one edge in slot 1 and the other in slot 4. Adjust the lug (letter A) by pushing right or left. You may have to push fairly hard the first several times until it does loosen up. Adjust until both edges are caught by the stitching. Hold the pieces slightly overlapped to keep them against the ends of the slots.
Lace, ribbon, or any other insertions can be sewn using the same slots number 1 and 4.

Applying Bias Folds
Folded bias tape or “military braid” can be used for various trimmings and sewn on by placing the material under the edgestitcher the same as under a presser foot, and placing the tape in slot 1 or 4.

Applying Military Braid with the Edgestitcher
Practice – there are “sew” many things to do with this Edgestitcher.

Wide Hems
Use the slot number 5 to sew a wide hem on your garments.
Practice with various types of materials and decorative finishes. Depending on which slot you use, will determine your sewing placement. Have fun!

Tucking with the Edgestitcher
Dainty narrow tucking can be made using the edgestitcher by inserting your creased folds in slot 1. Adjust the lug to the right or left for your desired width of tuck.

Excerpt from, Your Featherweight 221 & 222: Those Wonderful Singer Attachments, by Charlene Phillips
(copyright 2007)