Exercise 2 Adjusting Stitch Selection, Length and Width

Exercise 2 Adjusting Stitch Selection, Length and Width

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In this exercise you will practice changing the stitch width control. Before you can do this exercise you must have learned to thread the sewing machine and make/wind a bobbin. Test to make sure your machine is properly threaded before beginning the exercise.
Fold a six inch square of fabric in half. You will now have a 3 x 6 inch piece of fabric.
Getting Started:
Your stitch selector should be on stitch 1, straight stitch.
Your stich length should remain on 2.5.
Your stitch width should remain on 0.0
Follow the procedures for lining up your fabric and beginning to sew a seam: (needle up, presser foot up, align the fabric into position, needle down, presser foot down. Ready).
1.  Along one of the long edges of the rectangle, you will sew a straight line seam, using the edge of the presser foot as the guide for your seam allowance.
2.  Repeat step 1 along the other long edge of the rectangle.
Finishing the Edges
Often in sewing you will sew a decorative stitch along the “raw” (unfinished) edge of fabric. An example of this is using the Zig Zag stitch to secure the fabric and prevent it from fraying. A professional would use a Serger machine that specializes in this type of stitch, but for this class a Zig Zag is fine.
Make sure your needle is in the UP position.
Adjust your stitch selector to stitch 5, zig zag.
Increase the stitch length to a 2.
Leave your stitch width where it is at 3.5.
Follow the procedures for lining up your fabric and beginning to sew a seam: (needle up, presser foot up, align the fabric into position, needle down, presser foot down. Ready).
1.  Along the raw edge of one of the long edges of the rectangle, you will sew a zig zag stitch from one end to the other.
2.  Repeat step 1 along the other long edge of the rectangle.

NEATLY CLIP ALL LOSE THREADS AND DISCARD

Staple The Completed Sample inside this box.