How to Do a Cover Stitch With a Janome Serger
The Janome serger does a beautiful job of sewing a cover stitch over the raw edge of your hemmed tee shirts and tops. This is the stitch that you see at the bottom of commercially made tee shirts and sweat shirts. The cover hem guide helps you make a perfectly consistent folded edge on tee shirt and knit pants hems. On top, the stitching will appear as two parallel lines of sewing, and underneath, the stitch will be a complex zigzag stitch that covers the raw edge to prevent raveling.
Instructions
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Attach the cover hem guide foot to the machine. Raise the presser foot. Slip the raw edge of the fabric under the presser foot and line the raw edge up with the needle furthest to the left. Lower the presser foot.
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Fold the rest of the fabric over the guide, toward the left. This will give you an idea of how to fold the fabric before slipping the double folded layer under the foot for sewing. Loosen the screws that adjust the fabric edge guide to your right with the screwdriver.
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Slide the fabric edge guide up to the fold of the fabric. Tighten the two white plastic knobs on the right to hold the fabric edge guide in place. Pull the folded fabric toward you to pull it out from under the guide foot.
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Raise the presser foot. Slide the folded edge back under the cover hem guide foot. Lower the foot. Bring the twin needles down to touch the fabric.
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Fold the top of the fabric back to your right. You will see a small white plastic slider underneath the fabric. Put your hand under the machine to find the handle for this slider and slide it slightly to the right. This holds the bottom layer in place.
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Slide the metal top fabric holder to the left to hold the top layer in place. Step on the foot pedal, and the machine will begin to stitch the cover stitch from the right side. You will see two lines of stitching appear on top.
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Stitch around the hem of the top or pants cuff until you are a few inches from the end. Push the release button underneath the bed of the machine so that you can continue sewing up to the point where you began the hem seam. Turn the fabric to the wrong side to check that the cover stitch covered the raw edge correctly.
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