Finding a Zig Zag Pattern & Working With Different Widths

Video Transcript

" On behalf of expertvillage.com, I am Jennifer with A Perfect Fit Alterations. We’re located in Burleson, Texas. Our phone number is 817-447-3522. I’m going to discuss in this clip how to find your zigzag on your machine, how to adjust the width and the length, and what you would use the different stitches for. On this machine our zigzag stitch here is number 2. We would push number 2. Now it’s going to setup and it’s going to ask you right here what the width is; this has it at 5.0, which is a real wide stitch. You can adjust it by pushing this button here and it’ll take it bigger, or if you go the other direction it’ll take it smaller, almost to where it’s nonexistent. We’re going to test out our width before we start any of our projects to see how wide the stitch is. Now that is a very, very narrow zigzag. You might use that zigzag to go around the bottom of the pair of pants to stop it from fraying; you might use it if you don’t have a surger. You can use it as an overlock stitch. You can go wider on your stitch. And we’re going to use this stitch for different appliqué work, decorating things like that, and you can go even wider and this stitch might be used for putting on a patch, maybe a boy scout patch or a girl scout patch. You can adjust the length of the stitch by pushing the minus, and it’ll make the stitches closer together, which would be a decorative appliqué stitch. And there you can see we’ve started with the very small, which you’re going to use for different overlocking and different projects, and as the stitch goes up and then we’re all the way to an appliqué stitch on the zigzag."