Selecting a Stitch Pattern on a Sewing Machine

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Neal Jones and I’m with A Perfect Fit Alterations, 102 Main Street, Burleson, Texas and our phone number is 817-447-3522. Continuing with our machine, our foot control, we’ve plugged in the control, we have the switch over here that turns the machine on, when the machine goes on we have an audio signal that tells us that the machine is turned on, we have illuminated the area where we select our stitches and we have a sewing light over here. The foot control, obviously as it says is a control that you use with your feet, so we’re going to place this on the floor so that I can operate it with my foot. Now in order to select a stitch, there are a lot of choices right here and some of these stitches are purely decorative and other stitches are for practical reasons that we use. Now the practical stitches are kind of, in this particular machine, are grouped in the center of the selection board here, the stitch that it’s on right now is a regular straight stitch and in order to prepare for sewing, we would select that straight stitch, we would come over here and this would be our stitch width and we would put that on zero because we don’t want to be sewing with a zigzag. We would then go here and select our stitch length, now our stitch length would vary tremendously depending on what we were doing, if there are certain things that we’re sewing that we foresee that we may have to take apart, now for example if we were putting a patch on somebody’s shirt, we would use a fairly long stitch for that which would me there would gaps between it, that way if the patch had to ever be removed we could cut the stitches and remove the patch. Now on the other end of the scale, if we wanted something in a garment that was under a lot of stress and we needed the stitch to be very close together so that it essentially weaved the fabrics together, we would then come over here and use a very fine stitch but that fine stitch will be very difficult to take out. "