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Sewing
Cross-stitch
Cross-stitch embroidery has always been a wonderful
traditional, embroidery technique.
What used to be stitched by hand with a great deal of effort can
now be sewn with the expression with astonishing ease and
speed.
With cross-stitch No. 22, design your own cross-stitch
combinations. These patterns look as if they were hand-
embroidered and give a special touch to table linen, towels or
garments.
Tips for cross-stitching:
• Sew slowly.
• Use foot No. 2.
• Place stabilizer under the fabric.
• You can embroider on Aida cloth as used for hand cross-
stitching. The length and width of the cross-stitches of your
expression can be altered depending on the count/size of
the Aida cloth squares.
• Use decorative threads to make your cross-stitch look more
professional.
Hemstitching
This is a technique everyone recognizes – but was previously
only embroidered by hand! With your expression you can
produce hemstitching much quicker and easier.
Special hemstitches No. 25 and 26 are built into your machine.
By changing the stitch length and width you can achieve
different effects. Use a wing needle for hemstitching. (A
normal needle is only used for very light fabrics – size 80.)
Hemstitching is most successful on woven natural fabrics from
which single threads can be easily pulled. Embroidery and
darning thread, particularly cotton, are very suitable. With
the hemstitches on your expression, various techniques can be
applied.
Traditional hemstitching
• Use stitches No. 25 and 26 to create lovely hemstitched
holes.
• Sew the appropriate program on a piece of test fabric.
For pulled thread hemstitching:
• Count the threads of the fabric within the area of the sewn
pattern. Adjust the pattern width so the needle is not
piercing a thread to be pulled, but falling to the side of the
threads of your fabric. This will allow you to easily remove
the threads within the pattern area.
• Pull 1 - 3 threads out of the material to the right and left of
the pattern.
• Overstitch the remaining threads with the selected program.
The needle must enter the pulled threads on both sides close
to the edges.