Greetings,
I am wondering if somebody here can help me with a particular problem. I would like to get my hands on instructions to use the one-step buttonhole feature of my Singer machine. I don't know, but I have the nasty feeling that something is amiss. The instruction manual supplied with the machine does not even mention that feature of my machine, and the Singer website shows how to do the one-step buttonhole with a foot that is radically different from mine. What I am looking for is an instruction page from a manual that will show how to properly use the foot I have for the buttonhole. This is the kind of foot that has a receptacle for the button on the back. Apart from my machine, a Singer 4622A, the other machines that have this feature (and the foot) are usually the Futura/Athena/Creative lines from Singer. Possibly others too, but the ones I mentioned are the ones that come with that particular buttonhole foot.
The problems I have been having are:
1) If I go too fast with the sewing of the buttonhole, the thread eventually breaks. BTW, do I use a special thread for the buttonhole, of if the regular sewing thread will do? I suddenly feel the need to ask, since it is becoming so difficult to use regular thread on that machine to make buttonholes.2) If I go too slow (I usually start slow, picking speed gradually), the buttonhole will skip stitches.
Apart from those problems, when the machine succeeds in making the buttonhole, which is 50% of the time, it will do a wonderful job. But I never had that failure rate with my old 4 step buttonhole system on the other sewing machine. So I guess that there is something wrong with a) the thread, b) the buttonhole foot, or c) me.
Any advice, even if it's only about thread, will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Mario Landerman