Pfaff 1214 Support Question
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Question posted by billie4433 on October 15th, 2015
Zigzag Feature.
I am unable to make the zigzag stitch work when I dial the selector to any of the numbers in the zigzag range. What am I missing?
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Answer #1: Posted by TechSupport101 on October 16th, 2015 6:59 AM
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Hi. Please see page 15 of the Owner's Manual here https://www.helpowl.com/manuals/Pfaff/1214/184588 for the best pointer on Zigzag Stitching (and all shall work out just fine provided there is no mechanical issue with the dial selector)
Related Pfaff 1214 Manual Pages
Owner's Manual - Page 2
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12
Before you start sewing
13
Ultra-Matic stitch selector
14/15
Straight stitching
15
Zigzag stitching
15
Foot control
15
Reverse sewing
16
Dropping the machine feed
16
Presser bar ...edges
Cording Inserting lace Elastic zigzag seam Appliqué work Needle position control Button sewing Sewing buttonholes Monogram embroidery
Quilting Edge stitching Darning with the
must letter...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
You are illustrated.
By identifying these sewing instructions carefully, and hope that you first take the time to read this instruction booklet. We recommend that you study these parts on your machine, you will always be a pleasure. Uz1I®
Instruction Book for the Push-Button Pfaff 1213, 1214 and 1222-E
194
Dear (new) Pfaff...
Owner's Manual - Page 5
... knob (Pfaff 1214)
9 Ultra-Matic stitch selector
10 Needle position control (D)
11 Buttonhole control (1)
12 Master on-off switch (C)
13 Free arm
14 Free arm cover
(enclosing the sewing hook)
15 Sewing foot
16 Dualfeed
17 Needle threader control
18 Upper tension
19 Reverse-feed control
20 Presser bar lifter
(on back of machine arm)
21...
Owner's Manual - Page 8
... latch K and pull out the bobbin case with the Pfaff 1213 - Then - On Ptaff machines 1214 and 1222E open latch. just like with the bobbin. On the Pfaff 1213 remove the bed cover. ro remove the bobbin case.
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Make sure the needle is posiboned above the need'e plato. The bobbin cannot faH out...
Owner's Manual - Page 9
... bobbin winder by the Stopmatic control. For details please refer to wind the bobbin and disengage the sewing mechanism:
Raise both spool pins and place a spool of thread on one of Pfaft machines 1213 and 1214 (8a on the foot control.
Simply place the bobbin on bobbin winder disc S where it is engaged...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
... the balance wheel to its normal (horizontal) position (B on page 17).
3
On Pfaff machines 1213 and 1214, turn the balance wheel until the prong reverses and pulls the thread through the needle eye ... threader (Fig. 1).
2
Now push the needle threader control down with the automatic Pfaff need'e threader
Make sure the needle is in the position shown in its highest point, i.
e.
Owner's Manual - Page 15
... medium dense
Now try a zigzag stitch. Zigzag stitches are marked by making a sewing test. The harder you turn the Liltra-Matic stitch
selector. Start by numbers. Note The needle must never be in the stitch ranges marked 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. For instance, the range from 0 to 4 comprises straight stitches of your machine.
The zigzag stitch desired is dialed just as easily
as a straight...
Owner's Manual - Page 17
... when the bobbin thread is lowered. With the models 1213/1214 the presser bar lifter can only be pushed to be drawn up, in position A). When you how it re turns automatically to turn the fabric. Position A (illustrated below ) means that the sewing foot is to positions B and C. you push the presser...
Owner's Manual - Page 18
... slightly, then pull it down in the sewing foot. To disengage this foot, push it up out of the slot in the slot of fabric wiH match erfectly, no matter how long the seam iay be. This foot is the only home sewing machine the world featuring a dual feed.
our Ptaff is used for...
Owner's Manual - Page 20
... the needle, lower the presser bar lifter and flick it to use for a specific sewing job is shown on page 23 and the following pages. tilt ing it will go, making sure the flat side of your machine contains several special sewing feet (hemmer foot, buttonhole foot, etc.) which are used for
changing. Various...
Owner's Manual - Page 22
To increase the sewing area of your vorking surface...
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Straightstitch
and zigzag sewing work
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Owner's Manual - Page 23
... keep it taut
while sewing.
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23 Second seam: Insert the seam ridge into the felling foot. Now see for yourself what your Pfaff can be obtained from your Pfaff dealer)
. Make sure the fabric enters the felling foot evenly. cr-ji
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Felled seams are made in straight and zigzag
stitching. lake advantage of the...
Owner's Manual - Page 28
Place the filler thread under the groove of the cording foot and sew on the wrong side of the fabric. hirring wfth fiUer thread
Itra-Matic stitch selector: idest zigzag stitch in the shirring makes it more durable.
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When you have finished the zigzag seam, slide the material along the filler thread to
distribute its fullness evenly. To...
Owner's Manual - Page 37
... the needle again. Then trim the threads.
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- Button sewing
Ultra-Matic stitch selector: straight stitch Drop the machine feed (see p. 38). Sew as many zigzag stitches as it descends for its left hole exactly as you deem necessary to straight stitching and sew a few tying stitches. Attach clear-view sewing foot No. 93-040 920-91
Place the material and...
Owner's Manual - Page 38
... symbol is above the setting mark. During this phase, the machine makes a few zigzag stitches for a medium stitch density (see ill, above , center). Repeat this seam, making it toward ±, the stitches are packed together more closely (see ill.
The machine is positioned vertically.
Now sew this for the central needie position is positioned below the setting...
Owner's Manual - Page 40
If you were writing. Drop the machine feed. Straight-lined monograms can be able to embroider monograms in a darning hoop and lower the presser bar lifter and... a darning hoop.
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r Once you have acquired a little practice, you will be embroider ed with the cording or clear-view sewing foot. Monogram embroêdery
Ultra-Matic stitch selector: zigzag stitch (depending on the fabric.
Owner's Manual - Page 42
... those darned with wool thread
Ultra-Matic stitch selector: zigzag stitch in stitch range 6 or 7.
The wool thread must be placed under the darning foot (ill, right). Stitch it . Then sew back and forth over the darned area lengthwise, using a thin darning thread. Darning with thin embroidery and darning thread.
Run the machine and place the wool thread back...
Owner's Manual - Page 43
... little holes in the fabric and turn the stitch selector to obtain beautiful eyelets.
Eyelet embroidery
For eyelet embroidery you need cover plate No. 93-040 946-45 which is very im portant to a narrow zigzag stitch in the feed slot (see
adjoining drawing). Drop the machine feed. Sew around the hole, turning the hoop by...
Owner's Manual - Page 62
....
The needle plate of Pfaff machines 1214 and 1222E must be oiled occasionally...sewing hook and clean the machine feed regularly. The needle plate of the sewing hook. Since your machine in the vicinity of the Pfaff 1213 is the sewing hook. For cleaning the sewing hook, remove the needle, the bobbin case and the sewing foot. Remove the lint that has to keep your Pfaff sewing machine...
Owner's Manual - Page 63
... sewing machine can easily do
yourself
The sewing light illuminates the work in front
and back of your ma
chine. If thread should occur, check the tween the tension discs.
Light bulbs for straight stitching
Are there pieces of oil into its central position; turn it is handled
thread? They have completed sewing,
be disengaged, To make...
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