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At the sewing machine, set the stitch length to 5mm. This will make it easy to remove any unwanted stitches. Sew the seam at the desired seam allowance. After fitting and the adjustments have been made, sew the seam with a normal stitch length of 2.4mm.
A baste stitch is basically setting the machine to a straight stitch with the longest stitch length available. Loosen the top tension slightly if you want to remove the basting later.
A basting stitch is just a matter of setting the stitch length to very long. If you want to remove the basting stitch after your project is complete, you can also loosen the top tension so the bobbin thread will pull out very easily.
Wondering if a wash-away fabric spray adhesive will work just as well.
To baste, set the stitch length as high as possible (zero is a non-stitch length, probably 4 or 5 on your machine is the largest stitch length). Set the stitch width to zero so there is no zig-zag.
if the machine can do a basting stitch the information should be in the sewing machine manual, if you don't have a manual, add a comment with the name and model number of the machine and someone should be able to help you find one.
Some machines have a built-in basting stitch. If yours doesn't have it, the closest you can get is setting the stitch length to as long as possible. To make the basting stitch easy to remove, loosen the upper tension. Then to remove the thread, just grab the bobbin thread and pull.
Some compuerised machines will have a basting stitch programmed in, it may have a symbol like a dot then a long dash then another dot. This will give you a decent spaced basting stitch. On mechanical machines sometimes you can get a basting needle plate - you set up for the longest widest zigzag stitch and the tube on the plate makes one side of the zig not catch so you get a long straight stitch.
But if you are joining silky fine fabrics together, then needle and length of thread doubled is still the best way, takes a little longer but the fabrics won't creep and slip.
I haven't been able to find a 6003 manual or a good image of the stitch range for this machine on line. However, a basting stitch might look like " . _____ . _____. " on your stitch selector. As your machine is targeted for quilters I'd have expected it to have a basting stitch in its range.
If there is nothing like that, then just dial up the longest possible straight stitch, ie take length up to 4 or 5, whatever the maximum number is. Then loosen off the top and bottom tensions and stitch away.
If you are using this to baste a quilt top, botton and batting together, I've discovered a product called "spray basting" which is fantastic and "glues" the layers together while you sew them. You need a big clear floorspace though and put paper down under the project. But it works great.
The basting stitch is not normally a separate stitch, just set the stitch length as long as it will go, and the same for the stitch spacing. Make sure you are not using any fancy setting or zigzag and this should be fine for basting.
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