clamp 24 are to slide the shirt panel 18 and pocket blank 16 from the work holder 14 to the sewing head 22 and then move the shirt panel 18 and pocket blank 16 under the sewing needle 48 to sew the pocket blank 16 to the shirt panel 18 with a desired stitch pattern as heretofore described the pocket setter 10 of this invention will be recognized by those skilled in the art as representative of the pocket setting machines manufactured by the assignee of this invention in this invention the transfer clamp 24 provides a pocket flap holder 50 for receiving a pocket flap blank 52 having a finished lower edge and possibly a button hole or snap 54 the transfer clamp 24 in conjunction with a shirt panel holder 56 the x y positioner 26 and the sewing head 22 sews the pocket flap blank 52 onto the shirt panel 18 at the end of the pocket setting operation as will become more fully apparent hereinafter this is accomplished with a minimum of additional mechanical or electro mechanical parts and the necessary movement of the pocket flap holder 50 relative to the shirt panel 18 are done by the x y positioner 26 under the control of the digital controller 28 this means the incremental costs of performing this operation are quite low and there are few components to maintain in addition changes.