Hope today's sewing adventure goes better than yesterday's. Spent a good bit of time cleaning up after the last project, thoroughly cleaning the lint out of the serger, getting the cutting table re-organized to get space to work. Only to have the serger stubbornly refuse to serge. The threads kept getting snarled and breaking, and I couldn't really see a reason why. So I pulled all the threads, and I'm going to try to absolutely thread it from scratch. I really hope it works, or it's going to kill the positive, productive mood that I'm in.
ETA: I did get the serger working, and I got some sewing done! One or two of the tension discs feel a little bit loose. Wonder if that is normal, or how they could be tightened. Yes, the machine could use a tune-up, but I'd like to wait until after the holidays, and until our financial situation improves.
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I used to keep a tally on the wall in my sewing area:
Me vs Serger, with tickmarks keeping track of who was winning. Accursed things, so finicky. And yet, so magical...
My serger is a bear. I rarely use it because it's too frustrating to deal with tension issues. What I need is a really good serger machine class. Until then, I'll keep plugging along with my sewing machine. :)
Yep, EC. Sometimes that machine can be so frustrating!
Karen, there are so many things that I use it for. Sewing/finishing seams on knit garments, kids' clothes, doll clothes. Tension issues are one of the things that I don't deal with very often, however. What kind of serger do you have?
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