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Sewing notes.
Jul. 13th, 2006 08:59 pmI have actually found something more difficult to deal with than bias-cut silk charmeuse (read: the slippery jello-fabric of Satan).
Sergers are nifty little sewing machines that sew four threads at once into a piece of fabric, and trim off the bit outside the seam as well. Very handy, but incredibly finicky about how they are set up, at least the older models.
Woolly nylon is a nifty kind of thread that is smooth and cohesive when under tension, but that unkinks into a loosely allied haze of incredibly thin fluff when relaxed. It's handy for very stretchy knits; Lycra, Spandex, that kind of thing.
Having first touched a serger with intent to operate this morning at 9:00 a.m., I was presented with the twin joys of figuring out how to thread it (not that hard, the diagram was very helpful) and doing so with woolly nylon. I cannot for love blood or money find my little wire needle-threader, so I am sitting there trying to unravel regular thread to create a thread-catcher out of it so that I can fit a loop through the eye of the needle and capture the hazy fluff of woolly nylon on the other side to draw it through.
Including tension adjustment, it took me two hours.
That said, it now appears to be going well.
Sergers are nifty little sewing machines that sew four threads at once into a piece of fabric, and trim off the bit outside the seam as well. Very handy, but incredibly finicky about how they are set up, at least the older models.
Woolly nylon is a nifty kind of thread that is smooth and cohesive when under tension, but that unkinks into a loosely allied haze of incredibly thin fluff when relaxed. It's handy for very stretchy knits; Lycra, Spandex, that kind of thing.
Having first touched a serger with intent to operate this morning at 9:00 a.m., I was presented with the twin joys of figuring out how to thread it (not that hard, the diagram was very helpful) and doing so with woolly nylon. I cannot for love blood or money find my little wire needle-threader, so I am sitting there trying to unravel regular thread to create a thread-catcher out of it so that I can fit a loop through the eye of the needle and capture the hazy fluff of woolly nylon on the other side to draw it through.
Including tension adjustment, it took me two hours.
That said, it now appears to be going well.
