Originally Posted by GailG
Originally Posted by Tallulah
Originally Posted by costumegirl
Tallulah - I LOL! at your comment about not to thread at night!!! That is sooooo true!!! It always takes longer at night - I will have a more difficult time figuring out/remembering the steps! :) but during the day it seems less painful (LOL, well at least sometimes!!) :)
Ok, have you noticed that if you need light colored thread, the dark will be on the serger, and if you need dark thread, the light will be on? I am a happy girl when I take the cover off and there is the color I need on it!!! lol
When I was doing garment sewing (especially during the summer months when I worked on my wardrobe for the coming school year) I would use four different neutrals and use that for all the colors I was working on. I'd keep the light-colored sewing or the white to work on all at one time. The neutrals I'd use were a medium beige, a lighter beige, and two different grays, one pretty dark and one a little lighter. It worked for me. And after all I was the only one seeing the inside of my garments.
I also considered the colors I was working with at the time. Sometimes I'd notice that most of my fabric was in the blue family, or perhaps in the browns. Then I'd use colors that worked with the particular groups of fabrics. Sounds OCD, huh. Honestly , I'm definitely NOT, but it worked for me.
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Hey, sounds like it worked for you! We don't change colors often for our quilt piecing and no one is wiser. Now, serger thread is a little different. It looks so gross when light thread is on a dark fabric. Yuck. 8-)