Originally Posted by happymrs
I am thinking, if you get to the end of your fabric, your seam, if you turn it around, & start it right back in, & go back serging about an inch or so, then just sew of the edge to end it, that's like backstitching a seam on a serger. I have done this on garments made alot! Hope this helps!
You can do that, but these ends are still the ones that will unravel eventually. Still works better to enclose them in the stitching. Thats the way I start stitching; by starting a couple inches up the seam, sew down to the end and then reverse my seam to go back up from the start of the sleeve or shirt bottom.