Your doing alright. a one year old won't mind if it is wonky anyway. It doesn't have to be perfect. I was remind today of "if your doing the best you can do, accept it and other will love it regardless". We are way to harder on ourselves than we need to be, myself included. I love my serger too, but it is a different animal sewing minkee on a serger than a regular machine. I would stick to your regular machine on this. It is all good. It will come together and you will learn from it. I am still learning