lynnie

it's a babylock, pacesetter with air threading.
I will finish my seams for all my projects, and serge my seams before adding binding. it leaves it nice for a binding edge.
also on fabric napkins, and other sorts like that. also on sewing cloths. but mainly just to finish the seams nciely. a rolled hem makes a nice finish on many things, like napkins or aprons. the list is endless.

Stitchnripper

Glad to hear, lynnie. Good advice. I've been using mine lately. I watched a video on how to make a rolled hem. So that was easy enough. I also made myself two tops to wear to the gym. I have fabric for one more. I finished the seams on the serger. I haven't used it for anything quilt related. At least not yet.

lynnie

...and the repair shop had a even feed foot for my Featherweight machine, so I had them throw that in too. Now I don't have to pay postage on that!

Mariposa

Congrats on the fix! So....what projects are you thinking about doing with it?

lynnie

first thing is Next Christmas's aprons, done with this year already. (Don't hate me!)

sewbizgirl

Lynnie, what kind of aprons do you make? I bought some vintagey looking fabric for aprons but need a design.

Glad you got the machine working again. Not all servicemen are equal! There are the good ones, and the ones who only do what's easy. Glad you found a good one.

I have two sergers... the original one I've had for 30 years that I use to finish inside edges on clothing I'm making, and a newer Elna serger that someone gave me because they couldn't figure out the tension. I can't get the tension to work right on that one either, but I leave it set up for rolled hemming and only use it for that. It does a beautiful rolled hem.

I only use my sergers for clothing construction-- mostly knits. If you are primarily a quilter you really don't need a serger. At the Paducah show I ran across a group of ladies sewing strips together on sergers... a "Charity Sew" with donated Moda jelly rolls. They were using sergers only to join the strips. I just didn't 'get it'. Seemed like overkill and a big waste of thread to me. But I think it was to promote the sergers.

JuneBillie

Sewbizgirl that is how I am. My dad gave me mom's serger, but I don't make that many clothes, mostly quilting projects so I knew I wouldn't use it. I gave it to my daughter in law other wise I would have kept it. She makes clothes. She made her own wedding dress when her and my son were first married. I have an aunt who lives in Alabama and makes everything, but mom said she uses a zig zag stitch to finish seams, so if I did make something in clothes which isn't that often I would use it.

lynnie

you could use it for any seam sewn, it will give it a nice finish, including quilting. if your doing long seams, or short ones. I like to finish my raw edges before adding binding. I was traditionally a clothing constructor. Now mainly quilting. It costs too much to make cloths now. The serger also sews quicker than the regular machine. I like the way all the raw edges are finished and ready for binding.