Creative Uses for Your Serger?
10-31-2011, 02:32 PM
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I use mine to make chemo caps that look like biker caps. I use wooly nylon, as it is softer on the bald head. I also use it for edging items I don't want to bind. I have seen on some quilting show that someone used their serger with the knife down or so that it doesn't cut, to put decorative stitches on crazy quilts. I wish that I could remember the show. Maybe Kay Wood?
10-31-2011, 02:32 PM
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I use mine to make chemo caps that look like biker caps. I use wooly nylon, as it is softer on the bald head. I also use it for edging items I don't want to bind. I have seen on some quilting show that someone used their serger with the knife down or so that it doesn't cut, to put decorative stitches on crazy quilts. I wish that I could remember the show. Maybe Kay Wood? Sorry it posted twice.
10-31-2011, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Eileen
I have seen on some quilting show that someone used their serger with the knife down or so that it doesn't cut, to put decorative stitches on crazy quilts. I wish that I could remember the show. Maybe Kay Wood?
Edit: I found this pdf. Aside from disengaging the knife, it looks like you need to fold the fabric along the line you want to stitch. Folded right sides together, then opened up, the stitch looks one way; folded wrong sides together and then opened up, it looks another way. Neat!
10-31-2011, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Prism99
Originally Posted by Eileen
I have seen on some quilting show that someone used their serger with the knife down or so that it doesn't cut, to put decorative stitches on crazy quilts. I wish that I could remember the show. Maybe Kay Wood?
Edit: I found this pdf. Aside from disengaging the knife, it looks like you need to fold the fabric along the line you want to stitch. Folded right sides together, then opened up, the stitch looks one way; folded wrong sides together and then opened up, it looks another way. Neat!
I made one of these at a Chicago Quilt show one year. It was very very easy.
10-31-2011, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SmickChick
This is wild one! You know there are tea bags. There are coffee bags also. I used to buy them so I could have a decent cup of coffee at work. I'm a coffee snob, so I started making my own coffee bags. The ones you buy have about 1/4 instant coffee in them. So I mix up my favorite blend (french roast or express blend, i.e. DARK) and add 1/4 instant. Then I buy the coffee filters that are shaped like a cone with a blunt end at the cone. I cut them down the center. I chain finish this cut, which leaves the top open. I fill the bag with my special blend, and serge across the top. Does this make me a red neck? I hope so!
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