Lovely Needful Mischief Accomplished at the Library!
I started out by politely calling the library first. I wanted to make sure there wasn't a huge number of people using the technology room today and I got lucky. There were very few people using the library for any reason Saturday afternoon and only two using the technology room where the serger dwells. (They had something slowly printing out on one ( Read more... )
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It IS sad.
Looks like I'm going to have to produce a fashion show made from fabric and bed sheets that came from the Goodwill stores in this area and then sewn on the sewing machines and serger in the library.
Heaven help me, I swear I've just produced a plan...when I was least expecting it (and it's all your fault for having helped put the idea in my head. LOL!)
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Wow, surprised not more people use the serger! I studied Textile Economy in Germany a very long time ago and we had serger machines (they call them overlock machines over there). I didn't get to use them that often but it's nice to see they are becoming more suitable for home use now! How big is the machine at the library?
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The serger at our library is not much bigger than a toaster even though it's marked "heavy duty". I'm planning on testing its ability to serge heavier fabrics in the near future. It did okay on lighter-weight twill fabric this weekend. (I used the serger to take out a pair of unneeded pockets in a dress that I turned into a longer-length tunic.)
The problem with sergers is that most American women are having a lot of trouble learning how to 1) thread their sergers and 2) troubleshoot their sergers when something goes wrong with them.
Everyone I've talked to has told me the same story:
They get their serger home and the serger gives them nothing but trouble. Even if they do somehow manage to get their serger up and running, the first time something goes wrong with it, they can't fix it themselves so they get hit with a HUGE repair bill. After that, the serger generally winds up parked in a closet and it never sees the light of day again.
Most modern sewing machines come with a stitch that looks and acts like a serger stitch anyway.
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