Sewing Follow-up aka The Serger

Since I whined a bit yesterday about the serger, I thought I better show what I was doing with it. I used both my serger and my newly fixed Bernina to make chair cushions for a chair that has been waiting for cushions! I did the first of two cushions while having no problem with the serger. The moment I started the second one I had to stop and rethread it. Because, you know, it’s FINE to have all four thread tracks exposed to anything that comes along to unthread it. Fine.

But having rethreaded and made sure everything was still passing through the tension disks, it worked well. This fabric is intended for inside or outside use so I expected without serging the edges there would be quite a bit of raveling and this way that’s not a concern. Could have done it on the Bernina but not as fast and as a bonus it trimmed down the seam allowances a bit. I think I’ll invest in some new thread since this stuff is **mumble-mumble** years old, like I don’t remember. But it’s fine.

Oh and measure at least twice, do the math and then remeasure and cut once. Whenever possible sew once because ripping out is… I didn’t rip out today.