Biggest mistake on the Serger video

happy I hope you're there I'm just trying to find you on my other phone okay well I'm going to assume I'm live and I hope you can see me what I'm going to do today is I'm going to go To discuss some of the

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s we make with the increase, I'll actually focus on just one, but it affects different things, we'll look at how to introduce the fabric because I think that causes a lot of problems for people we have edges that don't match, we have small stitches at the beginning, particularly with knit fabrics, and the piece of fabric bends and we don't really have much control over it and I think I can explain to you why that is.

In fact, I'm going to show you how to combine the neckband of a t-shirt. Many of you have asked me to show you how to match the shoulder seam, this is actually stitched with folder stitch and how to do it. that you have to leave one shoulder open and many of you find that you don't like the way it is attached, so here is my attachment. I think you can see that it's pretty cool, so I'm going to show you how to do it and Also when you work on children's items I appreciate that you like the color.

I love the color too. When you work on children's items and you have to make tight leggings, it's impossible to do them in the round, so you actually have to hem the leg and then of course you have to sew it and a big part of the problem is trying to match that sewing to make it perfect, so again I think I have a way to show you how to do those other things. I'm going to show you how to hide a thread string. I'm doing it for all my favorite hooks. I'm not just quilters, how to make a perfect corner when you're working on pillows and things like that.

I'm just going to give you a quick demonstration on the ruffle presser foot because the ruffle presser foot is a classic case where as you feed the fabric it runs away from you and never actually connects to the ruffle, so I'll show you that and very Lastly, I'm going to show you how to work with very thick pieces of fabric, it's actually fabric and bosal, and put them under your feet and get them soon because I know a lot of you have problems with that too, so I just don't get audio um Judy, I think there's someone else, can everyone else hear me?

Can you just put on a smiley face if you can hear so we know if it's me or someone? Just let me know if you can hear me, thank you. So what I'm going to do is just give you a quick summary of who I am in case you don't know me. I've spent 25 years teaching and designing projects for factories in China and I used to go out and train. the staff after um, I finally got to the point where I couldn't really keep getting on a plane and going as far away as China, so I decided, you know, I can leave this and I can teach the housekeepers how to design. and sew and they even speak the same language, so it has to be easier.

I think I've been doing this for three years anyway and it's been a lot of fun. I loved every minute with the exception of having to fly everywhere, but when I get to the classroom and it makes up for it, so you know, I love joining in, but I think more than anything I have a passion for sharing because I want everyone to enjoy it. del

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or saint-jean as much as I do and I have done it. I certainly enjoyed it over the years and planned to continue, but I think you need to commit to a little education before you go to the class.

I plan to do this next Monday. I don't know what the topic will be. Monday, July 29 and I also want to tell you that I have a closed group on Facebook called Deb canvas urges and she projects and everything you can see behind me, almost everything is done on the

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and many of these things are patterns. and in that group you can come and show everyone else what you have done and also get help if you have difficulties at any time and I have a website and you will find free

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s on my website. My website is www.antakungfu. com, but there are times when there is just no room for mismatches or problems at the beginning and the end, so what I want to do is show you how to deal with that, but let me give you an example.

Move the camera, so if you get dizzy or unsteady let me know, but this is my jacket, sorry, I know it's crooked. I must have crooked floss, but this is my jacket and that's it. I'm actually working on a

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class for that, but no. Are there Prairie points here? You can't be anything but precise when you're sewing Prairie stitches. Sorry, someone is complaining and can't see. I'm going to transfer you to the machine in a minute, so don't worry. You don't need to see everything here, but in the back you'll see that I have flying geese and the flying geese.

You have to be very precise when quilting on the serger and I have a solution for that. Now you can really be precise, but now I'm going to take you off my color and put you on my machine, so be patient and like I say, look away if you get unstable, what am I, you know? I'll get the machine, hopefully, yeah, that's right. I hope everyone can see my serger, so what I'm going to do first is review some of the controls on the serger. This is a triumph. I'm a baby lock. educator, let them know that I love all the surges whenever they seek.

I love them and many of the things are the same and certainly what I am showing you tonight is the same, whatever machine you have, in this particular, such and many. makes a serger there is a control on the left of the machine and on it you can increase the pressure on the foot so you can tighten it or loosen it if you turn it towards you, you can loosen it if you turn it away from you. I'm going to tighten it up, so basically I rarely change my foot pressure, but if you need to, you can certainly do that for the time being, we're just going to work with it in the usual place, so it's in the middle, so, what is it?

Great about the overlocker, well there are thousands of wonderful things about it, but the best thing in my book is the fact that it has a big dose of feed, so let me take the foot off and you can see them and actually the teeth of feeding on this. The machine is twice the size of a sewing machine, so that's what makes it great for doing things like knitting, but I'm not going to cover that today in particular, so the other thing, the serger foot, It's much bigger than a sewing machine and that's it. to cover the feed dogs, but I just want to point out that when the foot has a curve in the front, when I put my foot on the machine, it doesn't actually touch the front of the feed dogs, so what I'm going to do is cover first is the lack of feed, so having established that the foot does not cover all the feed teeth, let's move on to the lack of feed when we started to increase, we did not have a control that would allow us not to do so if our foot was not in the

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in lifting was always people sewing and discovering that they hadn't put their foot on the ground and therefore had to undo the whole simulation, but nowadays most machines have a safety, so you won't actually be able to go up unless your foot is down, but because of old times, I think we all have a habit of just sliding our cloth up to the foot and I know I taught people not to lift their foot because if they didn't lift the foot then they couldn't make the mistake of sewing when the foot wasn't down, so that's what I call non-feeding, now I'm not saying you can't feed a piece of denim in there and it won't happen completely, but remember that the foot is curved at the front, so when you go past it the feed dogs don't actually grab the fabric and that's a big problem, so if you're doing something like a weaving, you will end up with a lot of small dots, if you are doing something like fine lawn or quilting it could cause the bottom of the fabric to move in front of the fabric on top and not all the way. under the foot because of course it has to go under the foot to get pressure so my advice is don't use that method okay so the next thing I'm going to go through is what I call method number one, the thumb raise method. and this was certainly one that we used a lot, so what you're going to do is you're going to put the fabric underneath, you're going to use your thumb to lift the foot and slide the fabric down, now the advantage of that is it goes all the way to the foot and you get a grip decent, but let's go a little further, so if I imagine I have my foot on and I fed my cloth, look, my knife is getting in the way.

Did you see the knife there? on the way and I can't get very far, but look what happens if I lift my knife, I can get this fabric all the way to the back of the knife and the other point is my needle is in the highest position, that's how it should always be start, so let's set foot again. I'm going to stretch around my camera, so if it looks uncomfortable, it's so by putting my foot in there, I have a decent amount of fabric under my foot and against the feed tines. the knives are going to go down and cut so I don't mess up, they're going to go down and cut and the amount of fabric under the foot and in the feed teeth is enough to get it out, so that's what I call number one. method, sorry, method number two, so I'm going to tackle the next one and this is the one that you're going to use for all the things that have to have a lot of judges, like quilting or neck bands on t-shirts when doing the sewing of the shoulder, I see how far back I can get the fabric to the knife, but I understand that the needle is further back than that, so things can happen between the time the fabric is cut and the needle, but what happens if I do this?

I cut a quarter inch off my seam and then put it back on to see how much further back I can go. I go right back to the needle, that's what I call really safe, so let me take my foot off and really show you what I do. I'm talking, so here I am. I've taken off a quarter of an inch, that's my seam allowance and what I'm going to do is be able to do that. I can do two things. I can actually put the needle in. down and I can push that fabric directly with a needle against the knife and guess what, when I put it there it's not going anywhere, so if I'm doing something like making flying geese or any type of quilting, a neckband that match the bottom edge of the bands of the children's tights, that's where I want to be, it's not going anywhere, it's stuck against the needle and the knife, okay, I've explained it to you now.

I'm going to show you some things with it, one thing I didn't mention is that a lot of you just love the plastic foot on it and I love the plastic foot too, but I only like it for certain things. I like it for working in the round where I need to see the stitches come together, but when I'm talking about general construction and quilting and things like that. I would never use my plastic foot. I would always use metal. You get a much better grip between the metal and the feed teeth than with plastic. Well, the first thing I'm going to show you.

I'm going to show you how to make perfect corners because it involves what I just told you, everyone is writing beautiful things on this is my first Facebook Live, so I have a hard time reading the questions, but I'm watching and I'll get to them, so I'll get to them. What I'm going to do is make a little square and it will have perfect corners and that's something you always want to do when you make bags and necklaces anything where you want a 90 degree corner so I already sewed once Rose sewed here and what I'm going to do The only thing to do is to fold it and press it with your fingers if it is really important.

I would have gotten up and gone and, um, I earned it so I have my needle down and what I'm going to do is I'm going to lift my foot up and I'm going to put my foot is up, I'm going to lift up the toe so I can see what I was doing and because of my position around this tripod I'm having a lot of trouble staying so I'm putting that folded edge right up to the needle and I'm just going to By doing that by having it right up against the needle and right up against the knife, I don't know could move, he had no choice but to stay in place and I'm going to do the same now, so there you go, you have to perfect the corners when you turn.

This you are going to find the corners very, very sharp. Thank you, rosa, thank you all for your nice comments here. I appreciate them. I'm not really terrified, so I have my corners and I'm going to take them out. and because I've shown them like this, you'll get the perfect corner or at least you should get it right to get a much nicer corner, so remember, turn that piece of fabric over and fold it along the straight seam. and then you push it up to the needle and you sew on the edge and you know I actually have this raw edge against the knife and I do a lot of my moves like that just because I have a knife doesn't mean you need to cut it all the time now I have some of my quilters Every time I teach a quilting class I always chuckle because they always want as soon as that piece of stitching comes off the machine, the first thing they want to do is cut chains of thread for me when I tell them I love chains of thread. , thread chains are really useful, so this is a trick from my quilters, so actually I'm just going to sew a seam and I'm going to cut the edge here a little bit and what I'm going to do is sew it up just right. before the needles in the fabricreally there I go and what I'm going to do is lift my foot and take the thread chain out of the stitch.

I'm going to put my finger to the right and it's tight against the needle and I want it to come out a little to the right because otherwise I'm going to cut myself. Sorry Sorry. I'm going to cut it, so I pulled it around the needle and here we go and there go my strings of thread. hidden in my seam so I put it there so you can see it better, there is the other end that I can remove but not the other end so it was from my quilters that I always make fun of them. class, so the next thing I'm going to do is the neck band on the shoulder of a t-shirt and I think this is what most people ask for help with.

Now let me show you again the t-shirt I made. it's the t-shirt I made and here's my here's my binding you can tighten it if it helps okay and a lot of you say hammer it, glue it, set it, use the same machine, whatever you need to do, but it doesn't have to be like that . So hard, let me show you another little sample t-shirt that I've made and I actually want to show you that I want to shoot, sorry, I want to show you why the UM, so I'm tight on my tripod so I don't keep moving here, sorry, so here I have another t-shirt, wow!

This is another t-shirt I made, but leave it alone. I can't do anything about it now. I apologize if it keeps moving. I needed it. to adjust my camera and I didn't so here I have a thread chain and that's why thread chains are so important because actually if you look at this you'll see it's just a fraction but when I thread my thread chain it's back section here I can pull that edge so it's perfect okay so thread chains are important so I have one ready to go here in fact I have two in case I messed up the first one so here we go , okay, so what do I do?

What I'm going to do is remove the pin because of course the surges and the pins aren't the best and I've evened my lead and of course they want to keep it that way or what I didn't tell you is this look this is the shoulder seam and what I did was I cut a quarter of an inch for the first inch and a half, okay and that's because I'm going to put it against the needle and this edge against the knife, okay? I'm going to lift my foot because that's the only way I can do it and I'm going to bring it up to the needle.

Now I'm sitting very far from this machine, so I hope the needles are there and what I want. The first thing I want to happen is I want the needle to go down and into the fabric because that way there's no room for it to move, so here's my join, I hope it's pretty perfect, so that was the band of the neck. The next thing I'm going to show you is that many of you are saying, "It's impossible to put thick fabrics under the presser foot and this is what I am, it's actually a very thick fabric band, don't keep moving it please." what they are are two layers of Basel two layers of Basel here two layers of ties are here fabric on top fabric on the bottom fabric on top fabric on the bottom so we're talking about four layers of bosal four layers of fabric and You can see there's no way for it to get under them under the foot, so for the first time I'm going to learn to press my feet and I'm going to gather my thick fabrics together and this is what I do with anything that's thick. many of you do my projects that have Basel.

I'm not going to cut the bosal with the knife, so what you're going to do is lift your foot and let me tell you that most of the time you lift your foot, if you put your thumb in and lift it high, it's going to go higher, like this. which let me repeat that on the control foot control on the right, you lift it to raise the foot, but if you really push it higher, it will go higher. so it's against the knife and it's actually close to the noodles because that's where I like to have them.

I see you have no problems feeding now, sometimes, just sometimes, not very often, sometimes a needle can break if it's too thick and you're probably thinking to yourself, oh I need a bigger needle if you're having trouble with thick fabric and the needles break, use a micro txt needle, it is much sharper and will go through the fabric easily, don't necessarily use a larger one, so that's where you go to sew. all the way pretty good, uh, now under normal circumstances reduce the flat stitch to do that, but we're not doing a flat stitch today, so let me take a quick look at the questions.

Sorry, I've been fighting with my moving camera. I'm learning a lot of things from my first time, so the next thing I'm going to do is have you guys still be there. Send me a happy face or something. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to talk quickly about the ruffle effect because I know from classes that a lot of people have problems with that feed and I understand that because I have the problem too, so I'm going to be messy. In fact, I'll use a thread of three. I would probably use a four, but I won't.

Is there a special needle for Mikrotik surgeon? No, but I understand that I am using the Oh One and Oh Two needles for the overlocker. I can use any needle in that position and in fact for this I should have used a ballpoint needle. I'm actually just using an overlock needle because I didn't lose any stitches. I could go get some pen needles, but then I'd be tempted to knit and I promised myself I'm going to work. on that jacket this week, so I figured if I don't have needles I can't be tempted, so what I'm going to do is turn my differential feed up to two.

I'm going to change my foot so pick up the foot and change it, this is the ruffled foot and with a ruffled foot I'll always have an overlap and I'll cut something out, this is how I do it, but I'm going to run the fabric underneath. This is the ruffled fabric and I'm just going to pick it up and move it back to the needle and I actually have it against the knife and if any of you have ever attended my classes, you know? which I have a particular way of using it on a ruffle foot and I'm going to cover it on another bit so I have ruffles so that's good and now I want to attach my straight piece of fabric and my straight piece of fabric just sometimes when I do this , it escapes me and no matter how much I do it, it keeps moving away, so I'm going to feed my fabric that I'm not going to put together.

I have my needle on the floor area so that's good and What I did was lift my foot and you probably can't see it so I'm going to explain. I have inserted the fabric flat at the top but I have inserted it all the way to the needle. The next thing the needles will do is go up and down on my fabric, if I don't I find it runs away so I'm going to do a quick strip and you'll know I left my fabric. in the corners it is much easier and I will do a longer session to join both the chain and the tire, but there is a good joint, did you see it?

Anyone has any questions? I am very happy to share my experience. Norma has someone Oh, someone said move the camera. I can't see what you're doing. Should I do it again? I'm just doing a quick one of that again in case anyone can't see, so what I'm doing is I'm putting my curling fabric under the foot up to the needle and I'm going to hold it up and in that corner at the bottom. of the foot. I have my fabric there and now I'm going to attach it to another piece of fabric. It's the top strip that doesn't gather and this is the part you need to remember, it will slip if you don't place it right at the height of the needle, so I need to lift my foot and position that fabric correctly. to the needle, the next thing that's going to happen is the needle is going to go down and go into the fabric and no, you can't see what I'm doing.

I just realized, let me see if I'm going to hold this up right. Oops, I took it out. I'll hold it up so it's out of the way and maybe you can, but that's the problem with this particular way of using it. It is not easy to demonstrate from the front. Okay, I'm going to hold it. that's up there now you better see how I'm keeping it in the corners and the reason for this is because if you use it regularly it tends to slip away from you and I like to drop my bottom fabric on the foot so there's no pressure on him.

I'm going to leave now because I already did it once. Look, I think you get better puckers when you drop it and it certainly doesn't move away from you like it does. If you just lift it up and lay it flat, yes, you'll be able to see this again, it's recorded. I promise that next time I will secure my camera more. Anyone has any questions? I hope you enjoyed it and I hope I have helped you. Do you have any questions that I didn't answer because I was busy with the demo. I will definitely return and write. special requests, please let me know.

I actually chose this topic because I find that it comes up constantly on the social media sites of people who are having problems. Yes, Libby, I'll try to do it every Monday. Mondays are the only ones I'm always home. I'm usually out. Wednesday to Sunday, so no, thank you all for watching and talking to you soon.