My BEST serger tips! - money saving, finishing seams and many more...

So, following the video in which we debunked some widely held myths and assumptions about overlockers, you, especially those people who already have some surgeries at home, had a lot of questions, a lot of questions, so in this video I will answer all of them and I hope that we can I'll give you those helpful

tips

and tricks and some of the cards that I have up my sleeve so that you can continue starting Serger

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efficiently and with greater success, so let's get started, so the first question is and I'm paraphrasing these and the first question. this is overlocking thread and insertion thread is expensive and if so how to do it and that won't add the cost of a real project plus an ongoing cost after you buy an overlocking machine and the answer is yes and no, but I do it.

I have a little hands-on demo here for you, so for five years and six years since my husband gave me my

serger

as a gift, which I really appreciate, I don't want to go anywhere inside my

serger

, I hardly ever use it all. four spools of the same color except white, beige, navy and black, and those are the fabric colors I usually sew with the most and that's the reason I have those four matching ones, but only for those colors for the rest of my project. Whether I'm sewing for a baby as a gift or whatever else I'm making, I do this, so for example, let's say I'm sewing a bright pink t-shirt for my son, the first thread I'll use will usually be the thread that matches with the one closest to the project fabric and that will be your needle thread, the first one here after that, I'll try to see if I have matching shades of the same color, so I'm going for pink and pink and I know this one is peach, but imagine this is another shade of pink and this one is like this and ta-da, that's it.

Now you can't buy them either and use white or beige, after that you can do that too. because really the only thread you'll see, if you ever see it on the outside, let's say after a really significant stretch or something like that, will be the first thread on your needle, everything else will be perfectly hidden. the inside of the seam now another thing is that since I bought my first overlocker I almost never buy any of those little spools for my sewing machine, I only use them for both my overlocker and my sewing machine, so that way I don't I have to buy a duplicate of the same color thread and a smaller spool and a larger spool and if you're asking a question about how to use this very large spool on your sewing machine, just take, you know, like a cup of coffee , you put it in a cup and then you continue threading your sewing machine the normal way, you just place the cup behind your sewing machine on the side and that works without a problem and I actually use this trick all the time.

If you watch my videos, you've probably noticed this. that almost never all of my threads are going to match, they are usually a variety of the same color shade, the closer I get the better, but it totally works and definitely saves

money

, and you know how I can feel about another one. There is a question brewing regarding what we just discussed and yes, I use the same spool for both the sewing machine and a serger, even when I need to sew the top, let's say I just completed a seam with a serger and then I need to sew it or do something else because this is a spool that goes in the first location here, usually that's the last step of threading, so I don't mind taking it out three threads on my sewing machine doing a top stitch and then, If I do I need to continue with a serger taking it off a sewing machine and putting it back on the serger I don't see it being too much work it's just me the next question is from ricky and ricky has been a subscriber to this channel for

many

many

years so which I am very happy to answer this question and she asks me how you like to do the serger ends and how to finish them and two ways that I do it, number one: you get a hook and you put the serger end through the seam of real serger and it stays there nice and neat and hidden and you don't have to really worry about anything else and the second thing is I just tie a knot, I really do, you take a needle and then you disintegrate That seam a little bit, so you have four different threads and then I just tie a knot and it really depends on what I'm sewing.

I also tie knots when sometimes for some reason my serger and tail are too short to be uh. I looped it and I know it's going to come off and yes, so tying a knot is not a problem and I've been doing this since I started sewing with a serger and none of the

seams

have come undone. If you're wondering, the next question is about carefully sewing two

seams

together on a serger and making sure they match up and I guess the conversation is about this case where you have a sleeve with the seam here, then you have a side seam and when you insert the sleeve I want to make sure that the side seam here and the side seam here match up without separating, which if that's the case, and a lot of the videos actually show you that little tip and trick, so what you want do is when you are laying the fabric right sides together and you are ready to insert the sleeve, for example, at the point where you are trying to match the sleeve seam and the bodice seam, you want to make sure that a stitched seam is facing in this direction and a search seam faces the other direction, so when you put them together, you minimize the volume and you don't concentrate that volume on just one side, so when you actually go through the overlocker, the surgery is not going to as chewing the fabric and stretching it which usually results in the seam moving so one seam is here and then the other seam is here and then of course there is a seam in the middle and it doesn't match so if you use that little tip and the trick that I'll show you in some of my tutorials, then they'll be ready with no problems and another thing you can do as well is base them either by hand or with a sewing machine and then just remove them. by basting the stitch after your overlocker, you know your overlocker's job is done, so that's another thing you can do to make sure you carefully finish the seams where they need to meet, which is why many also asked about certain curves and certain curves neatly and how to do it and a couple of things that come to mind and just because the surgery is such a fast machine doesn't mean you can use that speed all the time and it doesn't mean that speed is an advantage forever the time too and that's especially true when we talk about certain curves, so what I usually do, especially if the curve is really sharp or very narrow, the crank, so here the crank never hangs, the crank back, always forward , always forward in At least that's what they told me at the dealership now, another thing is that you have to make sure that sometimes you raise the presser foot and then reset the fabric and then lower it again.

You can twist a couple of times or maybe go really slow with your pedal, then pick it up again, put the fabric back on, put it down and then continue sewing your curve and, yeah, it's that easy, you just have to make sure you go slow and you can drink it by hand if necessary and also lift it. your pressure presser foot and lower and reposition the fabric and lower it again so that way you can really make sure you go around the curve nice and neat and if you feel like on the curve you're cutting

more

fabric than neenah just because it's very hard to make it If that curve works on the serger, lower the knife so you don't have to worry about cutting away part of the fabric in case you need to undo the serger seam later.

Many of you also asked me. do some demos on my serger and do certain techniques and use different accessories and I would love to do it, however it misses the point because every serger is really very different, what works for my brother probably won't work for your bernina. or for your juki because there are different sergers so my

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advice would be to take your instruction manual and follow it to the end, believe me it's all there and that's what I did when I wanted to try my flat boxing that I use. enough to finish really nice hems on baby t-shirts or my t-shirts or any other knitwear and I literally followed my instruction manual step by step, try it on the leftover fabric first and yes, that's the

best

way to do it.

Actually and of course you know the same thing happens with oil cleansing or any other maintenance of your surgery. You have to stick to what your manual tells you, at least that would be my best advice because again, each one of them is different and here's another question. that came up quite a bit in the comments section and that's the difference between a serger and a cover stitch and what I can tell you is, oh boy, where to start if you want a video on what the difference is between a serger sewing machine and a sewing machine or if you need a sewing machine in your life or not, let me know in the comments below.

I have a sewing machine, it was also a gift and it is an interesting machine. Of course, let me know if you'd like to learn more about it and until next time, happy sewing, happy raising. I hope I have answered some of your questions. I gave you useful little

tips

and tricks on how to use your serger more efficiently. with better success thank you very much