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Have you just taken your serger out of the box?

Are you thinking about purchasing a new sewing machine or serger?

The lower looper continues along its path moving toward the right of the serger.

"Every serger machine sews a little different seam," she said.

In order to develop a variety of skills, all students will make a stuffed decorator bear, and a t-shirt on the serger.

Learning to use the Serger and the computerized sewing machine will be helpful in handling more difficult fabrics.

Explore several flatlocking techniques including patchwork, you'll even make lace with your serger!

Learn to adjust your tensions, and the different stitches your serger is capable of.

In the United States, the term "overlocker" has largely been replaced by "serger."

Great for serger projects too!

Although her skills as a teacher are strong in all areas of sewing, she is best known for her inspiring Serger Workshops.

Overlocker / Serger attachments are available for indivudual purchase.

Mrs. Serger specialized in early-20th-century European avant-garde art.

Fredrica made her own, and made them well, the seams were bound with a serger, the facings carefully fitted.

Many of us still use the serger as a tool to simply to finish inside seams, but a serger can do so much more!

And using the right or left needle gives narrow and wide options of most of the serger's many stitch formations.

If you have a hoop embroidery machine, stitch out some of your favourite embroideries to combine into your serger project.

In all the workshops you will learn how to use a sewing machine or serger to it's fullest potential as well as new and exciting techniques.

Or have you been using a serger for years and feel you are not maximizing the potential of your serger?

Advanced sewing techniques as self enclosed seams, serger sewing, and fashion industry sewing shortcuts will be taught.

Learn practical reasons for using your serger on garments with the help of this one hour video based on our book Sewing With Sergers.

Called the microwave of the business, a serger is used to give seams and other parts of a garment the same neat finish as commercially produced clothes.

On mass-produced clothing, the seam allowances of plain seams are usually trimmed and stitched together with an overlock stitch using a serger.

Almost half of Sew News's 230,000 subscribers own a serger, according to Linda Turner Griepentrog, the magazine's editor.

For quilters, crafters and home sewers alike they can tidily store all your fabric stashes, notions, books serger and sewing machine.

Consequently many overlock machine companies established themselves in the Northeastern United States.

The inclusion of automated cutters allows overlock machines to create finished seams easily and quickly.

This technology was a starting point for the development of the overlock machine, patented by Joseph Merrow in 1889.

This is extremely useful when sewing stretchy material, and overlock machines (heavily used for such materials) frequently have differential feed.

In the 1990s Merrow developed a new overlock machine called the Delta Class, but was never able to gain traction with the new model.

Sewing dissimilar fabrics together on production jobs to industry approved performance and quality standards using an industrial lockstitch machine and an industrial overlock machine.

MyLock 534D Series II Heavy duty two needle - three or four thread convertible overlock machine with unique differential feed device.

SIRUBA is the world's largest manufacturer of Overlock Machines with annual production in the region of 50,000 pieces to Quality Standard ISO9002.

Overlock machines with five or more threads usually make both a chainstitch with one needle and one looper, and an overlock stitch with the remaining needles and loopers.

In addition to giving homemade clothing a more finished look, overlock machines hit speeds of 1,500 stitches a minute, compared to between 800 and 1,000 stitches regular sewing machines are capable of.

Besides repairing sewing machines of all vintages, Park East fixes sergers, or overlock machines, which finish edges, make decorative stitches and sew easily on silks and knit fabrics.

Of a typical garment factory's sewing machines, half might be lockstitch machines and the other half divided between overlock machines, chain stitch machines, and various other specialized machines.

Household and industrial overlock machines are commonly used for garment seams in knit or stretchy fabrics, for garment seams where the fabric is light enough that the seam does not need to be pressed open, and for protecting edges against raveling.