After helping a co-worker to get the threading right on her Singer UltraLock yesterday, I asked myself, why did I get rid of my Singer serger years ago…about 10 or more years past? Well, it was tempermental, a pain, nothing like my Bernina 1630, collecting dust and taking up space.
I sold it for about the price of purchase, having only tried to use it a handful of times. Who knows if the lady that purchased it did the same.
Well, yesterday, watching Marj go zippity-do-dah on her machine had me driving right down to JoAnn’s to see the sales person in the sewing center (seperate entity from JoAnn’s by the way).
I was going to put a serger on my wish list for next year’s Christmas holiday and give to my darling hubby. After talking to her about the difference, say from this White Serger at $199.00 and the Huskvarna at $499, I took the White. What was the difference, besides color? One came with lessons, one did not. Hmmm. She said that they pretty much all thread the same way, some a bit temper inducing, others not.
I brought it home, set it on my craft table and headed out to the garden for two hours. About 6 pm, I sat down to thread it up and wha-la. In a short amount of time, I had made an apron and five two-sided cloth napkins for a friend and her new place.
It was worth the purchase…I’m a happy seamstress now!
I often wish I had a serger – they really are handy. But seeing as how I can barely use my sewing machine…!
Looks like you broke it in well! Sure makes a lot of things go quicker! Think of those bags for the girls you’ve been making! PJ bottoms are very fast too!