Who else is ready for spring? We're getting anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow today here in RI and while I usually love snow and enjoy playing in it, I'm feeling like I need to see the sun and feel the warmth of it. I'm anxious to plant my garden and watch my veggies and herbs grow and not have to put on 20 layers everytime I step outside. Winters are long in New England, a little too long some years. Besides that, I am working on a bunch of new stuff for my etsy store and my new serger is really helping me along. I love sergers they are seriously one of the best inventions ever made for one-woman sewing operations like myself. Also I would just like to say, to all those who complain about threading the thing, READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL FIRST BEFORE YOU TOUCH ANYTHING, and then it's really not that hard. It took me 15 mins to figure it out the first time, stop being lazy ad do some reading! Because sergers are an awesome invention and it would be a pity if you, being a sewer, never tried one or bought one because you thought the threading would be too difficult or time consuming because it's not. All the reviews I read said, "Oh it's so hard to thread it" almost every one of the 190 reviews said something about threading the lower looper. And that first of all made me nervous to get one, because I was thinking what if it does take me an hour to re-thread the thing every time I need a different color and what if I can't re-thread it at all! Then I would've paid all that money for a useless machine that takes an hour to thread. SOOOO to all those thinking about buying a serger, do it! it will change the way you do business, I'm serious, it will cut hours of time off of sewing projects. And again read the entire instruction manual first and then try threading it, it will be a piece of cake if you know the terminology they're using.
Also don't think you have to spend a lot of money to get a good quality serger. Ebay always has auctions for sergers, there are some good old Pfaff's from the 80's still kicking, as well as some babylock's. Of course if you can afford, the new Babylock's, Pfaff's, Juki's, Bernina's etc, go for it because they're the best, but if you have never owned a serger and you want to get a good beginner model I would go with the Brother 1034d model, I have one and I am absolutely completely happy with it. It's a well priced, 4-3-2 thread, 2 needle model that's simple to thread and surprisingly quiet too. It has tons of good reviews. You can buy them on Amazon, Jo-Ann.com, and various other places.
Off to sewing/designing now.....
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