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Sergers and overlockers without the mystique. Threading order, differential feed, coverstitch, and which one to start on.

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Serger or Sewing Machine: What Each One Finishes

The question usually arrives as a choice, and it is not one. People ask whether they should buy a serger …

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Serger: What It Does That Your Machine Cannot

You finish a t-shirt on your regular machine, turn it inside out, and the seam allowances are already fraying. You …

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Serger for Beginners: The Easiest Ones to Thread

Ask around before buying your first serger and you will hear the same warning from three different people: it is …

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Threading a Serger Without the Panic

There is a line that turns up in serger reviews often enough to be a genre of its own: everyone …

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Do You Need a Serger: Five Signs You Outgrew It

Every sewing group has the same thread running through it. Somebody asks whether they should get a serger, twenty people …

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Brother 1034D Review: The Serger Everyone Starts On

Walk into a community sewing class that covers sergers and there is a good chance the machine on the table …

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