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This is the most comprehensive and up to date book about sergers available covering all skill levels from basic to expert. Although advanced topics are covered the book is easy to navigate and understand. Many people find threading a serger to be difficult, so an entire chapter is dedicated to threading and basic use. The book goes on to cover advanced topics such as troubleshooting, adjustment, maintenance & repair. Covered in-depth are adjusting tension, stitches, decorative stitches, needles, feet, thread and more. From home sergers to industrial overlock machines and coverstitch machines many of the latest machines are featured with insights on features, capabilities and best use for each model or class of machine. Buying a serger can be frustrating and time consuming because of the overwhelming number of features and types of machines that are available. The buying recommendations will help you cut through the confusion and figure out what features you really need. Most people have a love/hate relationship with their serger. Everything is great when the machine is working good but most people hate them when frustrating problems arise. This book will empower you to eliminate the hate part of the relationship and put you in control of the machine. In depth sections on adjusting tension and troubleshooting will help you handle most problems (and know which problems not to tackle). Above all sergers are creative tools. If you know and understand the tools you can use them efficiently and effectively. For sewing machines check out our top selling companion book "The Sewing Machine Master Guide" and for sewing machine basics "The Sewing Machine Quick Guide." The Serger and Overlock Master Guide was written as both an eBook and print book using optimized reflowable formatting for a perfect presentation on small or large devices. Everything from a basic eBook reader or Kindle to a large screen PC or Mac is supported. Why the low price? Electronic publishing and print-on-demand is used with distribution to more than 80 countries worldwide. The pricing reflects this new technology and distribution model. 9780990022756 0990022757 158 BOOK Machine sewing NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YHqaoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en | Author: Clifford L. Blodget | Publisher: Blodget Publishing, Llc. | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2014 | Number of Pages: 156 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0990022757 | ISBN-13: 9780990022756
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There I was, happily serging along, trying to get one more outfit done before leaving for vacation, when all of a sudden I heard that dreaded sound, "crunch!" Ugh, I ran over a pin, AGAIN. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it isn't pretty...you probably know exactly what I mean. T
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I'm going to give my bathroom a face-lift. Want to follow along? I started to call this The Crack Shack Bathroom Makeover, but that's a little extreme. My house isn't THAT bad. It is however, a double-wide trailer from the '70s so making this room into a silk purse ain't going to be easy. Here is the grand tour: Wall facing you as you first walk in: I think I've mentioned before that we are renters and that my landlady loooves those stick-on borders. Each room has a different theme. And look! This room has a matching valance. yay And yes, that's a random patch of wood-grain contact paper on the wall. I think someone had the idea to put that around the room with some trim to look like faux wainscoting and that's as far as they made it. Sink area/vanity: That medicine cabinet/mirror combo has got to go. When you slide open the flimsy little cupboard, Hello Kitty band-aids and Pepto start flying out at you. A better look at the cabinet: It used to have wood-grain contact paper on the drawers (and only the drawers, but not the door ??) and that was the first thing to go. The other first step was the ceiling. The metal part of the light fixtures used to be brass. They got a shot of white spray paint along with the fan cover. And I painted the dingy ceiling with white paint. Next step: tearing down the wallpaper (which is the driving force behind this project, it was peeling off in huge chunks) and it's going to be nasty. I'll be tracking the budget too. Tally so far: $0 (I already had the white paint and spray paint)
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I know, I know... I fell off the face of the earth. If my blog were vegetation it would be withered and dead several times over. But really, nothing super exciting happens. And whenever I make awesome things, well, it usually takes me at least a week to complete one item because I'm chasing after an almost-two-year-old and an almost-five-year-old. So why am I making an appearance? I'm glad you asked! Once upon a time... we were making holsters. I was serging a holster when that durn thing broke my serger. Two needle plates and four visits to the shop later, my poor serger still couldn't work properly. It's a 4-thread serger. A Brother 1034d to be precise. It's a very common machine. VERY. People LOVE it (or hate it). Well, my poor machine was only able to serge with three threads. This went on for over two years. This week I was making a super cute skirt for my daughter for Valentine's Day. I mean, I LOVE this pattern and I was so excited I thought I'd try some woolly nylon in my upper looper while I did rolled hems. OH MY HEAVENS. Worked BEAUTIFULLY. I had finished two ruffles and I was about 2/3rds of the way done with the third and FINAL ruffle when BAM! My machine made a horrible noise and when I turned the hand wheel it wouldn't make a full rotation. I cried. Upon closer inspection I saw the upper looper had been knocked out of place (how? I have no clue). So I was able to get it back in place by adjusting the screw on the side (uses the hex wrench that comes with the machine). I got back to work and my rolled hem looked like poo. I was so sad. My machine was still making a funky noise so I decided to quit and move to my sewing machine to do a regular hem. Once I finished that, I went back to my serger and got it set up to do regular serging. I cried again. It wasn't completing stitches. So I fiddled with things and searched how to fix the timing. Well, wouldn't you know, there's hardly a thing on fixing serger timing?! It's like a complete mystery! I did find this YouTube video helpful in that I could figure out what to mess with on my own machine. But there really isn't a lot out there for Brother 1034d! I was able to adjust my upper looper's timing and I fixed it! I finished my daughter's skirt and serged all the seams to a beautiful finish. Then I got to thinking, "If I just fixed my upper looper's timing to stitch again, could I make my machine use four threads again?" The next day and three hours into working and my machine wouldn't do squat. All my hard work to make it stitch again and now the threads were just passing ships in the night, never to mingle again. I cried. I cussed. My daughter asked if I wanted to take a break. Yes, sweet child. Yes. So I hung out with the munchkins for a while and then it hit me.... What if I look at pictures of people threading their WORKING machines to see where everything lines up???!!! Hot diggity dog! I got it to stitch again! But the lower looper was still a mystery to me. I took apart that section and discovered a small family of dust and lint bunnies thriving over there. YIKES! After doing some meticulous cleaning, I turned the hand wheel to see what moved which parts. And there it was. Could it be as simple as loosened that? Oh yeah. Now I was cookin' with grease. I kept getting stuck somewhere though. Everything seemed to line up, except one thing (well, TWO). The needles. They just didn't seem right. A few turns of the hand wheel and there's where I needed to work next. (I'm going to pause and say that ALL of this needs to be done with the machine OFF and UNPLUGGED). A couple hours after my break, I placed all the casings back on and went for a test sew. I cried. I looked at my daughter and told her to hug me. She gave me a tight squeeze and said "Don't worry, Mommy, you'll get it." I pulled back from her and held up my scrap fabric and her face lit up. Four threads. Beautifully stitched. I was so elated. I did a few more test stitches to make sure it wasn't a fluke. I took a picture and sent it to my husband and my oldest sister. Then I posted it all over FaceBook. Ah, the virtual pats on the back I received from one of my sewing groups and the serger help forum made me even more proud of myself. I wanted to share this feeling of happiness. I thought "If I can take apart my machine and get it to work after the repair folks DIDN'T, then maybe there are people out there who are in my shoes and just need to know that someone without professional training CAN do it!" I swear, I think I'm related to TinkerBell. This is the second machine I've fixed in just a few months. I was able to get a Sewing Genie working that NEVER worked, that way my daughter could practice sewing. Sew, without further ado, here's a whole bunch of pictures! *Disclaimer: Taking apart your machine could void any warranties you may have and could end up making a bigger problem (aka $$$). I'm not a trained technician. I have no association with Brother. I was just fed up with my machine and thought I'd try fixing it before getting a new one. You will need: - Philip's head screw driver - Flat head screw driver - Hex wrenches (sizes 2.5 & 3) - Regular wrench (not sure what size, I used an adjustable wrench) - Needle-nose pliers First of all, you'll want to remove the front casing. It's held on by three (3) screws. One (1) on the front and two (2) on the back. Front screw Back screws Now you'll want to gently tug on the casing and you may need the flat head screw driver here... You'll also want to push the little tab to the right (arrow pointing at it) to help remove the casing. Very gently pry the casing off. It should "pop" loose Push that tab over slightly so you can wiggle the casing off It may help to turn the hand wheel a little to move the crank shaft and the needle-thread-holder out of the way (you'll know what I'm talking about after that casing is off). Now to remove the casing for the lower looper there are three (3) screws to worry about. The first one you don't have to remove ALL the way, unless it's just easier for you. We only need this one piece loosened so we can get the casing off. Just loosen this one so this piece wiggles to allow the casing off The next screw (starred in red) will have to be removed completely. It's best to have the stitch width lever all the way at 7 so you can get to the screw easier. Once you have the screw removed, the lever just pulls off. Once the lever is out of the way, remove the last screw (circled in blue) Remove the starred screw completely to remove the lever. Then remove the circled screw Now you'll be removing the casing for the lower looper. You want to push the piece in front of it down slightly and then pull the casing off. See how I didn't remove that little piece? Just loosened it so we could push this part down to remove the casing My pictures will look slightly different since I forgot steps, but before you can work on the lower looper, you'll want to remove your stitch finger, your presser foot, and your needle plate. For the needle plate you'll be using the flat head screw driver. You can remove these before or after you remove the casing, but you'll need to remove them to work on your lower looper Once all that is removed you'll have something like this sitting in front of you... MOST of the guts. Now, if you don't know if you really need to work on your lower looper's timing, or if it's just off by a hair, you can adjust the height of it first. For this, you'll be removing one more piece which contains two (2) screws. To make it easier to adjust the height of the lower looper, you'll need this piece out of the way Once that piece is removed, you'll want to LOOSEN, not remove, the height adjuster screw. This screw has space above and below it. The arrow points to the screw. You'll be able to adjust the part that is circled Alrighty, you've made it this far because you're probably wondering about the TIMING. Well, here are each of the places you'll be able to adjust timing. For your UPPER LOOPER, you'll need hex wrench 2.5 and you'll be LOOSENING, NOT removing, two (2) hex screws. LOOSEN. Do NOT remove. These will allow you to move your Upper Looper. For your LOWER LOOPER, you'll need either a regular wrench or an adjustable wrench (I used an adjustable, but if you have the right size regular wrench it'll be so much easier) and needle nose pliers. Loosen, DO NOT REMOVE, the nut. You'll need the needle nose pliers to manipulate the shaft of the lower looper from side to side. In my case, I also need the flat head screw driver to GENTLY pry the shaft away from the machine a hair. LOOSEN the nut and use pliers to manipulate the lower looper shaft from side to side. For your NEEDLES, you'll need hex wrench 3 and you'll be LOOSENING, NOT removing, one (1) hex screw. You'll want your needles as far up as they'll go before you can get to the hex screw to loosen. LOOSEN this hex screw to adjust needle timing Now, I know I said this earlier, but it's VERY important to make sure your machine is OFF and UNPLUGGED before working on it. My dumb self went to loosen this screw with the machine on and burnt the tar out of my finger on the bulb casing. PLEASE exercise caution and learn from my mistake! And now I will show you pictures of my machine with correct timing! Needles in UP position, followed by a close-up of Upper Looper in relation to Needles while in Needle UP position Needle UP position Upper Looper in relation to needles Needles in DOWN position Needle DOWN position Needle DOWN position (alt view) After turning the wheel, here's a look at when the loopers pass each other Loopers passing each other With any luck this will help at least ONE more person fix their machine! And you'll have FOUR working threads!!! YAY for FOUR threads!!! These settings work for me, but your machine may vary slightly And here's my hex wrench set in case you were wondering 2.5 for the UPPER looper, and 3 for the Needles I really hope this was helpful! Until next time, Happy Crafting! -Courtney
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