Love my Serger/Hemming Jeans
April 13th, 2008 by Jen Love
Tada! This is the beautiful serger that I got for Christmas! (Thanks family, I am finally using it!) It was intimidating to even get it out of the box but I am hoping that it will really make my sewing look more professional and many projects much quicker, so it’s plugged in now!
One of the first uses I had for it was hemming a pair of jeans. Apparently alterations are a dying art and everyone that enters my house and sees my machine ends up coming back with pants to shorten. I hate turning denim over twice and breaking multiple needles trying to get over the side seams, so I let the serger cut the fabric and edge the bottom of the jeans. Then I just had to turn them under once and sew the hem on my regular sewing machine. It went really quickly so bring them on friends, I’m equipped now!
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April 13th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Neat machine. I always see those in the sewing stores, but didn’t know what they did. Cool site too…I like that freezer paper stenciling.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I’ve only had the privilege of working on a serger once in my life. It was such a neat machine, but they are intimidating!
I totally want to learn how to make alterations. Being short I always need to have things hemmed. I’m not sure how to learn though.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Meredith-I will try to do a tutorial soon on hemming. The biggest challenge is measuring and marking correctly!
April 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for the tip. I’m going to use MY new serger to hem my stepson’s jeans. He bought them super long, then walked around on the bottoms of them until they shredded. Now I can bring them back to life!
April 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I think I’m finally getting what a serger does. I have a grand-daughter arriving in July and I can feel those moods coming on that it’s time to start sewing.