When I retired seven years ago, my serger died. Jim retired two weeks ago; my serger died. Now, I have a heavy duty Brother. It threads a bit differently than my old Brother serger, but it’s just a matter of learning new threading. There’s no Dreaded Bottom Looper. There’s a lever that comes out, put the thread in the guide, turn the hand wheel so the lever goes back inside, and then thread the bottom looper the same as threading the upper looper. This time, the instruction manual has good instructions for how to use the attachment that puts elastic on something. A few practice runs, and I had the settings all worked out.
For some reason, my sewing machine, Pfaff Quilt Expressions 4.2, refuses to sew on sport lycra. It sewed on other sport lycra, but it wouldn’t sew on this sport lycra. I unthreaded the machine, cleaned the machine, put in a new needle, still wouldn’t sew. I tried a stretch needle, a ballpoint needle and a universal needle. Still wouldn’t sew. I had been sewing a casing in my undies, then threading the elastic through the casing. PITA. With the elastic attachment for the serger, I can make a pair of undies in an hour. This is very good because I was running out of decent undies.
I made these using fabric I designed and had Spoonflower print on sport lycra. My Spoonflower shop is here: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/deb_thuman I just got back seven yards of proofs and I now need to put 294 new designs in my Spoonflower shop.
I use wooly nylon in both loopers when I’m sewing on stretch fabric such as lycra. Where other threads won’t stretch, wooly nylon will.
I want to experiment with other types of thread. I’d like to be able to get the same stretch but with a metallic thread.
It rained today. And yesterday. And the day before that. We’re still about 4″ below average rainfall. That’s a big deal when the annual precipitation is a bit more than 8″. I had a chance to photograph raindrops.
If you look carefully at the water drops, you can see an upside down image of the stem.
No, it’s not a photo of an experiment gone very wrong. It’s raindrops on an agave leaf showing the texture of the leaf.
Here’s the rest of the leaf.
I’m linking with Nina Marie here: http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/
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