Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I solved my first serger problem!

I've made a lot of progress. I mastered completely rethreading the serger. Helpful hint -- when you are first learning to use your serger, thread it with the color threads of the loopers and needles. It REALLY helps understand what's going on. I also played around with converting from 4-thread, 2-needle to 3-thread, 1-needle. It's when I tried to go back to 2-needle I ran in to a snag. My upper looper (green) was not catching my left needle (red) thread. My left needle thread was not engaged in the serging process at all. This drove me crazy for 2 days. I tried adjusting tensions, seam widths, etc. with no luck. The only thing I had done to convert to 1-needle was to remove the left needle, so maybe the needle was not in right. When I watched in slow motion I could see that the upper looper was not catching the left needle thread. Eventually I realized that if I pushed the needle forward a bit, it caught the looper. I then referred back to the picture in the book. Sure enough, in the picture, plain as day, it shows the left needle is shorter than the right which meant I didn't have the left needle pushed up all the way. Once I adjusted it -- perfect! I'll post a picture. Maybe I'll save someone else some misery.

5 comments:

  1. I wish this saved me some time and trouble : ) Unfortunately for me, I broke my left needle and haven't been able to get it to catch since... booger, guess I'll keep searching!

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  2. Woot! Thank you!!!! This was my exact problem and ai also tried everything else first...then went to the interwebs and yours was the first post I looked at. Turns out I made the same mistake.

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  3. As you I was about to call it quits when I started looking for needle problems, Thank you, adjusting the left needle worked.... 👍👍

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  4. I was about to call it quits, and decided to look up needle problems....
    After adjusting my left needle as far up as it would go, sees like a charm again, didn't even realize what I had done after replacing the needles...Thank you.... Bravo 👍👍

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  5. Wow, THANK YOU so much!!! I had the exact same issue...been driving me crazy for weeks now. Such an easy fix. I would never have found this without your post. I m doing a happy dance now😉

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