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[figment]

Auuugh!!

I just bought myself a new serger. Hooray! (I bought it in person today because the one I ordered on line was cancelled. Blah.)

But!! I am working on setting the ratzenfratzen thing up, and I had forgotten what a gigantic pain those things are to thread. No matter what I do I seem to keep on messing up the fourth thread/lower looper thread. It looks to me like I've done it right, but no, it doesn't work.

This is when I really, really miss living in the same area as my friends who sew. I could really use a sympathetic ear, and another pair of eyes to look at it and see where I'm going wrong.

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[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

I just bought myself a new serger. Hooray!
Mazel tov! I cannot even begin to tell you how much Susan loves her serger (which she's had for more than a couple of years now but from time to time she will still *bounce* as if it were new). She has used it in the making of many amazing Halloween costumes for The Wonder Gavi, as well as curtains for friends and other wonderfulnesses. *bounce*

I am working on setting the ratzenfratzen thing up, and I had forgotten what a gigantic pain those things are to thread.
Indeed and alas. And getting all the tensionings juuuuuuust right can be a bit tricky; when you don't, threads will break … whereupon the dreaded rethreading begins anew. I've grown accustomed to occasional streams of colourful invective exposition issuing from the sewing room, although they've become less frequent as the years pass.

Still and even so she loves it beyond measure. We wish the same for you and yours.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

Thank you!