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Serging satin fabric to prevent fraying- advice needed

I was wanting to serge the edge of some satin fabric to prevent it from unraveling so badly as I use it place customers' handstitched items on adn then roll up until I can get to them. I tried doing a rolled edge on it with one size 9 (Singer) needle in the right hole and my upper looper loosened to 5 and lower looper tightened to 7. I set the serger (White Superlock 2000ATS) to "R" for rolled edge and diff. feed to .7 with a stitch length of 2.5 and cutting width of 5. Now the results looked OK and I was folding the fabric getting ready to put it away when I noticed the serged edge was coming off in place. I had actually cut the fabric by needle going in so frequently. Could anyone help me with settings or an approach outside of just folding and stitching the edge normally?? Thank you.

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MSMenagerie
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I will also be making a pillow with some of this type of fabric, will it pull apart at the stitched seams??? What would be a way to stabilized it to prevent this? Interfacing?

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MSMenagerie

Have you tried simply staystitching, i.e. putting a row of fairly fine stitches just 1/8" away from the cut edge? I do this to every piece of fabric which comes into my house, before I pre-wash it. If you don't like the amount of raveling you get from this, you could follow up with a three-step zigzag from the staystitching to the cut edge, just to tame the threads a little more.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

For edging for work cloths like this, there's no need to roll the edge. Just use a 4 thread overlock and a smallish stitch and leave it at that. If you MUST roll the edges, try a wider cut and a slightly longer stitch.

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