On Christmas Eve, my laptop died (I promise this will eventually be on topic!), I posted about it here and thanks to my husbands access to various testing equipment, we were able to conclusively determine it wasn't the hard drive and that we didn't have to go through a pointless reformat and were able to send it off to repair with the hard drive safely with us. It's taken it's time and the company didn't use a fast service to return it to us, plus FedEx failed to deliver it on Friday, we can't track down what happened we were in when they say they attempted delivery, but also they didn't leave a "we tried to deliver" note, so we don't know what to believe. Finally, the door bell rang at about 3pm, typically it was absolutely tipping it down with rain and I got soaked crossing the deck. Imagine my surprise when as well as my laptop, there was a serger as well! Obviously sergers don't appear entirely out of nowhere, this was a bonus offer with my new sewing machine, but I didn't expect it for another a couple of weeks and didn't know what delivery method they would use, so it was a pleasant surprise!
So now, despite saying I'd never buy a serger, I'm a serger owner! I'll be going back to find all the suggested uses offered when Sunny (iirc) asked. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions, I remember something about fleece pants, which sounds like a great idea. The instruction book looks very scary and there is a DVD as well! I'll need to buy some thread, are there any recommended brands? I'm planning to get black initially as I have a piece of knit fabric which I'm going to make a jacket from (I have the pattern) and that needs to be black and I think if I make pants, they will be a dark colour.
Looking forward to reading on Thunderbird not Google Groups!
Cheers Anne