you really should listen to them.... they know when you are messing up... but sometimes when you haven't even been in the sewing room let alone picked up anything to sew in months, you forget that lesson.
Today, I decided to attempt to use my serger for the first time. Was a pitb getting it threaded to work well. Oh and putting the presserfoot down is a good idea too. practiced with a few pieces of jeans i had cut up to make a heavy quilt some day.
well. got it working finally so i decided to start on a skirt for DD2... one of those where you cut the legs off of jeans and then pleat some fabric and serge it to the remaining waist area of the jeans. Spent a LONG time pinning the fabric to the jeans waist working on the pleats, getting everything even and pinned well.
stuck it in the serger. Life is great! for about 2 inches til i forget to take out a pin soon enough and it glides up to the cutting edge. Stop serger in time. find pliers and get pin out. decide to baste the pleats with my sewing machine. Get about a quarter of the way round and the phone rings... get off the phone and start again.. get maybe half way round and the bobbin is empty. Fix it. finish up and whalla this will look nice ... wait......... NOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i basted it but it wasn't right sides together. so the seam was on the outside and the fabric i'm adding was backwards ............... frog stitch, repin the right way. baste again.... attempt on the serger again and good for about and inch an then get rat's nests... re thread the serger and nothing. the thread isn't feeding i'm just making holes. One of the threads has come undone again....
so............. I quit for the day. maybe someday when a serger-savy person comes to my home they can give me a lesson. Today i am going to listen to the sewing fairies and angels and work on something else.
maybe my hand applique will behave tonight.