Book Giveaway: Successful Serging
Sergers are a wonderful tool that can give your sewing projects a professional edge. Successful Serging by Beth Baumgartel from Creative Publishing international is a great reference for everything related to these complex machines.
Successful Serging explains exactly how a serger works, its capabilities, and helpful troubleshooting tips. 150 color illustrations and photos explain techniques from basic edge-stitches, to cover stitch, to beading and couching.
Baumgartel's book also provides easy-to-follow guides to choosing thread, adjusting tension for different types of fabric, serging on specialty fabric and creating beautiful decorative edges on a serger. Though the book is written so beginners can learn the basics, Baumgartel includes tips and techniques for sergers at all levels.
One of my favorite sections of Successful Serging is the extensive guide to troubleshooting your serger. I'm relatively new to serging, and I'm not always comfortable playing with the tension or adjusting the blades, especially if I'm not sure if it will fix the problem. The charts in Successful Serging are a great way to completely breaking my serger beyond recognition.
If you're an experienced serger or just starting out, or even if you haven't started yet, Successful Serging is a great tool.
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upgraded since then, and now I would not be without one.
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Also a great book to recommend students.
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I just bought my first serger and have no idea what I'm doing or where to start.
I'm also a new Threads member!
Good Luck everybody
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Thank you for the chance to enter this contest for this book!
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I never thought a sewing machine intimidating until I met my serger. I could make up horror stories about flashing needles and cutting blades beneath towering spools of threads. However despite threading intricacies the machine is great for finished seems despite looking like a transformer wannabe. Sergers are not just deviant sewing machines!
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I love to sew & I enjoy creating garments & quilting.
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Like a lot of people ( Avitars) in these blogs I'm pretty much self taught. My serger is of the self threading variety which makes the experience so much easier. I don't use my serger to it's full advantage and I'm hoping this book will help me expand my knowedge and creativity.
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Oh, and thank you for forcing me to put my own avatar up! I don't like pictures of myself, but I have to admit they're better than using those stock pictures!!
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(I also realize why we call ourselves sewists rather that sewers! ugh!)
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Just a little scared of it right now. If I knew more about it it wouldn't intimidate me so.
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to learn more about options.
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This way, they can learn with their peers, and maybe some moms can get back into sewing, too.
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This book looks like a great tool as well - always fun to be the best-dressed at a fraction of the cost!
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Poor college student in need of all of the sewing resources she can get!
<3
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once 18 yrs ago to make curtains. I made 5 full sets with ballon valances. I don't even remember what I used it to do
So I am newbie to serging. would love to learn to use one.
and unlease my serging possiblities. would love to be picked
the winner for the book.
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Good luck to everyone!
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Sue Hauseman and I are pictured here at a Stony Brook Sewing Event. Not only is she an inspiration for sewers, he is a wonderful person.
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Also seeing that I am a DRESSMAKER/SEAMSTRESS THAT WOULD LOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SERGING HEMS , ESPECIALLY ON SPECIAL OCCASION FABRICS AND THREADS , USED TO DESIGN HEMS ON BALLGOWNS , LATIN DANCE CUSTOMES and DRESSES. PLUS, I would love to know how to do the hems by sergering with different types of threads such as MED to Heavey weighted Invisible Threads , such as something similar to using fishing line THREADS in order to make a WAVY OR CURLY HEM !!!!
PROFILE PICTURE is MY FINAL PROJECT !!!
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Keep up the good work!
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as computer savvy with the selection of avatars
to use. Additionally, although I've neglected
my serger, I am excited that THREADS has also
offered an opportunity to win another creative
book to expand all of our creative horizons.
Mahalo from Hawaii, and good luck everyone :)
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a great to have in our possession.
I really enjoy Thread Magazine and look forward to it every
month, and is the only one that I subscribe to any more.
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A good serger book is absolutely essential to learning to use your machine.
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I love Threads and the various email posts and information. Keep it coming!
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I love to serge but don't much except seams or rolled edge. Need to learn more. I have a Viking 910. I wouldn't want to do without my serger and a book giving me more ideas would be great.
Nancy
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