Sewing With SERGERS Basics

Part I

Learn to master serger basics with the help of this two hour video based on our book Sewing With Sergers. Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you:

• Close-ups of how a serger works
• Serger features
• Threading tips
• How to balance tensions
• 5-stitch types and their uses
• How to serge a seam
• Turning inside and outside corners
• Sewing in a circle
• Securing seams
• Practicing techniques on side seam pockets, easy slit sleeve placket and serging placemats
• Gathering on a serger
• Easy ripping
• A completely serged top
• The sewing order and secret tips to assure a perfect top
• PLUS: Serger Fashions!!!

A variety of sergers are used to make this video "generic".

Part II

Learn practical reasons for using your serger on garments with the help of this one hour video based on our book Sewing With Sergers. This video is the sequel to the sewing With Sergers Basics video. In it Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you:

• Easy serged details:
  -An easy Peter Pan Collar
  -An easy Convertible collar
  -Fast French Binding for a neckline
  -Serger Spaghetti straps and loops
  -"Painless" placket and cuff
  -Easy full skirt hems
• Serging elastic for lingerie and swimwear
• How to master the rolled Edge
  -Tension adjustments
  -Solutions to problems
• Lettuce rolled edge
• Rolled edging around corners for napkins
• Flat-locking
  -Tensions adjustments
  -2 and 3 thread flat-locking
• Flat-locking hems
• Crossing flat-locked seams
• Love and care of your serger
• PLUS: Serger Fashions!!!

A variety of sergers are used to make this video "generic".

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Creative Serging I & II

Part I

Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you how to maximize your serger and have FUN using it. In this two-hour video based on the book Creative Serging, see close-ups of all the tips that make decorative threads work on YOUR serger, PLUS great fashion ideas:

• Decorative threads, yarns, ribbons
• Tips for using decorative threads
• Creative tension ideas:
  balanced
  flat-locking
  wrapped edge
  blanket stitch
• Creative flat-locking ideas:
  framed and floating
  hems (loopers out, ladders out)
  flat-lock fringing
  "couching"
  smocking
  flat-locking over pearls

Part II

This is a continuation of our Creative Serging video and is also based on our book Creative Serging plus The Serger Idea Book. Marta Alto and Pati Palmer will show you MORE great ways to use YOUR serger for decorative over-locking. And you'll see a fashion show of creative clothes.

• All serger models featured
• Decorative rolled edges
  stitch length, width and tension for decorative threads
  scalloped rolled edges
  fish-line rolled edge
  rolled edge flowers
• How to feed cording & not sew through it on any model serger
• Heirloom serging
• Sweater knits
• 4-step jackets
  curves and corners
  reversing decorative thread at lapel roll line (same technique used in fixing hiccups)
• "Extraordinary" ideas
  fagoting
  making your own trim
  serge a bedroom