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sewing help - serging stitch on regular machine??

sophabellesophabelle
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so i made my first successful fitted diaper!  *pats self on back*

i don't have a serger.... but my machine has a serging/pin leaf stitch on it... so i decided to try it out and see if it would work better than a zigzag as far as fraying goes... 

which it did to an extent, however, i couldn't get it to look quite right.  according to my manual, it says i may need to tighten the tension to achiieve the desired look... i did tighten it some, but didn't notice much difference.  the main thing i found that helped was  adjusting the stitch length, but i still couldn't get it quite right..

hopefully you can see it in the pic, but it's like they're too close together and then there's a space, and then too close together, and so on.    by adjusting the stitch width to pretty much as close together as i could, i got this result, which was the closest i could get to a "serged" look... any farther apart in length and i still got a similar result only worse... it was still bunched together, then a gap, bunched together, then gap, but they were too far apart if that make sense... basically it kind of looked more like a zigzag than below.  

i don't know if that made sense, but if anyone could help me adjust my machine to get a more "serged" look i'd appreciate it!  

and btw, it sure did use up a ton of thread!  but i do think it worked better than a regular zigzag.  but i think i still want a serger! :-(

 

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Re: sewing help - serging stitch on regular machine??

  • jennterrelljennterrell
    are you using an overcast foot? Mine has one, and it makes my overcast stitches come out great. It's hard to explain, but it has a little pin that catches the stitches so that it doesn't put tension on the fabric edge. I have a Bernina machine, and i've never messed with the tension, just the stitch length.  I adjust mine to a pretty short length and wide width, but yours almost looks too short to me. And yes, it does use a ton of thread!
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  • sophabellesophabelle

    hmm.. i don't think i have an overcast foot but i'll double check.  i've got a ton of extra feet w/mine so it's possible i do, but i'll have to dig through them w/my manual to make sure lol. 

    i'll check next time i get up (jts starting to get harder to get up these days lol)

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  • blissfully_caffeinatedblissfully_caffeinated
    I agree.  Mine look like that if I forget to switch to the overcast foot. It came standard with my machine but that's not always the case.
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  • sophabellesophabelle

    is this the overcast foot?  i can't quite tell from the picture, but this is the closest foot i have to the picture.... 

     

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