{"id":1295,"date":"2013-04-21T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2016-10-19T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:33:47","slug":"heres-a-quick-serging-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/heres-a-quick-serging-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s A Quick Serging Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, am I the only one who stresses out about wasting thread when I\u2019m serging? My serger manual says that after I serge a length, I should serge 4 inches off of just thread. It just seems like such a waste to me. I feel like I\u2019m always going through so much thread! But maybe I just serge a lot of stuff. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m weird about stuff sometimes.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s my solution.<\/p>\n

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We use cloth tissues. I\u2019ll tell you more about them another time, just suffice it to say that they are so much nicer on runny noses. We also use cloth wipes for the baby\u2019s bottom. They\u2019re both very easy to make, and we can always use more, so I keep a stack of unmade ones beside the serger. The tissues are a single layer of flannel. The wipes are 2 layers of flannel, or even better, they\u2019re 2 layers- one of flannel and one of sherpa or terrycloth.<\/p>\n

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See? Back there, to the right in back of the serger? That\u2019s my stack of unmade wipes and tissues.<\/p>\n

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You can see I\u2019m working on the skirt from thepatchwork apron dress<\/a> in these pictures and serging onto a tissue. When I\u2019m serging an outfit or something, I will simply leave a tiny tail of serger thread, then start the next part of the outfit. Once I run out of outfit parts to serge, then I start a tissue or baby wipe right away. I\u2019ll just leave the wipe on the serger when I\u2019m not using it and when I come back, I\u2019ll finish it up and move on to whatever I\u2019m working on!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes things need a longer tail so I can fold it back on the item and secure it in place \u2013 like the end of a sleeve or a pants leg. In this case, I just leave a longer tail, like the one you can see above. I cut it close to the tissue to leave a long enough tail.<\/p>\n

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So there you go. Not a big deal, just a quick tip I found to help save thread! What sort of really simple serging tips do you know of?<\/p>\n

Chrissy Leiberan-Titus writes for Muse of the Morning.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, am I the only one who stresses out about wasting thread when I\u2019m serging? My serger manual says that after I serge a length, I should serge 4 inches off of just thread. It just seems like such a waste to me. I feel like I\u2019m always going through so much thread! But maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[193,192,182,647,600,557,28],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-serger-tips","tag-serging","tag-sewing-basics","tag-sewing-techniques","tag-sewing-tutorials","tag-sewingtechniques","tag-tutorial","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}