by Daniel Johnson | Sep 18, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. I only recommend products I actually use. Long before I owned a serger, I was making a pair of pants out of fabric that frayed badly. I didn’t have the machine or the money for one at the time. So I had to figure out how to...
by Daniel Johnson | Sep 16, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. I only recommend products I actually use. The first time I sat down to thread a serger, I nearly gave up and boxed it back up. Four cones of thread, a maze of color-coded guides, and two loopers I didn’t understand yet. The...
by Daniel Johnson | Sep 14, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. I only recommend products I actually use. A while back my machine picked up a rhythmic thumping sound that showed up out of nowhere, right in the middle of a project. I stopped mid-seam, convinced something inside had actually...
by Daniel Johnson | Sep 11, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. I only recommend products I actually use. I was sewing a stretchy knit top a while back when the machine started skipping stitches every few inches. Right away I checked the obvious stuff. Nothing worked, so I checked it all over...
by Daniel Johnson | Sep 9, 2026
This post may contain affiliate links. I only recommend products I actually use. A few years back I had two machines running at the same time — my everyday workhorse and an old backup I’d picked up secondhand. The backup sat in a closet between projects, dusty,...
