Overlocker, yay or nay?

[CardiCorgi]

For the owners of overlockers, is it worth it? I've found some nice children's fabrics and made a couple of t-shirts for dd. I just used one of the overlock stitches on my normal sewing machine, but now have a very big hankering for a overlocker. Did anyone buy one and regret it or was it a good buy? What features do you look for apart from ease of threading?

But that's one thread, not 4........I think its the zig-zagging about of the different threads that confuses me!

have you done that exercise where you get a spool of red, yellow, green and blue and put them to match the guides? It really helps you understand how to balance tensions... like if I move this tension knob and then sew what happens? What if I do this... I got a couple of old stained holey tshirts and destroyed them sewing when I first got my serger.

As for it being 4 not one, it is still muscle memory, when you have done it a million times you don't even think about it.

I got confused looking on Google - it kept showing 4 or 5 threads where there were only 2 or 3 threads. it was werid

I wonder whether US terminolgy is different here as well.

Oh god, DD is ripping something up...

phew, just pulling the posters off my A-board.

There are two or three NEEDLE threads but then there are two loopy ones on the top and bottom of the seam too. Mine is a four thread so the regular stitch is two needles and one loopy on top and one loopy on bottom.

but that's what I mean - they didn't fit.
icall a 4 tgread one with 2needles and 2 loopers.

unless us machines have 3 of each or more, something ain't right.

I'll find a link, hang on.

it was the information about different numbers of threads that confused me

never mind. they've updated it since the last timei saw it and I think they've changed the confising terminology.

anyway!

I've decided to have a go at shirring.
I've had a roll of shirring elastic for years but mum said it was really hard and it pit me off.
so I'm doing thelittle dress they did, but with little puffed capped sleeves (if there's enough fabric for that. if not, it'll be floating sleeve shoulders.

I've already cut out the two panels and sewed the side French seam. I'll get my shirring elastic (or new if it looks degraded) from the shop (where my sewing room is) tomorrow.

You have a sewing room?

I have a sewing room too!

my sewing room is upstairs in my shop.
it was brilliant when I made my wedding dress. it is currently full of toys (overstock)
my sewing equipment is partly at home on the dining table and partly in the sewing room.

I have a pigsty of doom, but I suppose it was originally a room.