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From: wifetod
Date: 08-08-2004, 01:51 PM (1 of 11)
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I have out my serger for a new project I am setting up for. It is a sweatshirt fleece that I put wholly nylon in the loopers for it. I forgot about tying on so I rethread it again. This time I don't have it right and it is probably in the loopers. So am I understanding that I have to pull everything out and start all 4 threads again? Just want to make sure I am not making more work for myself. It doesn't bother me to rethread because I get more comfortable with my machine but just double checking. Thanks I am asking one more question here. I have put in a 14 needle based on what I had read in a couple books and my manual. Is that the wrong size? I have rethread it three times and it will sew about 6-8 stitches then the looper threads quit looping. Just trying to figure this out. Jolene
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User: wifetod
Member since: 01-19-2004 Total posts: 149 
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 08-08-2004, 06:01 PM (2 of 11)
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Jolene, Do you have your manual or not ?? If you do not have it, run don't walk to your dealer and get it.. If that is not possible check out the www and find one ! ! This is mandatory.. The diagrams for threading are in there and you have to be exact..My thread guides are all color coded and the diagrams show the order to be threaded, and they suggest the order for each separate item (upper looper, lower looper, needle 1, needle 2 ) But they do not say that much is mandatory.. A sergers mechanism is too complex to guess at how to thread it....My manual lives beside mine and has for the 15 years that I have had it..The only time I have ever had any trouble with it is when I took it to a guild meeting and one of the officers said the tensions needed adjusting and she proceeded to do just that..(without waiting for my permission).. Took me 2 hours after I got home to get them back to normal, because I had not written the numbers down for cotton flannel..I was doing baby blankets at the time.. Taught me several lessons that day.. Sew With Love
Libby |
User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: paroper
Date: 08-08-2004, 07:18 PM (3 of 11)
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I'd almost bet that you threaded in the wrong order as LeapFrog Libby suggested. Be sure that your foot is up when you thread too because it might just be that the thread is not seated in the tension correctly.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: wifetod
Date: 08-08-2004, 08:11 PM (4 of 11)
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I got the threading figured out and it was the lower looper and I got my big loop in my right thread figured out that I didn't have it going through the tension disk right. I will get there this is a whole different animal.
Jolene
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User: wifetod
Member since: 01-19-2004 Total posts: 149
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From: paroper
Date: 08-08-2004, 08:24 PM (5 of 11)
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I've never had too many problems with my 2000 DE serger but I've more than once had to get up and walk around the room because I was frusterated with my Bernette 335. I'm sure that a lot of us have been there.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: wifetod
Date: 08-09-2004, 08:53 AM (6 of 11)
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I don't know that frustration is the problem in my case, I just don't know what I need to know. Understanding how to adjust all the tension and what to do for what is my challenge. When to adjust the stitch width and length and differential feed. I hope a couple of books that I just won on ebay auctions will help when they get here. I am so glad to have everyone to help me out too, but I am so excited to have a serger. I used for the first time on a jacket I am making for the holidays. I used it for the shoulder seams. My husband is very impressed with what it can do for clothes construction and I love the time it saves me with seam finishing. Jolene
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User: wifetod
Member since: 01-19-2004 Total posts: 149
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 08-09-2004, 09:07 AM (7 of 11)
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The only time I don't have to retread all 4 is when just the needle comes unthreaded. any other time if I don't start over it becomes a tangled mess. Barb Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: gramfel
Date: 09-18-2004, 10:46 PM (8 of 11)
| I found the easy way through my threading and tension problems was to buy a Babylock with jet-air threading! And there are no tension problems. The machine adjusts to whatever you put under it. They make the Imagine, a serger, and the Evolve, which is a serger and also does a cover stitch. I have an Evolve, and yesterday I did a heavy pillow fabric, and then serged the edge of a plastic garbage bag to make it smaller to use to glide my stuffed pillow inside the pillow casing, and it changed automatically from the heavy fabric to the thin plastic bag with no problem. Sometimes there are used ones on EBay but not often. Threading is a cinch, too. Just going in for a demo is worth the trouble! |
User: gramfel
Member since: 09-12-2004 Total posts: 23 |
From: sewcr8v
Date: 09-20-2004, 01:51 AM (9 of 11)
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Remember there is only one sequence to threading any serger: Upper looper lower looper right needle left needle Don't thread the loopers with your needles already threaded, it won't work. Just remember the order above and it will work. Sewcr8v
Keep the world sewing... |
User: sewcr8v
Member since: 09-05-2004 Total posts: 30 
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From: Sailorliz
Date: 09-20-2004, 08:06 AM (10 of 11)
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Jolene, I also have been learning this summer how to use my new EuroPro overlocker. What I did to remember how to thread, is I used a label maker (battery operated), and printed numbers 1 - 4. Then I stuck them on my machine. I will eventually remove them, but for now, I don't have to look in my book. When one of my loopers became unthreaded, I just removed the thread from the needle eyes. Then I tied on the thread and pulled through to the looper. Then rethreaded looper, then needles. (I hope this makes sense).  Happy Sewing, Liz Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
Liz Visit my photo page http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sailorlizmi/albums |
User: Sailorliz
Member since: 07-20-2004 Total posts: 386 
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From: Kylnne2
Date: 09-22-2004, 05:57 AM (11 of 11)
| Yes, just remember to thread your needles last. Sometimes just removing the needle threads and rethreading them will fix the problem. Also, don't forget that the lower looper thread goes over the upper looper. |
User: Kylnne2
Member since: 07-10-2004 Total posts: 629 |
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