I *heart* my new toy!

I am happy to say that after spending a few months using my serger for the menial task of hemming flannel blankets, I finally delved into some of the more challenging stitches last week (it was too rainy to do anything in the garden ... poor plants!). I put together a sleepsack out of lilac waffle fleece for the little person, and I am still rather chuffed about having successfully followed the pattern, re-configuring the serger many times for both overlock and coverlock stitching, and installing my very first zipper. I only broke one needle, when I was sewing in the zipper, actually, and that was on the sewing machine. It's not perfect, but for someone of my sewing ability, it comes pretty close!

Here's a close-up of how the coverstitch turned out - I used it to hem around the neck and arm holes instead of straight-stitching on the sewing machine:

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[ani]

Wow so nice!