choosing a new sewing machine

Posted by spinningwoman on April 4, 2006, 5:01 am

I started sewing again when my children were small, and my view is that
for children's clothes especially, you *NEED* an overlocker/serger - it
will transform what you can do and make it so easy to 'run things up'.
An overlocker trims and neatens the seams as you sew, and works the
same for stretchy and firm fabrics. I am no great dressmaker at all,
but I got so I could just sit down with a bargain bundle of fabric and
produce clothes and fun costumes more or less out of my head, just by
cutting round clothes that already fit them. Maybe it was
psychological, but with the sewing machine I was always having to
obsess about the design/layout/mark seam allowance stuff, and usually
managed to screw it up somewhere, whereas with the overlocker it was a
three-step job - draw the shape I wanted, cut it out with an
approximate seam allowance, overlock it and there it was.

You still need a sewing machine for the things an overlocker won't do,
depending on how versatile your model is. Mine was the most basic so
only does seams at the edge of something - I can't sew applique stripes
on a tiger, for instance. The two things work together, but the
overlocker is magic!

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