My new toy!
Dannielle Beitzell
serger! Her father has moved from his large house into a retirement
apartment, and has given up his sewing equipment. My MIL received the
serger, and the moment I saw it I started drooling! I had never asked her
that big of a question before...."Could I ...borrow the serger until you
come up in the spring to see the baby?"
And she said . . . YES! She hadn't used it, and didn't know if she would
use it, and she knows she'll get it back from me in about four months or so.
Now I get to play with it and see what I can do with it to figure out if I
really need to buy one for myself!
Now, has anyone every used a serger to make quilts? How many projects can I
get done between now and the birth of the baby? (Don't forget how much I
have to do just for the baby as well as work/church/husband and all of that!
Plus I still sleep a lot!)
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Diana Curtis
serger. She liked it for homespuns, and other applications I cannot remember
at the moment.
On this group the consensus seems to be that the serging adds to much bulk
to a seam allowance to make it fun to quilt through.
Sergers have lots of other fun uses. I havent played with mine a lot but
if you make clothing its invaluable.
Congrats on getting to test drive such a fun toy!
Diana
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>........ On this group the consensus seems to be that the serging adds to much
bulk
>to a seam allowance to make it fun to quilt through. ..........
My first ever "real" quilt (as in pieced blocks) was done on my brand new
serger. The problem is, it is a pinwheel block pattern and the intersections
of all those serged blocks is about the size of Mt. Olympus -- LOLOL! I
think, if you do some sort of block that doesn't ahve a load of points
intersection AND if you machine quilt the finished project, using a serger
would work.
I have never used the serger again to make a quilt but I do use it to serge
the edges of finished quilts just before I put on the binding. Also, it is an
absolute lifesaver for just about every other type of sewing! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
.
PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< Queen of Kitties
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Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs!
Polly Esther
fabric. Fold it in half so it sort of measures 45" x 45" or thereabouts so
you're almost creating a nice square. Pin it together all around. Cut the
corners rounded. Use a dinner plate to draw the curved corners if you want
to. Serge around. Put the pins where you can see them and remove them before
they go to the blades. Please.
Makes a grand fine receiving blanket. You can use flannel, plisse,
batiste, gingham, seersucker.
After that, the sky's the limit. You can stitch on lace, eyelet, blanket
stitch, crochet, or nothing. I don't know how many would be too many. You
can just use a single layer. You can . . . I think you've got the idea.
Enjoy the serger. They are a challenge and they are worth it. Polly
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one piece, plain white for the other piece, serged all around in red. The
woman who made these for DD#1 chose bright colors for the printed fabrics,
but they are different. These are the bestest blankets ever! Each child has
used them, they look just as nice as when they were new. Spike and Giles
each claimed one for their own, and refuse to sleep under anything else,
including the quilts I made them!!! When it is cold, I am allowed to layer
blankets on top of the flannel blankies.
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still in use. The babies in this family are grown or nearly so. When we were
traveling this summer, I got to enjoy a lovely baby shop in Tennessee. The
price tags really took my breath away. There were some "just serged" fleece
blankies for $18. No kidding. Polly
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>
> Now, has anyone every used a serger to make quilts? How many projects can I
> get done between now and the birth of the baby? (Don't forget how much I
> have to do just for the baby as well as work/church/husband and all of that!
> Plus I still sleep a lot!)
>
> --
> Dannielle from NY
> http://www.beitzell.com/dannielle/index.htm
>
Hi Danielle,
I use the serger to make lap quilts for the nursing home and
VA Hospital. If pushed I can make 3 quilts in 2 days. This
is using the "6 Hour Quilt". You serge the front, batt and
back together in 6" sections (similar to log cabin). Then
add a binding and your finished.
I don't remember the website, maybe you could google to find
it,or try serger quilts.
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Bonnie, the Quilt Lady
NJ
frood
smaller, and just one layer of flannel. The rectangular ones were better
than the square ones for swaddling. My children all liked being closely
swaddled when they were very young, until about 6 weeks (longer for Giles,
perhaps because she was so small), so they could sleep. You certainly can't
have enough receiving blankets! In addition to swaddling blankets, they were
used for impromptu lay baby on the floor blankets, public restroom changing
table covers, bibs, sun shades...!
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have a serger. Every baby should have at least one.
Christina
Butterfly
with a serger--had it Pro-quilted and she did the
'mattress/store-bought-comforter quilting design'--you know--the undulating
from one end to the other wave.....works a treat. Quilt isn't for 'show' its
for use. Haven't had a bit of trouble with it---this quilt gets machine
washed and dried as often as needed.
HTH
Butterfly
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(http://www.kayewood.com), she has the book for sale at her web page, look
for the 6 hour quilt link. But I saw her as a guest on Simply Quilts on
HGTV, (www.hgtv.com) a few years ago...Rose
Dr. Quilter
ideas? I have tons of onesies, outer clothing, socks. a couple of
sleepers. One very nice thick blankie, 4 receiving blankets, 4 crib
sheets, one crocheted blankie. One hooded towel. 4 bath cloths.
I have no idea how much stuff a baby needs.... :o)
Polly Esther wrote:
> Here's one you need to do 12 or 18 times Before Baby. Take 3 yards of
> fabric. Fold it in half so it sort of measures 45" x 45" or thereabouts so
> you're almost creating a nice square. Pin it together all around. Cut the
> corners rounded. Use a dinner plate to draw the curved corners if you want
> to. Serge around. Put the pins where you can see them and remove them before
> they go to the blades. Please.
> Makes a grand fine receiving blanket. You can use flannel, plisse,
> batiste, gingham, seersucker.
> After that, the sky's the limit. You can stitch on lace, eyelet, blanket
> stitch, crochet, or nothing. I don't know how many would be too many. You
> can just use a single layer. You can . . . I think you've got the idea.
> Enjoy the serger. They are a challenge and they are worth it. Polly
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a wall hanging, and I cut a tablecloth with embroidered butterflies to
make curtains for her nursery. Plan to finish those today. I guess with
a serger and some flanelette you could make cheap receiving blankets,
and though I am not sure what fabric to use, cloth diapers to be used as
burp cloths...
Dannielle Beitzell wrote:
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Polly Esther
On a quiet morning. Let's get started. If you are doubling the fabric, you
can birth it. Now for a single thickness, you can do it the neat but boring
way. Press up 1/4" or so on all four edges, stitch. Do it again. For real
fun, learn how to use the hemmer foot on your SM. It is the one that looks
like it has a whirly sort of cork screw bottom. When you have a girl, you
are going to need to know how to use it anyway, this is a good place to
practice. (This is assuming that girls still wear ruffles, at least
sometimes.) Polly
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melinda
> My babies all slept under blankets I made like this except I did not
> have a serger. Every baby should have at least one.
My DS umakes his cot quicker and more thouroughly than I ever did, according
to DM anyway. When it gets cooler here he'll be going back into sleep
bags!
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melinda
> how do you do this without a serger? zig zag around the edge? any other
> ideas? I have tons of onesies, outer clothing, socks. a couple of
> sleepers. One very nice thick blankie, 4 receiving blankets, 4 crib
> sheets, one crocheted blankie. One hooded towel. 4 bath cloths.
> I have no idea how much stuff a baby needs.... :o)
I didn't either, but did well with what we got and what was given to us.
Unless there are health problems, hopefully not, be aware that she will
grow like a weed for the first 6 months. DS is now into size 0-1, which
I think the manufacterers believe is the start of toddler sizes!?!
Yo might need more towels for bath time, I find it easier to dry DS's
head with a hand towel and the rest of him with a smallish adult towel.
If the sleepers are like sleeping bags, then two should be enough to
start with. DS wasn't keen on being wrapped/swaddled, by six weeks he
was being put into sleep bags to keep him covered - it was winter here.
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Dannielle Beitzell
baby a quilt - it's a pieced one. I have thoughts of making a fleece bag
(since it will still be cold when baby arrives) and a sling to carry baby
in....I have a ton of receiving blankets already, but I am going to have to
have a whole bunch of other stuff too. I need to price compare to see if it
is cheaper to make or buy. 9 times out of 10, it's cheaper to buy the item
than the fabric and supplies....
I am also in the process of making a set of Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls for
baby as well.
How about you? When are you due again?
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Dr. Quilter
blankets for 10 bucks, I think the think flannel would have been more
expensive even with a 50% off Joann's coupon... I think I will make a
fleece bag too, or a bunt (how do you say that? I ran out of steam
midword, it seems).
Dr. Quilter
don't have that much free time once they get here, uh?
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you might go thru several a day depending on several factors.... and if
they do daycare you'll need to have spares to send with v.s. at home you
can start laundry at any point it looks low and wrap them in a blanket
until the clothes dry if necessary. :-)
Jan
melinda
> once a week? no, just kidding. whenever possible, but I understand you
> don't have that much free time once they get here, uh?
Only when they're sleeping!
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Dannielle Beitzell
still isn't long enough to get everything done and it isn't soon enough for
the baby to get here!!!
There's no way to make 5 blankets for $2 each if you buy the fabric. So
it's going to be interesting to see what I need to make vs. what I need to
buy. Who has time to do all of that shop comparing!?
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receiving blankets and the 4 sheets in ONE day. (Babies leak ...
often ... from all orifices.) So you need more of those. Towels?
Hooded are nice, but she can use the family towels too. Bath
Cloth? What is that? As far as the blankets and afghans, well ...
you ARE a quilter!! How many quilts have you made for your DD2B?
PAT in VA/USA
Dr. Quilter
leave and mom coming after that.... we have TONS of clothes, I can't see
a problem with that, unless they all turn out to be the wrong size! :o)
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special for her that I can't get myself to choose a design!
Pat in Virginia wrote:
> As far as the blankets and afghans, well ...
> you ARE a quilter!! How many quilts have you made for your DD2B?
> PAT in VA/USA
>
melinda
> we'll try to postpone the daycare as much as possible with my maternity
> leave and mom coming after that.... we have TONS of clothes, I can't see
> a problem with that, unless they all turn out to be the wrong size! :o)
It's better that they be too big than too small! She'll grow into the
stuff that's too big quicker than you'd think.
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Lizzy Taylor
the rest of the time they are too big or too small.
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Pat in Virginia
from there. Baby won't care. She will NOT come back in thirty
years and complain that the quilt wasn't special enough. If you
can get hold of the Parade Magazine from yesterday's paper, read
the article about too many choices and problems with making
decisions. Interesting. I think my new motto will be: just do
something!!
PAT
Dr. Quilter
to feel guilty about them if I start new stuff and not work on those..
I have the millenium quilt to finish, a hand pieced tumbling blocks for
my roomate in grad school, a partridge in a pear tree aplique wall
hanging I started after my aplique class, and Sofia's stained glass
buttefly wall hanging that I am machine quilting (actually going around
the 'lead' with aplique stitch, which I haven't really mastered yet).
all those are in different stages of progress.
then I need to make a quilt for another friend's baby (anybody seen
nice, funny wolf fabric? his second name is Loup - her father's is Wolf,
I presume Wolfgang, they are german- but all I find are woodsy kinds of
prints, too serious for a baby quilt...), and I have several old blocks
I wanted to make an 'antique' quilt from, I need to aplique the dresden
plates onto muslim, some need centers as well (and hand quilt).
besides, my brother asked me to make him B&W pillows for his new
apartment, I am making curtains for Sofia's room from an embroidered
tablecloth I bought in a yard sale (have valance and one curtain ready,
need to finish second one, but since it had a large stain I had to be
creative with the cutting...), should do something about the guest room
before my parents get here, and I want to change the covers of the
living room pillows (aplique art nouveau flowers, maybe done by machine
now that my Brother does things I never imagined a machine could do!).
And today work starts again, at least until Sofia arrives (I naively
went to the lab friday, but nobody felt like working, being a 'sandwich'
friday and all).
Pat in Virginia wrote:
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