Call Her By Her Name

    I decided on the perfect name for my Singer Serger a few weeks ago.  She is now known as Dolly.  I love musicals and "Hello Dolly" is one of my favorites.  This machine is just as sassy and lovable as the main character in that movie.  I have had a couple of problems with threading her but it was all operator error.  Once I figured out exactly how to thread her correctly, it was all good and she works great.   I have a light grey thread running through her right now and it works for everything I'm doing at the moment.

    I spent the last couple of days putting a three thread rolled hem on the scarves I made a few weeks ago.  Originally I put a narrow rolled hem on them with my sewing machine (without a rolled hem foot because I like to live dangerously) but I wasn't happy with the finished product, it wasn't very neat and it needed to be fixed.  So I fixed them.

     See my lovely scarves now.  In the first picture you can see the beautiful three thread rolled hem I did on Dolly.

Silky Scarves From A Half A Yard of Fabric

  I bought a yard of three different light polyester fabrics last fall and it's taken me until now to finally cut each piece in half to make some scarves for me and my daughter.   I did a rolled hem on each piece to create the scarves.  To make the rolled hem on my sewing machine I used a youtube video tutorial, link here.  These scarves are a great size and so easy to make.

    Here are the fabrics I used.

Animal Print Chiffon Scarf

   I bought a beautiful half yard of animal print chiffon today at Joann Fabrics to make myself a scarf.  I was planning to use the rolled hem foot on my Janome 7700 to hem the edges.

    I checked tutorials on youtube on how to use the rolled hem foot and I found a tutorial on making a rolled hem without using the rolled hem foot, meaning I could hem the scarf with any of my machines and I didn't have to set up the Janome.  The tutorial I used is here.   I used a pretty copper polyester thread to finish the hem.

  My scarf is finished and I love it.  I tried to take a picture of the hem, but it's hard to see in the second picture.