Mr. Adult Beginner got me something shiny:
It’s a cover stitch, you guys.
Know what you can do with a cover stitch?
Stretchy things!
Know what’s stretchy?
Everything You Wear To Ballet Class.
so excited omg
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AWESOME! I *so* wish I had a cover stitch machine. You’ll have to show us the fancy new leotards you create!
Oh yes
i’ve been eyeing that machine and the 1000cpx for months!! i can’t afford it because i’ve been on 4 vacations this year already and have maxed out the gifts i can give myself. whoa…i just re-read that and suddenly don’t feel so down.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound too bad
That looks great!
Sorry to be so dense, but what IS a cover-stitch?
I have tried to sew stretchy-things on my own sewing machine, but it is really not very easy and does not really work. (I pull on the material whilst sewing it with a zig-zag stitch… )
It would be so cool to be able to make things properly with stretch-material!
You’re not dense!
A cover stitch is-
Ok are you wearing a t-shirt? Look at the hem. You see two parallel lines of straight stitches, right? Flip it over, you see a thread going back and forth back and forth between those two rows, right?
That’s a cover stitch.
thank you.
It must be rather a complicated machine to be able to do that – with only one needle. Impressive!
It has two needles, twice the fun!
Although you can reset it with just one needle for a chain stitch
That is so cool! Still totally and utterly do not understand sewing in the slightest, but still totally cool!
Haha! Go on with your knitting self!
I wear men’s medium for just about everything, I’m just sayin’ (wink, wink).
Very nice shiny gift from Mr AB!
I am not a sewing person, but it seems like I need to learn again so I can make clothing I like. I work with a lot of excellent quilters and sewing people.
I sense a new line of Adult Beginner dancewear coming on… or maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
We’ll see!
My mom (who made all my competitive roller skating dresses from scratch) lived attatched to one of these things. It is SUCH a fun machine to use. The threading can be a terror, but I was using this on everything and anything I could get my hands on as well. ENJOY!! (Other people might have heard it as a serger?)