Threading the Upper Threads on a Serger Sewing Machine

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Neal Jones and I’m with A Perfect Fit Alterations, 102 Main Street, Burleson in historic old town Burleson, Texas 817-447-3522 is our phone number. Continuing with our threading with our serger we now come to our upper threads which are controlled by the needles. Now we again have the same situation where we have a tower and this time we’re going to deal with the two threads together because they’re exactly the same except that they’re split up into two different thread spools. We’re going to come through the tension devices, we’re going to come through the adjustable tension devices and again we have guides here, now these guides are just so very important I can’t emphasize that enough how important it is to make sure because if this thread were not through that guide it would affect the sewing, the quality of the stitch it may even not make the stitch. Now as the thread goes through here behind this little cover the thread would follow this path right here, there is a take up lever inside there which would take up the slack when the thread is being, the stitch is being made, as we come down through here again another guide and here another guide and here another guide and then the thread would go down and go through the eyes of the needle. Now let me point out here that we have something that is again a very big difference from a regular sewing machine and that’s that this machine will sew and make the stitch without having fabric in the machine, now a regular is not recommended that we sew without fabric in it but in this particular case we have what we call a chain off, now we have a stitch that we can show right here which if you look at that carefully you can see all the colors in there that we have up here and this is the stitch that would be on the fabric. But we call it a chain because it generates the stitch without having fabric through there and it’s one of the unique features of a serger as opposed to a regular sewing machine."