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Welp. Just spent an hour painstakingly rethreading the serger. Didn’t do it the cheater way, where you just tie new thread to old and pull it through. No, I unthreaded it, and pulled it through the bastarding thread points myself, following the diagram.
And it still doesn’t work. When I sew, four threads come out. It should be a chain of stitching, and it just– isn’t.
I don’t know where to start troubleshooting that, because– I mean, I followed the threading diagram, and so all the things that are meant to form loops are arranged in such a manner as to form loops, and it absolutely baffles me as to how they could fail to do so.
Easy-peasy, right? Actually it’s not terrible, because it’s so clearly labeled. But the yellow dots– there’s one that’s actually impossible to reach, you can’t actually directly touch the thing. you have to throw a loop of thread in there and then nudge it with tweezers, and then pull and hope it catches on the right thing. And then you have to do it again backward because oh right, you have to loop it backwards through the thing you can’t directly touch. of course you do. And then you have to thread it through a hole a little larger than the eye of a needle, which you also can’t directly reach, so again you have to kind of poke the thread and hope it’s sturdy enough to go the direction you wanted.
So I got it done, after much struggle. But it doesn’t fucking work, and I don’t know where to even start debugging it.
Look at those white threads just hanging there, beautifully straight! That should be a chain of stitching and it isn’t. For no discernable reason!
Yes, this is going marvellously.
Welp. Just spent an hour painstakingly rethreading the serger. Didn’t do it the cheater way, where you just tie new thread to old and pull it through. No, I unthreaded it, and pulled it through the bastarding thread points myself, following the diagram.
And it still doesn’t work. When I sew, four threads come out. It should be a chain of stitching, and it just– isn’t.
I don’t know where to start troubleshooting that, because– I mean, I followed the threading diagram, and so all the things that are meant to form loops are arranged in such a manner as to form loops, and it absolutely baffles me as to how they could fail to do so.
Easy-peasy, right? Actually it’s not terrible, because it’s so clearly labeled. But the yellow dots– there’s one that’s actually impossible to reach, you can’t actually directly touch the thing. you have to throw a loop of thread in there and then nudge it with tweezers, and then pull and hope it catches on the right thing. And then you have to do it again backward because oh right, you have to loop it backwards through the thing you can’t directly touch. of course you do. And then you have to thread it through a hole a little larger than the eye of a needle, which you also can’t directly reach, so again you have to kind of poke the thread and hope it’s sturdy enough to go the direction you wanted.
So I got it done, after much struggle. But it doesn’t fucking work, and I don’t know where to even start debugging it.
Look at those white threads just hanging there, beautifully straight! That should be a chain of stitching and it isn’t. For no discernable reason!
Yes, this is going marvellously.
