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- noun Plural form of
serger .
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Examples
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It might be that my sergers been on the edge for a while and a tension knob is clearly broken.
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I'm on a clothing list; one person posted that her mother distributed a number of sewing machines and sergers to her children before her death.
lesbians, catboys, ukes, yarn and harlots: The Knitting Post...at last! Elizabeth McClung 2009
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After she died, there were more sewing machines and sergers to purge from the house; her dining table was a sheet of wood on a bale of fabric; and in general, there was enough fabric in the house to stock a small to medium sized fabric store.
lesbians, catboys, ukes, yarn and harlots: The Knitting Post...at last! Elizabeth McClung 2009
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And the things that sergers can do well, such as overcasting raw edges, making blind hems, rolled, hems, and the like, a standard sewing machine can usually do, although it may take a bit more fiddling.
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People who love their sergers are often folks that quilt, make activewear and sew with polar fleece and knits often.
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I was heartened by all the folks who got ironing boards, dress forms, sewing machines, and sergers ... except for poor RavenzTarot, whose daughter got a new sewing machine after trashing RavenzTarot's old machine.
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I was heartened by all the folks who got ironing boards, dress forms, sewing machines, and sergers ... except for poor RavenzTarot, whose daughter got a new sewing machine after trashing RavenzTarot's old machine.
December 2008 2008
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I have a serger, but it is about 10 years old, so there are probably lots of things that sergers do now that they didn't do when I got mine.
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That having been said, my opinion of sergers is that a good "dressmaker" model of sewing machine basic utility stitches, good buttonholes, but nothing fancy is superior to a serger.
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Now when I think about the two friends who rave about their sergers, I realize that one is always making dance costumes for her ballet school and the other does a lot of upholstery projects... so, yeah, different sewing from what I do.
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