Coverstitch Conquest

OK maybe conquest is too strong a word.   Back homer and armed with new enthusiasm and encouragement from Minna, I brace myself and go about changing the settings for coverstitch.  There are a lot of things to change, but it isn't so hard.   You only need the one coverstitch looper, and the threading for that is no big deal after you've been threading for the 4 thread overlock.

After carefully changing the needles to A & E, My first attempt is the wide coverstitch.  The result is not so good on the looper side.   Then the A needle thread breaks.  In order to re-thread, I figure I better unthread E as well and thread A first.   Back in business, the result is better, but still not good.  I try again, and no serging happens at all. No thread in the fabric!  Then I find out my looper is no longer threaded through that very last hole.  Try again, better, but still messy.  OK now I see I omitted one point in the middle of the looper threading.  AND, one of the needle threads is not snapped into the tension disk on top.

So this is how it goes, trial and error, but eventually.... eventually I DO get it right and I see a lovely impossibly neat stitch on my fabric!  I am SO exhilarated because I've figured it all out by myself.  Quick, I want to try the narrow coverstitch.  Hell, it's just exactly the same with the needle position changed from A to B. Duh!  And one tension adjustment, I should add.
I get it now.  I get the tension adjustments.  I get the stitch advisor recommendations too.  it's all coming together. I am SO happy!
Hmmmmmm now I can try the TRIPLE coverstitch.  It must be impossibly complex.  But NO, you just add another needle so you have 3, A, B, and E.   Dang, I'm sewing with 3 threaded needles at once, and the stitch looks incredibly perfect!

Question to serger gods: Why aren't the front 3 needles positions A, B, and C?   Just asking.

OK now I'm going back to try the double chainstitch again because it didn't really look right before.  Since I now have the looper threaded correctly.  And this time it looks good.   How amazing is that!!!