I reach the Wall

I meant no offense to Peggy Huff!   I love having her as my closest neighbor, and she DID come to my rescue in my neediest time of serger ownership.  But wouldn't it be fun if Georgie and Nancy were our neighbors too?

I marvel at so many differences between serging and sewing;
1.  After serging to the end of your fabric, you keep your foot on the pedal and serge several inches of thread past the needle.
2.  You can't turn sharp corners, you can't "stop-needle-down" like on a sewing machine.
3. You have to mind that knife cutting off the edge of the fabric.
4. You don't need to start with  fabric under the presser foot.  You just set it close, and the feed dogs suck it under and through.
5. And I don't think you ever want to rip out a serged seam and do it over.  Seems like it would be such a mess, plus that knife has cut off your seam allowance already.

After performing those 2 stitches, I leaf forward through the guide and decided to try the flatlock stitch.  But you have to change to the multipurpose pressure foot for that.  How do I remove the presser foot that's on there?   The guide says to press the button in the rear and the foot will fall off.  I press, nothing happens.  I press harder, I try to pull off the foot, but it's on there for good.  So I decide I'm at a wall and decide to wait.  I'm going to Anchorage in a few days.  I'll stop at JoAnn's and ask Minna Ponte.   Minna is the very nice lady who manages the Viking center there.  She knows all, and she's the one who convinced me the 936 is such a terrific machine.  I have to admit I am a little embarrassed I didn't buy it there.
       In the meantime, I try 4-thread overlock serging on some simple fleece patterns.  And I realize that's OK, but there are some areas of the patterns that simply must be sewn with a regular sewing machine, not a serger.   And I'm keeping a list of more questions for Minna too.