Greeting cards and sergers

My order from Blush Publishing has arrived, yay! You can now buy the full set of four cards in my Etsy shop for $12 or get them individually for $3.50. I'm working on more designs for this card line now.

I've been pretty pleased with how these cards have been selling on Etsy, and the Blush people tell me that they've been selling well elsewhere as well, yay! Right now the cards have some distributors in the U.K., U.S., Canada, and Japan. If you or anyone you know might be interested in selling or distributing these cards, please do contact let Blush Publishing know.



Did some more serging yesterday, plus did some THREADING of the serger. I was almost out of the sample serger thread and was paranoid about running out (and having re-thread from scratch), so went to Fabricland and bought four serger-sized thread spools.

I tried the trick of tying the old thread to the new thread and pulling it through, but I screwed up and two of the threads broke because I had forgotten to loosen the thread tension before re-threading, and also started from the leftmost of the four threads instead of the rightmost...it matters because of the way the threads interact inside the machine.

Yikes. My worst nightmare come true! Ok, maybe not the WORST, but the worst of my serger nightmares. But I took out the manual again, looked at the macro photos I'd taken yesterday, opened up the machine and started looking inside.



It took me an hour, but I managed to re-thread my serger, woohoo! The toughest part was figuring out what bit in the diagrams matched the real-life bits in my serger innards, and then trying to make the thread go where it was supposed to. Each of the four threads follows a different path inside the machine, and some paths are pretty awkward -- I had to use tweezers and a special serger threading needle.

BUT I'm much more familiar with the process now, and feel pretty confident that I could re-thread the entire machine again if I needed to. I might even purposely go through the process regularly, just to make sure I don't forget.



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