Sewing with Nancy featured serger crochet
techniques this morning. I wince when I hear the name serger crochet
. Calling this fast way to create lacy trim crochet, devalues traditional crochet lovingly hooked by hand in endless combinations of stitches. Why couldn't they call it serger lace or serger trim, a more accurate description that doesn't detract from true handcrafted crochet.
Nancy Zieman and guest Joan Friedrich show how to create serger crochet trim in program #2106 of Sewing With Nancy. You use heavier thread in the serger loopers and the widest and longest stitch settings. After the first round of sergering, the project is positioned so that the new stitches are formed half on and half off the previous stitches. Ruffles can be created by shortening the stitch length on the last round(s) of stitching. BabyLock has a free serger crochet instruction sheet in pdf format.
Babylock pdf format is no longer available for the free serger crochet instruction sheet. Bummer
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry the Babylock instruction sheet is gone. It's been almost 10 years since I wrote this post, so it's not surprising that Babylock has updated their website and removed some older content.
DeleteIf you search for "serger crochet instructions" with Google or your favorite search engine, you should find other sites offering serger crochet information.