In that case you probably need a (polyester) wicking fabric next to your skin with a more absorbent layer on top.

I’m tried the wicking fabric, what usually happens is it wicks sweat away but I end up feeling warmer and I sweat more eventually the fabric is just being out performed haha and air currents don’t tend to get through the fabric either which is the harder challenge.

One of the reasons I love linen, lite weave, highly absorbent, breezy and comfortable.

Thought I’d update you guys on my thought process.

I played with the Juki MO-2000, it performs as nicely as the babylock and didn’t take much to get the tension right anyway. It was fast and solid and relatively quiet. It was simple to change stitch types and retread needles.

Also got to play with some janome cover stitch and it wasn’t the one for me, it seemed fiddly and not “me friendly” but the lady showing it used it like it was the easiest machine in the world. But I did play with the Juki cover stitch and between the two while no stitch was exactly straight and true the Juki seemed to produce better stitches more even and more pleasant to look at. Also played with a babylock cover stitch and it was smack on with the Juki but more expensive and while the babylock looked nicer I’ll get the Juki cover stitch.

Stupidly I also looked at a sewing machine from Juki.. I just suddenly felt like a Juki fanboy

Anyway I can’t buy the overlocker yet need to not send my self broke on a holiday that’s coming up so will likely get the overlocker next month

Also collecting parts for a desk.. but that’s another story

I am rather surprised in stitch quality though and how much it can vary from machine and brands considering what it does you’d think that would be at the top of a manufacturers list

Hello ladies and maybe gentlemen?

I need some guidance, I learnt how as a kid with my mum who used to make clothes for a living anything from wedding dresses, to suits and everything down to underwear. I used to help and am really the only one in our family besides my grandmother who ever had interest in sewing.

I’ve been going on and off sewing for years I’ve a decent husky mechanical sewing machine that does the job from light weight to medium weight fabrics but is getting on now and I do want to replace at some point.

But the thing I’ve constantly hated is sewing knits on a standard sewing machine I want an over locker/top stitch machine, mum had one when I was a kid and I used to help get it ready by threading and adjusting tension on a terrifying industrial overlocker and I am finally in a position to actually plunk down the money for a machine (or machines) that can do what I want

I’ve narrowed it down to two a babylock evolve or evolution and a Juki MO-2000QVP

The babylock evolve/evolution is a nice machine, I’ve used it at the store the lovely lady walked me through a lot of the features and it’s a very nice machine super simple easy to thread easy to use the no tensioning feature is stunning and seems to work exceptionally well for the most part. Changing it over to a coverstitch is easy enough relatively simple and quick to thread. But it’s very very expensive and has features I just don’t believe I’ll ever use like the way stitch

The Juki, haven’t had a chance to use it just yet (I will soon though) the reputation are impeccable and this model has air threading for the loopers which is cool it does a lot of the same things as the babylock except the wave stitch and it’s almost half the price, it doesn’t do a cover stitch BUT I have used another Juki that is a straight up cover stitch and I would be happy getting that too and STILL be saving money over the babylock

The type of sewing I’ll be doing is mostly tshirts, knits, underwear, sports fabrics, technical fabrics, maybe some home decor things like a jumbo outdoor bean bag, a few pillows. It’ll also be used with other woven fabrics and the top stitch will be used in a lot of wovens. I haven’t any real intention of sewing womens clothes since well I haven’t got one of those haha and this is primarily for me because I’m sick of clothes that look like crap and fall apart

So to anyone who has both or used both or used either or has opinions or advice I’d be very willing to hear. I’m not super keen on getting a cheap machine since it wont be an “upgrade later” more a “use it for 10 to 15 years” situation so any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated