Hi from Worcestershire

[Ouryve]

My overlocker would plot my demise if I put her in the naughty corner.
Take her out, apologise profusely and talk her, gently, through everything you ask of her.

[Ouryve]

Mine has tweezers.


And it doesn't thread right to left. It's 3, 4, 2, 1. It's all colour coded to make it easier, with a guide behind the door, though.

[Sewnow]

Hello! I'm also from Worcestershire originally, and had overlockerphobia at first. I need tweezers and really good lighting to thread it; I have a head torch for dark winter days. I remember reading a post by someone who could rethread one in under three minutes and can now join that club - it is doable and very worthwhile.
Although, cards on the table, I have a coverstitch machine which has become purely ornamental so I know how you feel!

[HenriettaMaria]

Hello and welcome from me too.

I recommend Chris James' book The Complete Serger Handbook.  I found my manual not terribly useful because I didn't know what I was striving for when I first acquired my overlocker, but this made it all obvious.

And yes, a pair of bent-nose tweezers is vital.  I've also found them useful with the sewing machine for getting pins out from under the presser foot, say, and use them all the time since I had to go to A&E to get the sewing machine needle removed from my finger!

[Alikat]

Hello Di and welcome.  I am also trying to work through my mum's 'stash' (she is unfortunately now in a care home).  The trouble is I can't bear to get rid of anything she has been working on, but I am not a patchworker so am trying to come up with ideas to incorporate her patchwork pieces into something I can work on!!

[Bjay]

Hi
I don't have an over locker   I do play on the Darkside and I live in Malvern.
Welcome

[Ellabella]

Upper looper, lower looper, right needle, left needle.  That’s all you need.

[William]

Hello and Welcome!

How do You pronounce your town?