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The book is divided into six chapters, with five chapters devoted to serger basics, including mastering the controls, threading, tension and stitch basics. Additional chapters cover supplies, stitch techniques, creative options and maintenance and troubleshooting.
Chapter six includes 13 projects, with step-by-step instructions, color photos and additional diagrams for completing each project.
With a serger, fabric edges are finished as the seam is sewn, and every serger has a cutting system that trims excess fabric and thread, leaving a finished seam as it sews. The average serger also stitches twice as fast as a home sewing machine.
Carol Zentgraf, the book's designer, specializes in sewing, fabrics and decorating. She has a degree in interior design and commercial art and has worked in the craft and sewing industry for more than 30 years.
Serger Sewing Basics features projects in skill levels from beginner through advanced, with patterns for creating a sampler pillow, a table runner, a fleece throw and a number of other accessory items. The book is available from the Clotilde catalog, accessible online at Clotilde.com.
DRG's publishing division encompasses additional leading brands that include Annie's Attic, American School of Needlework, Clotilde and Good Old Days.
DRG books, magazines and related products are available from the company website at DRGnetwork.com.
About DRG: DRG (DRGnetwork.com) is in its third generation of Muselman family ownership in Berne, Ind., near Fort Wayne. A leader in the craft and nostalgia markets, the company is well known for its iconic brands, which include House of White Birches, Annie's Attic, Clotilde, American School of Needlework and Good Old Days. The company publishes magazines and books, and also offers its own and others' kits, supplies and Web-deliverable products in print catalogs and on more than 40 DRG websites. Magazines and products are also available on newsstands and in retail chains and stores nationwide. One of DRG's divisions, Strategic Fulfillment Group (SFG), provides state-of-the-art fulfillment and database marketing services out of a 140,000-square-foot facility nestled in the rolling wooded landscape of East Texas, centered between Shreveport and Dallas. The DRG story began in 1925 with the founding of Economy Printing Concern in Berne. EP Graphics, as it is known today, is still owned by the Muselman family. It specializes in high-quality, four-color web printing for catalogs and magazines.