I get to be the first to congratulate you! Whoo hoo! You will be stitching out stuff quicker than usual! Wow!

Congratulations! I wish we had a serger class, so far I just use mine for seams. Yours sounds like a dream come true!

I got a Baby Lock Imagine - love it!!! Still have so much to learn about it!! Oh, you will be able to make lots of ruffles for your nieces!!!! You certainly deserve it - enjoy!!! Hugs, Laura*

I am so happy for you! I am sure you will be burning the midnight oil playing with your new machine. Happy stitching!

Dragonflyer, I wondered why my computer was jumping around all over the desk and it's you inside here!!!! You could have at least warned me and I would have tied the thing down. I'm so sorry you are this upset over the death of your serger, it had a long successful life you really mustn't be too sad...Happy dancing is for the NEW Baby Lock!?! Okay I'll buy that, 8 threads and threads itself by magic and fairy dust...waaaaaay to cool. Congrats on the new toy. :P LOL

Congratulations Kim, what a wonderful Overlocker and self threading to boot! Hope you are somewhere close by to have lessons. Love Crhis

Congratulations and enjoy! The self threading is an absolute treaure. It takes me at least an hour to get the thread through my serger's loops, and one of my heart's desires is to get a self threading serger...

Oh dear - mine is older than that - I am too frightened to have it serviced!!! Enjoy your wonderful new machine.

8 threads? oh my! I have a manual thread 4-thread overlocker a--nd I hate rethreading if the underlooper thread breaks .. how many do you have under there? Thankfully they auto-thread for you :)

You'll have to tell us all the magical things it does, so sorry to hear about your old faithful but they all have to go sometime.. Marian

Conrats!!! I have one also .Simply love it!! Love the threading too. I had the same thing...... My very old Bernina died... I have all baby locks machines now and love love love them all. You are going to be so happy.Suzanne

So happy for you, when you get tired of playing there will be a lot of work you will dooooooooooo!

You are going to have so much fun! I have a Babylock Evolve with 8 threads. You are going to amazed with all you can do with your new baby. It will be worth the 150 mile round trip to get some lessons. PM me and tell me where you are located. If you are near me, you have a free B and B to stay at while getting lessons.

I'm jealous! I gave mine to son and dil to sell in a yard sale. It was such a burden to thread and then get to run correctly that I finally put it in the closet so I wouldn't have to look at it, but now it's gone! I will be hoping for and saving for a new one that isn't so persnickity.

You can find many sewing and serger video tutorials at videos.wpt.org they are excellent for learning old and new techniques with Nancy Zieman.

congrats to you, and ***flowers*** too

They are a lovely overlocker.Mine is about 3yrs old & it came with a DVD demonstrating the threading for all the different stitches it does as well as what the different feet do.I bought the clear foot so I could see the fabric better as it went went through the machine.
I got my first babylock overlocker in the 70's & gave it to my stepdaughter when the stretch fabrics came because it didn't sew them very well.

Oh My i am happy for you and i will join you on the dance floor hugs

Congratulations!

You won the world championship of turning bad into good!
Congratulations and so glad for you - probably we will see some projects soon :-) Maria

LOL, Kim and congrats on the new machine!!!! I can hear you smiling!

I found this yesterday in a 1973 McCalls magazine I came across while looking for something else.I had one of these ,but it seems ancient in design to what the new ones are now.

I have to admit that I have not waited for my 3 thread serger to fall apart. I recently bought a 4 thread one and am giving the 3 threader to my daughter who is delighted at the prospect of her 'new' machine.

I have an Evolve 8 thread, so much to learn but it sews like a dream. I need to utilize it more. Have fun!

As Lawrence Welk use to say "wunnerful, wunnerful" Happy for you, My Babylock serger is around 20 yrs. old now. It's so "moody" I seldom get it out anymore . I look longinly at the new ones but they are waaaay out of my reach. Congratulations to you/Lillian

Good for you! I now have the enlighten (4 thread) with the jet air and it also has the wave stitch. I would never have spent the money on this at the time (xmas last year), but we were at the dealers and my hubby was watching the demo and insisted I had to have it. At first I said no as my serger was not all that used even though I've had it for about 10 yrs. - needless to say, I ended up with it and LOVE it. I have used it more in the year and a half I've had it than I used the other one in 10 yrs.! I love the air threading and I have used the wave stitch many times and it givess a beautiful finish to a hem!

If they had done a demo with the 8 thread evolution - he might have decided on that one - but I'm great with this and you are going to have fun with yours!

Congratulations!!
Funny celebrating the breaking down of a machine :-)