Serger vs Sewing - What's the difference?
serger | sewing |
(sewing) A type of sewing machine designed to produce an overlock stitch and to cut the fabric as it stitches.
* 2008 , Shannon Okey, The Pillow Book: Over 25 Simple-to-Sew Patterns for Every Room and Every Mood ,
* 2008 , Madlyn Easley, Quick and Easy Window Treatments: 15 Easy-Sew Projects that Build Skills, Too ,
* 2010 , Cait London, Instinctive Male ,
The action of the verb to sew .
Something that is being or has been sewn.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
As nouns the difference between serger and sewing
is that serger is a type of sewing machine designed to produce an overlock stitch and to cut the fabric as it stitches while sewing is the action of the verb to sew.As a verb sewing is
present participle of lang=en.serger
English
(Overlock)Noun
(en noun)page 31,
- If using a serger' instead of a sewing machine, remember to eliminate or otherwise take into account the seam allowances given to each pattern, or you may end up with a larger pillow than expected.' Sergers , which create a series of overlapping stitches on the actual edge of the fabric, cutting away the excess, do not require seam allowances.
page 20,
- If you have a serger , you can use it to finish fabric edges so they don't ravel, but the zigzag stitch on your regular machine works well, too.
page 158,
- With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger , studying the directions and clearly dismissing her.
Synonyms
* (type of sewing machine) overlock machinesewing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
- The sewing has come undone on this seam.
- Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.