Sewing with Seraflex fantastic elastic sewing thread
Of course I had to try the new sewing thread seraflex!
Read so many goods things about it and am curious as to the stretchability of 65% with a straight seam.
Seraflex is washable at 60 degreed and can be ironed on the cotton setting. It's even suitable for the dryer.
Use this sewing thread for all
stretch and knitted fabrics like jersey and lycra.
I would say:
Thé sewing thread for your summer wardrobe!
Winding the bobbin and threading the sewingmachine
On the colourchart it states: wind
your spool loosely and loossen the tension on the machine. That's
because if you wind it tight you will have used up the stretch of the
thread.
And stretched out thread doesn't
give anymore when you've sewn the seam...
So I sat behind the machine and
threaded it.
To ensure a loosely winded
spool I've led the thread by another route instead of the usual
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1: Threading the normal route
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2: Threading the alternate route with seraflex
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Of course all machines are
different, check your machine and try an alternate route...
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3: Threading the spoolthread on the new route
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4: Threading the spoolthread further
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It's not really clear on the
pictures but on picture 3 you see the thread coming out on the left
and on picture 4 there are two threads on the right.
After winding the spool I was
putting it in the machine when I thought of my cordonnet spoolholder:
My machine has an extra spool holder
for thicker thread which has a loosser tension. You can also adjust
the tension in the normal spool holder but please don't touch it if
you're not experienced with this. It's sometimes hard to get it back
to normal afterwards.
Does your machine lack this other
spool holder? Then just use the normal one.
Than it's time to thread the needle
thread. That's done the normal way. On the info of seraflex it
states: the tension should be as low as possible so instead of it
being set to 5 I've put it on 3. With my machine that works well,
have tested the seam and it looks fine, see the picture below:
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5: Looks a bit woobly but that's because I've been stretching it to
capacity a numer of times, it's a test, right?
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The results:
I've sewn a seam and measured 10cm.
Then I've stretched it until it could go no further and at that point
the tape measure said 16,5cm. I calculated that it's indeed 65%.
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6: You can see the pins at 0 and 10
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7: the point of the pin is just visible at 16,5cm...
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When I tested the fabric itself, it
came to 17cm. A bit more but it's possible I've just held it
diffently...
Is your fabric less stetchy than
65%, say 50%, your sewn seam will not stretch more than that.
And with a to high tension 65% will
not be reached. So do a test with a left over piece of fabric before
sewing your garment.
Sabaflex:
Sabaflex is the same thread as
seraflex but than industrial quantity, only available to
people with a business.
The spools are larger, 1500m and
it's available in wider colour range.
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8: Sabaflex is also available in other strenghts
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Are
you a business customer and like to order sabaflex please contact
us...
This
concludes the testing of seraflex, we liked it, would you like to
order seraflex for your own test?
Go
to our shop and order your bobbin, box, display or cabinet:
