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Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation
Sewing with a Serger
Course: TEC129

First Term: 2019 Spring
 Lec + Lab   3.0 Credit(s)   5.0 Period(s)   5.0 Load  
Subject Type: Occupational
Load Formula: T - Lab Load


Description: Operation of a home serger. Use in constructing, finishing, and decorating garments and home decorations. Home serger required.



MCCCD Official Course Competencies
1. Operate, troubleshoot, and maintain a home serger. (I)
2. Identify and correct balanced and unbalanced tension. (II)
3. Change stitch width and length on a home serger. (II)
4. Set up a home serger for flatlocking. (II)
5. Flatlock two fabrics together. (II)
6. Use flatlocking for embellishing a fabric. (II)
7. Make a plain serged straight seam, a reinforced seam, a curved seam, and a seam with corners. (II)
8. Apply seam finish to straight edges, curved edges, and corners. (II)
9. Gather on a home serger, with and without differential feed. (II)
10. Apply a blind serger hem to a knot and to a woven fabric. (II)
11. Set up a home serger for a rolled hem. (II)
12. Apply a rolled serger hem to a knit and to a woven fabric, using either woolly nylon or two-ply serger thread. (II)
13. Apply lace insertion, make pintucks, and make and apply ruffles. (II)
14. Construct a sweatshirt or T-shirt. (III)
15. Construct a piece of lingerie or sleepwear. (III)
MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements.
 
MCCCD Official Course Outline
I. Introduction
   A. Kinds of home sergers
   B. Operating a home serger
      1. Thread selection
      2. Threading the serger
      3. Knives
      4. Needles
      5. Tension balance
      6. Differential feed
      7. Loopers
   C. Troubleshooting
   D. Maintenance
   E. Kinds of stitches
      1. How stitches are formed
      2. Stitch characteristics
      3. Stitch uses
II. Using the home serger
   A. Tension control
      1. Balanced three-thread stitch
      2. Balanced four-thread stitch
      3. Balanced five-thread stitch
      4. Stitch width
      5. Stitch length
   B. Flatlocking
      1. Two-thread stitch
      2. Three-thread stitch
      3. Seams
      4. Embellishing with different threads
   C. Seams and seam finishes
      1. Two-thread
      2. Three-thread
      3. Four-thread
      4. Five-thread
      5. Straight seams
      6. Curved seams
      7. Inside corners
      8. Outside corners
      9. Stitching in a circle
      10. Gathering
      11. Securing ends of seams
   D. Hems
      1. Blind serger hem
      2. Rolled hem
      3. Flatlocked hem
   E. Decorative serging
      1. Decorative threads
      2. Decorative trims and bindings
   F. Heirloom sewing on the home serger
      1. Stitches used in serger heirloom sewing
      2. Lace trims and ribbon applications
      3. Pintucking
      4. Ruffles
   G. Elastic application
III. Projects
   A. Sweatshirt or T-shirt
   B. Lingerie or sleepwear
   C. Additional projects (optional)
 
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: December 11, 2018

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