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Overlocking beginners (like me), start here.

Back in late summer 2015, I purchased a Toyota 3304 overlocker, second hand for my partner Diane to use in her crafting endeavours. It was eighteen months old, in immaculate condition and the most basic model that Toyota made at the time. That's it in the photo, with a small addition that I will come to in a future post. Now if I had known more about overlockers (or sergers as they are called in the USA), I may have thought  twice about buying the Toyota 3304 which is a basic 3 or 4 thread overlocker with very little in the way of bells and whistles. It lacks a differential feed function, it requires an optional needle plate and presser foot to create rolled hems, there is no two thread overlock option on this machine. If I had followed the internet pundits who seem to praise a few "well known" brands and models, you know the ones, I would not have considered a Toyota machine, but that would have been a big mistake, as I have found out. I am like a lot of men. Give