( Will Write For Chocolate comic updated. Naming my dressmaker form. Why I love my serger. Holiday weekend. More Babylon Five Virgin updates. Six days to Balticon! )

( Gardeningstuff, congrats to Seanan McGuire on her MULTI-BOOK deal (!), Balticon anticipation, my new dressmaker's form, my first attempts at sewing a dress and sewing with knit fabrics, Babylon Five updates. )

( Virtual walk update, Escape Pod, audio podcasts. )

What about the rest of you? What audio podcasts do you regularly listen to these days?

( My encounter with vanity sizing. Babylon Five updates. )

( Mom's Day, Naomi's Tree, gardening, walking, quillows, Babylon Five updates. )

( Doing lots of reading. Buying a dressmaker's form at Fabricland's mega-sale. Megalomaniac wine! )

( Posterchild and Dear Toronto, sleeve success (sort of!), fabric sales at Babylon Five. )

Check out today's Dear Toronto video! Recognize the background music? Thanks so much to Ryan Couldrey for supporting Urban Tapestry's music. :-)

( Using my new serger in an actual sewing project (!), easing question, plant question, working with a new artist! Update: Urban Tapestry on Dear Toronto! )

( Walking to Beamsville, fitness and walking (and repeated thanks to Brooke!), survival stories and Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer )

In case any of you are trying to reach Inkygirl, Will Write For Chocolate, or B5 Virgin, the sites are down because my host is having major outages right now. Thanks to sffilk for alerting me to this problem. Hopefully the issue will be fixed soon!

( Some pics from Ryan's photo shoot. My mini-nursery and gardening. Re-threading my serger from scratch again because I'm CRAZY. B5 Updates. )

( Cartoonist photo shoot in Bloor West Village. Baby Blue Cthulu Ninja Doll. )

( My Blush cards arrived. Re-threading sergers. )

( Trying out my serger for the first time. Signed up for a beginner sewing course! Cartoon caption challenges. B5 updates. )

( A new Will Write For Chocolate comic strip, the face on Sven's t-shirt, Urban Tapestry practice for Balticon, Portal Song, 1-900-NERD-GIRL. )

And a question for those familiar with Portal: any suggestions for what I should draw on signs I hold up when we perform this song at Balticon?

( Macintosh Portable, eating at Cluck, Grunt and Low, A Curse As Dark As Gold by Elisabeth Bunce, plus a virtual con walk update. )

( Picked up my new serger! New sewing projects. Dr. Who and other shows. Media survey. )

Survey: How many hours of entertainment media (including tv shows, movies) do you watch per week, on average?

( More details about how I won a serger, serger info, the 'Blink' episode and Dr. Who, aging follow-up, and a Dave Weingart comment inspires my first sewing cartoon. )

So on my first visit to Fabricland for my first sewing project, I entered a prize draw. The box and the slips were sitting beside the cash, so I filled out a form while I was waiting for the clerk to ring through my credit card. It was for a serger - I had no idea what a serger was, but I figured it was probably something good. :-)

Anyway, Fabricland just called and I won the prize draw! I tried Googling "serger" but I'm still confused. Could someone out there explain in layman's language: what would I use a serger for? I take it that it doesn't replace a sewing machine, but is used with a sewing machine?

(Update: I think it's a Janome Model 9102D Serger)