"doing a rolled hem"

I read that as "rolled ham" and thought: somebody's getting a little carried away with the sewing. :-)

Never cared for the peat pellets only cause I have room to start plants outside. I find that the pellets (as long as they stay moist) are great for starting plants but ya gotta keep on them cause they dry out realy fast and can be difficult to re-moisten. Mother earth seems to be a bit more forgiving when it comes to soil moisture content. I will get potting soil and mix it with regular soil from the garden and start plants in a small pot that way if I have the need to do so.
To each their own. If ya try the peet pellets and they work for ya, stick with them.

I totally understand your desire to get comfortable with re-threading your serger. I actually signed up for my first set of guitar lessons (oh so many years ago) mainly because I broke a guitar string and had no idea how to change it! :) Knowledge gives you options among other things.

I like those peat-pellet 'pots' but haven't been able to find them over here in the last couple of years, except as part of a kit, with a tray and cover and seeds - none of which I need! I do have a newspaper-pot-maker - a stumpy little wooden cylinder, around which you roll and fold a strip of newspaper to make a biodegradable pot which can be filled with soil/compost to plant into, and then the whole thing goes out into the garden when the plant is big enough, so you don't disturb the roots - like the peat pellets. But I keep forgetting to use it...

I did some gardening at the weekend - dug over one of the beds which had been rough-dug a few weeks ago, and put in two rows of dwarf beans 'The Prince', and three rows of red 'Samurai' carrots.

See, I don't need the *kits*. I have trays and so on already - I just need the pellets, and you used to be able to buy them on their own by the bag of 20 or so, but I haven't seen those recently.

The pot-maker thing is this thing.

The boys and I have used the peat pellets with the tray and lid and got most of our seedlings to sprout. We had to be careful with the lid because up in my kitchen plant window it can get warm and the lid over the little seedlings was making it VERY moist and hot. Rather pressure-cooker-like. But maybe you won't have that problem. And then I had to try to take the little baby seedlings and keep them alive, and I don't seem to have much luck with that fragile in-between stage from tiny seedling to healthy young plant. If you figure out how to get them to that crucial stage of planting them outside or in bigger pots, let me know. So far we have a carrot and an avocado and um, some unidentifiable flower that have survived...

Debbie, the link to your Babylon 5 reviews is not working now.

The photo of you three young ladies attempting to be rude is an interesting contrast.