Baby Lock Triumph Serger Machine

Angela Huffman, host of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting PBS show and founder/owner of Quilted Joy.

This is the top of the line Baby Lock serger. It has incredible capabilities and is a joy to use. Call us at (502) 718-7148 or send us an email. The Quilt Fairies and I sew on these every week, and we will tell you plainly where the Triumph earns its price over the Acclaim or the Splendor and how it differs.

RevolutionAir™: the loopers and the needles

Drop the thread into a port and press push to thread loopers. Air carries it through the tubular loopers and out where it belongs. Then engage the needle threader and press again, and the needles are threaded too. Most air threading sergers stop at the loopers and hand the needles back to you with a pair of tweezers. Threading both is what makes an eight thread machine practical rather than theoretical, because a color change stops being a reason to leave a project half finished.

87 stitch combinations, and one you can only get here

Overlock, flatlock, chain stitch and cover stitch across 8, 7 and 6 thread setups. Stitch width dials from 1.5mm to 7.5mm and opens to 16mm on the expressive stitches. Stitch length dials from 0.75mm to 4mm and drops into an automatic rolled hem on the same dial. The Wave Stitch is Baby Lock's own, driven by its own dedicated thread delivery unit, and it turns a plain edge into the finish on the garment rather than the thing you hide inside it.

Cover stitch that chains off by itself

Single, double and triple cover stitch, plus chain stitch, and the Triumph chains off a cover stitch automatically at the end of a run. You are not pulling the work out from under the foot and knotting thread tails by hand on every hem. It handles the heavier fabrics too, which is where a cover stitch usually goes wrong. Vertical needle penetration keeps the needles from deflecting and pushing your fabric off the line you meant to sew.

Five inches of room and six lights on the needle

Five inches to the right of the needle is the largest throat space Baby Lock puts on a serger, and it is the difference between a quilt-sized panel moving through the machine and a quilt-sized panel bunching against it. Six LEDs light the needle from more than one direction, so the presser foot is not casting a shadow across the stitch line you are trying to follow. On decorative work running yards at a time, both of those stop being luxuries.

Your speed, and both hands on the fabric

Variable speed control sets the machine's ceiling rather than asking your foot to hold a pace, so you can run 1,500 stitches a minute down a long seam and then slow the whole machine right down for a curve or a decorative pass. The attachable knee lift raises the presser foot without either hand leaving your work. Full feature differential feed runs 2 to 1 for gathering and 3 to 4 for stretching, so knits come out flat instead of wavy, and the advanced knife system takes a bigger cutting bite through thick fabric with a clear view of the trim line.