Bernina Club Day September 2011

We had a great time at this months Bernina Club day which takes place at West End Sewing Centre. Cheltenham. As usual it was very well attended. One of the Group Members - Helen - gave a lovely talk about creating pictures with a difference using lots of fabric shapes and colours schemes and then sewing them together to create lovely 'happy villages' one of her designs entitled 'Bethlehem' as very intriguing and so lovely that she photographed it then used the picture to make last years Christmas cards - what a lovely idea.!!! Helen showed us some of the work she has created. The pictures are very different. Here are some pictures taken at the club today.  Well done Helen. While we all enjoyed coffee and biscuits, a few members had brought in their work to show and  share experiences with the group. Including  Bags, Jackets, and Mini Jester Bags. A friendly welcome to our three new members too. I demonstrated how to couch all sorts of threads, thin ribbons, wools and strips of organza using the special Bernina Couching foot ( no. 43). It is so easy as you can guide your cords through the channel in the side of the foot so you  don't need to worry about placing the cords in the correct place you can just stitch with ease and concentrate on creating the design.

the next meeting is in a months time on the  19th October 10am till 12. All Bernina Owners are welcome to come along and enjoy the morning and meet new friends.

Sewing With Friends

I met up with my friend Anne Today and We had a  fun day today sharing our love of all things sewing related.

We worked out how to make a lovely 'jester bag' that would make a really nice gift for Christmas

Anne had  made a lovely bag from pattern we were shown at last months Bernina Club Day. Very easy pattern and the bag looked great. 

  

Together we worked through the problem of using invisible thread and  3 thread overlocking!!! We did get it to work eventually!! samples looked great,  but.... the thread is that 'springy' it kept snapping. The weight of thread to light needs a stronger thread. all tensions to virtually nil, spools need thread nets on and even then still not coming of cones evenly. Works better on the Baby lock machine than Husqvana - Conclusion - Don't use invisible thread on overlockers!!! lol

It was a lovely sunny afternoon so we had a nice lunch her garden. Then back to some more 'work'.

We worked on some Digitizing.. I have Bernina Software V5 and Anne has V6.  and we found out how to do 'Cross Stitch' using the software. - Fabulous!!

Really quite easy when you know how.

Got some homework to do now.

 

mini accessorries

I have made a 'skirt that fits' sample for the class I am delivering at Decorative Cloth, Leamington Spa, in a few weeks time.

I have been busy this week making pretty things for on of the classes called ' mini accessories' that  I am teaching at Cheltenham soon. 

While I was at West End Sewing Centre Yesterday I got to play on the new Bernina 830- its such an exciting machine.!!! I was able to help a customer with her Bernina Designer Plus Digitizing software Version 6. Hopefully the problem is now solved. 

I am busy making lots more samples and updating equipment lists for the new classes. all the classes are listed on my website classes page, just click the link to see what's on  new sewing classes