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.