Category: Tips & Tricks

Top 10 2012 New Year’s Re-SEW-lutions

In December we asked you to share your 2012 New Year’s Re-SEW-lutions on our BERNINA USA facebook fanpage, and judging by the wonderful response there are a whole lot of you planning on sewing with a purpose this year. So, without further ado, here are your TOP 10 Re-SEW-lutions!

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Sewing Sheer Fabrics – French Seams

It’s easy to sew beautiful French seams in a sheer blouse using BERNINA’s exclusive Temporary Altered Memory feature. Your BERNINA machine remembers stitch settings as long as you keep the machine on—a great benefit when you have to toggle between stitches as you must when making French seams. … More

BERNINA Dual Feed – Matching Plaids

My passion is garment sewing and because I am a perfectionist, I am very critical of my work. Matching plaids and repeated patterns is one of the areas where I am the most critical. The BERNINA Walking Foot #50 is the foot I would use for this in the past, but NOW I use the built-in Dual Feed system of the BERNINA 8-Series machines. … More

Fiberella on the BERNINA Rotary Punch Tool

Greetings! I’m Paula Scaffidi from www.fiberella.com. Over the last couple of years I worked with BERNINA International to develop the new BERNINA Rotary Punch Tool #45. BERNINA really did engineer the tool-of-my-Fiberella-dreams and I’m so happy it’s time to share it with you!

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A Heart Pocket for Nola

Software adds so much to your embroidery capabilities and possibilities! One of the best opportunities exists in scanning the item to be embroidered and perfectly placing your designs on the scanned image. Nola’s printed coveralls were a perfect opportunity to embellish the pocket with her name.

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Needle Minder Project in TTNO#9

This compact needle case has a place for every kind of sewing machine needle, and even notes whether they are “barely used” or “well worn.” Find instructions in Through the Needle ONLINE Issue #10, with two corrections listed in this blog post.

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