Couching Fibers Along, Part Three

Grüezi mitenand! Hello BERNINA Q . . . Quilters?!

Here is BERNINA Ambassador Carolina Asmussen, from Carolina Asmussen Designs.

Welcome to the Couching Fibers Along – Week 3!

If for some reason you lost the Couching Fibers Along previous information you can check the Week 1 and Week 2. In my previous post we started our stitching activities free-motion couching the blue flower.

This week, we will work with the coral flower. So, gather your materials and let’s make some noise with our BERNINA machines.

Couching Fibers Along, Part Three

Before we start stitching, remember to ALWAYS coordinate the color of the thread and the color of the fiber. This will help keeping the magic effect of the fiber just floating on the top of the fabric.

For this week, we will start free-motion couching fibers at the coral flower design.

Couching Fibers Along – Week 3

Materials for Part Three

• Quilt sandwich (white cotton fabric with the design template, batting and backing fabric)
• DMC Tapestry Wool color 7125 coordinated with Aurifil 50wt color 2225 (we will call this combination our color 4)
• DMC Tapestry Wool color 7214 coordinated with Aurifil 50wt color 2215 (we will call this combination our color 5)
• BERNINA Adjustable Ruler Foot #72 and couching inserts

Preparing the BERNINA Adjustable Ruler Foot

Because we are doing much more than ruler work this time, we need to attach the couching insert to the bottom of the BERNINA Adjustable Ruler Foot #72.

The couching inserts come in a package with 3 different sizes: 2.2mm, 1.8mm and 1.4mm.

For this entire project, we will use the insert with the larger gap at the center, the 2.2mm.

Now you just need to snap the couching insert to the bottom of the foot and attach to your machine.

Free-motion Couching Color 4

Wind a BERNINA bobbin with Aurifil 50wt color 2225 and get the DMC Tapestry Wool color 7125 close to your machine.

Watch the video below to start stitching the color 4.

Free-motion Couching Color 5

Wind a BERNINA bobbin with Aurifil 50wt color 2215 and get the DMC Tapestry Wool color 7214 close to your machine.

Watch the video below to start stitching the color 5.

And just like that! In less than an hour we have one more flower added to the template’s design. I hope that you are having fun and already falling in love with couching fibers.

See you next week!

Uf Widerluege!