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What's Inside? QUILTING EMBROIDERY What’s Inside? • BERNINA® News • Creative Pursuits • A Solid Foundation • Block By Block • Serging Ahead • Bobbinwork Basics • BERNINA® Quilter • Serger Spa Tote • Top Knot Headband • Sunflowers, Sunflowers, Sunflowers • Quilted Bolster Cover Page 4 • Landscape of Creativity • Sewing Up A Recipe • From Bath Towel to Bath Wrap • Dare To Go Off The Edge • Lovely Lingerie • KOOS In San Diego • Textured Surfaces • The $10,000 House SPECIAL CLASSROOM EDITION WHO WE ARE... BERNINA® QUILTER SEWING UP A RECIPE Meet the talented staff and stitchers who Designing and planning your next quilting BERNINA® machines have so many contribute tips, project ideas, and stories to project is simple and easy with the wonderful stitches to create and decorate Through the Needle. BERNINA® Quilter software program. with! Find answers to your questions about Page 2 Select your patchwork pattern, plan your using all of those fabulous decorative fabrics, and add embroidery to see your stitches in ways you never imagined. finished quilt before you even take a stitch! Page 39 BERNINA® NEWS Page 24 Learning to sew never ends! There’s always another technique or sewing trick FROM BATH TOWEL TO BATH WRAP you can add to your stitching repertoire. This quick and easy bath wrap is made ® from a towel and embellished with a rich BERNINA encourages you to take classes SERGER SPA TOTE monogram stitched with an embroidery and learn as much as you can. Carry your valuables, slippers or your spa machine. Page 3 indulgences in this delightful and roomy Page 42 tote bag -- made almost entirely on the CREATIVE PURSUITS serger. Page 26 DARE TO GO OFF THE EDGE See where a high style designer and a Create “off-the-edge” trims using the talented art quilter find inspiration and decorative stitches of your sewing outlets for creative expression. machine. Simple stitching creates stunning Page 4 TOP KNOT HEADBAND edgings. You’ll want to serge dozens of these for Page 45 A SOLID FOUNDATION you and your friends when you see how Eliminate common sewing “problems” and easy and fast your serger zips up this LOVELY LINGERIE end up with professionally finished project. Embellished with embroidery and made projects by paying attention to the Page 28 from delicate fabrics, lingerie can be elements that hold the project together: feminine, fashionable, and even functional. needles, thread and stabilizers. Page 49 Page 7 SUNFLOWERS, SUNFLOWERS, SUNFLOWERS This simple digitizing exercise is the KOOS IN SAN DIEGO BLOCK BY BLOCK beginning of a unique quilt full of Inspired by the collage techniques of Get a taste of Chenille Flannel Quilting and sunflowers. fashion designer Koos van den Akker, learn five machine quilting techniques as Page 29 Susan Fears creates a gorgeous jacket you make this rag-style doll quilt. using a variety of textiles and techniques Page 10 and the “San Diego Jacket” pattern from The Sewing Workshop. QUILTED BOLSTER COVER Page 51 SERGING AHEAD Dress up a neckroll pillow by making Familiarize yourself with a few useful tips this unique decorative cover, pieced and TEXTURED SURFACES and you’ll find serging to be one of the embellished with stitching. Create texture and interest on the surfaces Page 32 most valuable techniques you’ll ever of fabric using designer threads, decorative know! stitches, and simple sewing techniques. Page 16 Page 54 LANDSCAPE OF CREATIVITY BOBBINWORK BASICS Stitch your favorite outdoor scene by THE $10,000 HOUSE Sew “upside-down” using this unique learning piecing and embellishment What would you do if you had $10,000 to embellishment technique and get a rich, techniques to create mountains, rivers, decorate your home? Check out this article defined look to your decorative stitching. foliage, etc. for a few simple, yet attractive ideas. Page 19 Page 35 Page 57 1 Through the Needle GAYLE HILLERT SUSAN BECK BERNINA® News Creative Pursuits Managing Editor WHO An avid sewer since she was a young girl, Gayle has With a background in Art and Home Economics, Susan is managed to combine her vocation and her avocation. As interested in all types of sewing and crafts and has written Vice President of Education for BERNINA® of America, several sewing books. She loves to be creative on paper Inc. she is responsible for training, education and testing as well as in fabric and is the Director of Education for We Are... ® ® functions relating to all BERNINA products. BERNINA of America, Inc. JO LEICHTE JENNIFER GIGAS MARLIS BENNETT Editor A Solid Foundation; Block By Block; Serging Ahead Landscape of Creativity; Bobbinwork Basics; Dare To Go Off the Edge; Quilted Bolster Currently stitching a collection of purses and totebags, Jo Jennifer, an Education Consultant for BERNINA® of Marlis creates unique interpretations of classic and is constantly on the lookout for quick, simple projects to America, combines serging, sewing, and embroidery heirloom sewn garments, incorporating decorative share with beginning seamsters. As Editor for BERNINA® in many of her updated interpretations of favorite stitching techniques and embroidery in imaginative of America, Jo is instrumental in the production of patterns, many of which incorporate decorative serger projects. As an Education Consultant for BERNINA® of Through the Needle. techniques in unexpected places. America, Marlis puts her own stamp of creativity on machine sewn parts. BARB ALENCI JILL DANKLEFSEN FAITH REYNOLDS From Bath Towel Sewing Up A Recipe; BERNINA® Quilter; to Bath Wrap Textured Surfaces Sunflowers, Sunflowers, Sunflowers Barbara has been involved with sewing since she was 11 years old and started mak- As an Education Consultant for BERNINA® of America, Faith, a former BERNINA® dealer, has also developed and ing her own clothes. She opened a quilt shop in Florida Jill is the resident master of stitch manipulation. She marketed her own line of clothing patterns. As an 12 years ago, and a year later became a BERNINA® deal- loves playing with them, changing them, and using Educator for BERNINA® of America, Faith travels around er. Since closing her shop, she has been working for them to create textured fabrics for garment and craft the country instructing dealers and their employees on BERNINA®. Her favorite part of the job is teaching, and projects. BERNINA® products, especially the artista embroidery seeing the enthusiasm on the faces of her students. software. NANCY BEDNAR CINDY MICHAELS SUSAN FEARS Serger Spa Tote; Top The $10,000 House; Koos In San Diego Knot Headband Lovely Lingerie (reprinted from TTN #6) One of BERNINA®’s freelance sewing and serging For 12 years, Cindy has worked for a large multi-line Susan enjoys all types of sewing, especially garment experts, Nancy also creates exquisite stitched dealer in California as a teacher and sales person, both making. She got hooked on quilting while making a garments, quilts, and crafts. She is also co-author of in-store and outside sales at fairs, home shows, quilt and quilted jacket, and now enjoys quilts throughout her The Encyclopedia of Sewing Machine Techniques, as craft shows and festivals. BERNINA® immediately became home. She finds inspiration everywhere, especially well as author of several other books and contributor her favorite brand of sewing machine, making it easy to through her travels as an Educator for BERNINA® of to many sewing publications. teach the machine and serger new owner’s classes. America. 2 SPECIAL CLASSROOM EDITION BY GAYLE HILLERT ow did you learn to sew? Did you have a family member At BERNINA®, we feel the more you know about your machine, Hteach you? Did you teach yourself? Did you go to a class? the more you will love it. The best way to learn your machine is Did you learn in school? by using it. This special issue of Through the Needle contains the contents of the classes we teach at consumer shows and events. There are all types of ways to learn to sew but they all involve It also gives you tips and hints to make your sewing more instruction of some kind. Attending classes and socializing with successful. others is probably the most enjoyable way to learn to sew or to learn a special technique of sewing – like quilting or heirloom We hope we will be able to meet you in person at one of the sewing. events in which we participate, but if not, we still want you to have the advantage of learning more about your BERNINA® Whether you were a good student in elementary, junior high or machines. You should be able to find something that appeals high school, adult learning seems to be an entirely different to you in this issue, whether it is about sewing, serging, matter. Maybe it is because we can now pursue the things embroidering or software. we really want. Classes are usually smaller and we receive individualized instruction. The quest to keep learning helps us So sit down, take the time to go over each lesson, chose one you stay young and involved. like and dive right in—the learning is just right. Come to Class BERNINA® Educators are teaching at the following events in 2004. Come see us and join in the learning! Mid-Atlantic Creativity Retreat by Embroidery Bonanza 13 - Quilt Festival BERNINA® Intermediate to Advanced Williamsburg, VA Lisle, IL Oklahoma City, OK February 25 - 29, 2004 May 13 - 16, 2004 September 23 - 25, 2004 http://www.quiltfest.com http://www.berninausa.com http://www.embroideryonline.com Sewing and Stitchery Martha Pullen School of Art Fashion Pacific International Expo and Kids School Quilt Festival Puyallup, WA Huntsville, AL Santa Clara, CA February 26 - 29, 2004 July 18 - 25, 2004 October 14 - 17, 2004 http://www.sewexpo.com http://www.marthapullen.com http://www.quiltfest.com Embroidery Bonanza 12 - Pennsylvania National Quilt Embroidery Bonanza 14 - Basic to Intermediate Extravaganza Basic to Intermediate Oklahoma City, OK Ft.
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