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JACKET EMBROIDERY What’s Inside? • BERNINA® News • Chocolate Lace • Vintage Workshop Sachet & Pillow • Turnabout Jacket • European Traveler • Floral Bouquet Quilt • Quilt Leadership Award • Get Stuck on Stabilizers • Timing Is Everything • Stitch Counter • Make It Personal Page 12 • Buttonhole Compensation Attachment Bonus Pullout Pattern Inside! n. tio Discover a world of imagina artista 200E. It’s time to buy the best. Discover the artista 200E, and you’ll find innovative, embroidery at any size—another Bernina exclusive. “world’s first” features you won’t see anywhere In addition, only artista offers a CD-ROM else. For instance, it’s the first and only drive for easy access to hundreds of sewing and embroidery system in the world embroidery designs, and a centrally located that’s Microsoft® Windows® Powered, color touch screen for easier viewing. No making it the most intuitive and easiest to wonder the artista 200E won a Consumers navigate. And the artista 200E doesn’t limit Digest Best Buy Award. Try “the best” today at your embroidery. You’re able to create perfect your Bernina Dealer, and watch your creativity grow. Visit www.berninausa.com/a200cd/request.html or your Bernina Dealer to receive a free artista 200E CD-ROM. The Best Buy Seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications, LLC, used under license. ©2004 Bernina of America ISSUE 11 Chocolate Lace, Page 4 Turnabout Jacket, Page 8 Floral Bouquet Quilt, Page 12 Who We Are… Turnabout Jacket Timing is Everything Meet the talented staff and stitchers who The perfect canvas for showcasing a col- The face of this charming timepiece is dig- contribute tips, projects, and stories to lection of coordinating fabrics, this fun pat- itized using BERNINA® Embroidery Through the Needle. tern is super easy to make using bias bind- Software. Alternate instructions included Page 2 ing as a finishing technique. for stitching without embroidery. Page 8 Page 20 BERNINA News Relax! BERNINA® is committed to pro- European Traveler Stitch Counter viding the tools to make your creative How does anyone manage to travel abroad The Stitch Counter function adds another sewing easier and more enjoyable – with only one suitcase? More travel secrets facet to the creation of elaborate stitch machines, software, accessories, and, of from Sandra Betzina – what to pack, what recipes, such as this Herringbone Chevron course, lots of inspiring project ideas. to wear, what to leave at home. pattern. Page 3 Page 10 Page 24 Chocolate Lace Floral Bouquet Quilt Make it Personal Wearable art is beautiful, but often too Benartex fabrics and simple weaving tech- Explore the use of embroidered lettering “over the top” to wear in real life. JoAnn niques combine to produce a garden of with a variety of special effects for all of Musso shares her tips for translating one of delightful blooms on this dimensional your sewing projects. her BERNINA® Fashion Show entries, quilted wallhanging. Page 26 “Amazing Lace”, into an elegant outfit for Page 12 special occasions. Buttonhole Compensation Attachment Page 4 Quilt Leadership Award Trouble with buttonholes in thick or Meet Caryl Bryer Fallert, talented art quil- uneven fabrics? No more! This new acces- Vintage Workshop Sachet & Pillow ter and winner of the 2004 BERNINA® sory makes stitching buttonholes in unruly Antique alphabets and stylized flowers Quilt Leadership Award. fabrics easy! grace these lovely accents, but these “vin- Page 17 Page 28 tage” textiles are actually “high-tech”, embellished with machine embroidery and Get Stuck On Stabilizers computer-printed fabric. Here’s the latest information about three Page 6 new types of stabilizers you may need for your next project! Page 18 1 THROUGH THE NEEDLE H O We Are... WGAYLE SUSAN JO JOANN HILLERT BECK LEICHTE MUSSO BERNINA® Managing Editor Chocolate News Editor Lace An avid sewer since she was a young girl, Gayle With a background in Art and Home Economics, Currently stitching a collection of purses and JoAnn Musso has been sewing and designing for has managed to combine her vocation and her Susan is interested in all types of sewing and totebags, Jo is constantly on the lookout for 45 years. She teaches and lectures on her embel- avocation. As Vice President of Education for crafts and has written several sewing books. She quick, simple projects to share with beginning lishment techniques for wearable art, judges BERNINA® of America, Inc. she is responsible for loves to be creative on paper as well as in fabric seamsters. As Editor for BERNINA® of America, wearable art competitions around the US and has training, education and testing functions relating and is the Director of Communications for Jo is instrumental in the production of Through made several garments for the Fairfield and to all BERNINA® products. BERNINA® of America, Inc. the Needle. BERNINA® Fashion Shows. She exhibits and sells garments in galleries around the world. AMY MARTHE VICKI KAY BARICKMAN YOUNG TRACY LYNCH The Vintage Floral Turnabout HICKMAN Workshop Bouquet Jackets Stabilizers Quilt Amy Barickman, founder of The Vintage Marthe majored in illustration and received a BFA from Vicki’s unique sense of style and her obvious love As a Card Production Assistant at OESD, Inc., Workshop, has integrated the timeless beauty of The Cleveland Institute of Art. Since1996 she has com- of sewing and machine embroidery serves her Kay’s job is to assist in the development of vintage artwork with the accessibility of the bined her love of drawing and sewing as a BERNINA® well as the owner of BERNINA® Sewing Studio in designs and embroidery cards for BERNINA® computer and inkjet printer to create an out- Resource Trainer in New England. She has designed two Lubbock, TX. Her free-wheeling approach to and OESD, and to create projects using the standing variety of projects. Her signature Click- embroidery collections for BERNINA® – Hats and Shoes sewing is evident in her personal motto – embroidery designs. She has a BS degree in n-Craft® CD-ROM series and inkjet printables and Just Desserts. Her illustrations grace the pages of “Lighten Up. Be Fearless. Have Fun.” Home Economics Education from Oklahoma including fabrics, transfers and canvas will lead several BERNINA® publications, including artista State University. sewing enthusiast to limitless possibilities. Sampler and the recently released Tassels & Trims book. VELINA SANDRA JILL JENNIFER WINCHELL BETZINA DANKLEFSEN GIGAS Timing is The European Stitch A Personal Everything Traveler Counter Touch After sewing and quilting many years on her Sandra is the dynamic host of HGTV's Sew As an Education Consultant for BERNINA® of Jennifer, an Education Consultant for BERNINA® BERNINA® 1130, a friend sold Velina a used Deco Perfect, and the author of Fabric Savvy, Fast Fit, America, Jill is the resident master of stitch of America, combines serging, sewing, and 500. Machine embroidery quickly became a and the Power Sewing series of books and manipulation. She loves playing with them, embroidery in many of her updated interpreta- favorite and she progressed quickly into an videos, as well as the syndicated Power Sewing changing them, and using them to create textured tions of favorite patterns, many of which incorpo- artista 180E. Velina enjoys creating original proj- column. She travels all over the United States and fabrics for garment and craft projects. rate decorative serger techniques in unexpected ects that incorporate machine embroidery. She Canada as a lecturer, teacher, and guest on places. lives with her family in Birch Bay, Washington. television sewing shows. 2 ISSUE 11 BY GAYLE HILLERT Do the events of the day, the week, and the month ever overwhelm Foot #37 in addition to an embroi- you? Isn’t it a mystery that we now have so many time saving dery card with outline quilting gadgets and appliances but our lives are more hectic than ever? designs by Holice Turnbow. If Isn’t it special and unbelievably wonderful when we can slow down you have always wanted to time and pursue our creative interests? Please stop for a while have a BERNINA® for quilting, when you receive your Through the Needle magazine to pour your- yet were intrigued self a cup of tea or coffee, sit on a comfortable couch or chair, put with the idea of your feet up and take time to relax a moment and enjoy some quiet embroidery as time for yourself. well, the 185QEE is the In addition to the articles and projects in this issue of Through the perfect machine Needle, I want to let you know of some fabulous new things from to realize your BERNINA®. Take a look at the affordable new ways to enter the dreams. BERNINA® family—either through the bernette® machines priced under $500 or through the new activa line of machines—easy to BERNINA® is proud of its heritage—a company founded 110 years carry to class because of the lighter weight (approximately 17 ago by a genius inventor—still owned by that same family today. pounds), but powerful and packed with stitches and features. The 165E Heritage Edition is a testimony to the heritage of Over the next few months, BERNINA® is introducing several new “Swiss Tradition and presser feet and accessories for you to add to your collection— American Creativity”. Check Clear Embroidery Foot #39, Free Motion Couching Foot #43, the out this machine for Patchwork Foot with Guide #57, and the amazing Buttonhole the perfect Compensation Attachment (shown on page 28 of this issue) that marriage of allows you to sew perfect buttonholes on thick or uneven fabrics. precision and Visit your local BERNINA® dealer and ask for a demo so you can quality that see how these accessories can help your sewing. includes both One of the cleverest sewing and sewing inventions to embroidery.