SERGING PROJECT Polygon Patchwork What’s Pages 20-21 Inside? • BERNINA® News • Sew Crazy • Serged Patches Jacket • BERNINA® Fashion: French Handbag • Quilts + Embroidery • True Friends Pocket Wall Hanging • Nothing I Make Fits! • Ribbon Dresser Scarf • Featured Foot: Clear Foot #34 • Stitch Recipe • All Through the Seasons April is BERNINA • Software Skill Builders: ® Fabulous PhotoSnap Quilt Month! • Professional Profile Bernina’s “Start Quilting with Alex” Classes “At Bernina, it’s easy to make quilts and easy to make friends.” –Alex Anderson, host of America’s most popular quilting show “I love to help people discover quilting for the very first time. And now, my $10off any easy-to-learn classes are available from your local Bernina Dealer. You’ll “Start Quilting with Alex” class receive simple, straightforward instruction on basic quilting techniques. It’s so easy, anyone can do it!” Clip this coupon today and take it to your “And Bernina Dealers are known for bringing you the finest educational Bernina Dealer. Hurry! support in the sewing industry. Not to mention fun! They have everything you Classes start this spring. need to get started. My ‘Start Quilting with Alex’ kits include all of these fun fabrics, plus the necessary tools to make these two time-honored quilts.” Offer ends June 30, 2003. “Best of all, you’re going to make so many new friends. So, come join the Visit www.berninausa.com for a quilting community. Stop by your Bernina Dealer and sign up today. Classes list of participating dealers. start this spring!” TTN01 ©2003 Bernina of America March 2003 GAYLE HILLERT BERNINA® News An avid sewer since she was a young H O girl, Gayle has managed to combine her vocation and her avocation. As Vice President of Education for BERNINA® of America, Inc. she is responsible for training, education and testing functions We Are... relating to all BERNINA® products. WSUSAN JO ALICE SUSAN BECK LEICHTE KOLB FEARS Editor at Serged Sew Crazy BERNINA® Large Patches Fashion Jacket, Quilts + Embroidery With a background in Art and Home Currently in a garment and small quilt Alice has taught quilt-making throughout Susan enjoys all types of sewing, especially Economics, Susan is interested in all types phase, Jo is constantly on the lookout for the USA, Japan, and Switzerland, and is garment making. She got hooked on quilt- of sewing and crafts and has written sever- quick, simple projects to share with begin- noted for her understated embellishment of ing while making a quilted jacket, and now al sewing books. She loves to be creative on ning seamsters. As Editor for BERNINA® of quilts and garments. Living in the Texas hill enjoys quilts throughout her home. She paper as well as in fabric and is the Director America, Jo is instrumental in the produc- country, Alice spends her free time with finds inspiration everywhere, especially of Education for BERNINA® of America, Inc. tion of Through the Needle. family and friends and enjoys her flower through her travels as an Educator for gardens and goats. BERNINA® of America. KAY SANDRA NANCY MARLIS LYNCH BETZINA BEDNAR BENNETT True Friends Nothing I Polygon Ribbon Pocket Wall Make Fits! Patchwork Dresser Hanging Scarf As a Card Production Assistant at OESD, Sandra is the dynamic host of HGTV's Sew One of BERNINA®’s freelance sewing and Marlis creates unique interpretations of Inc., Kay’s job is to assist in the develop- Perfect, and the author of Fabric Savvy, serging experts, Nancy also creates exqui- classic and heirloom sewn garments, incor- ment of designs and embroidery cards Fast Fit, and the Power Sewing series of site stitched garments, quilts, and crafts. porating decorative stitching techniques for BERNINA® and OESD, and to create books and videos, as well as the syndicated She is also co-author of The Encyclopedia and embroidery in imaginative projects. As projects using the embroidery designs. She Power Sewing column. She travels all over of Sewing Machine Techniques, as well as an Education Consultant for BERNINA® of has a BS degree in Home Economics the United States and Canada as a lecturer, author of several other books and contribu- America, Marlis puts her own stamp of Education from Oklahoma State University. teacher, and guest on television sewing tor to many sewing publications. creativity on machine sewn projects. shows. LYN JILL KERRY JENNIFER LACKEY DANKLEFSON FINN GIGAS Featured Stitch Recipe All Through Software Foot the Seasons Skill Builder’s Lyn spent 10 years teaching Middle School As an Education Consultant for BERNINA® Kerry learned the love of sewing as a little Jennifer, an Education Consultant for Home Economics. She taught a variety of of America, Jill is the resident master of girl from her mother. Originally a garment BERNINA® of America, combines serging, sewing classes in both Sewing and Quilt stitch manipulation. She loves playing with sewer, she has gone through many phases sewing, and embroidery in many of her Stores. Heirloom and Embellishment, creat- them, changing them, and using them to of sewing and crafting. Her recent and up-dated interpretations of favorite ing textures and patterns with fabric are her create textured fabrics for garment and craft longest lasting interest is quilting and patterns, many of which incorporate favorite types of sewing. Lyn has worked projects. thread manipulation. With a background in decorative serger techniques in unexpected freelance for several years and is now a full- education, Kerry is the newest Educator for places. time Educator for Bernina of America. Bernina of America. 1 Through the Needle BERNINA® FASHION: French Handbag, Page 10 Nothing I Make Fits!, Page 16 All Through the Seasons, Page 24 WHO WE ARE... QUILTS + EMBROIDERY RIBBON DRESSER SCARF Meet the excellent staff and stitchers who What do you get when you cross a quilter Fabulous ribbons and subtle decorative contribute tips, project ideas and stories to with an embroiderer? Some really threads and stitches combine to create an Through the Needle. impressive quilts. elegant dresser scarf. Page 1 Pages 12-13 Page 22-23 TRUE FRIENDS POCKET WALL HANGING BERNINA® NEWS ALL THROUGH THE SEASONS This pretty little project – featuring April is BERNINA® Quilt Month – join A limited color palette contributes to the embroidery designs by Nancy Halvorsen – the celebration! Two new machines, and stark beauty of this quilt. Monochromatic makes a perfect gift for any “true friend”. quilting classes designed by Alex trees are digitized using artista PhotoSnap Anderson. Pages 14-15 software. Page 3 Page 24-25 NOTHING I MAKE FITS! Practical pattern-fitting advice for those of STITCH RECIPE SEW CRAZY us who aren’t fashion models, from Sandra Elegant along the border of table or bed Tips for planning your first (or next!) crazy Betzina, author of Fast Fit: Easy Pattern linens, this Scalloped Floral Edging makes patch project from Alice Kolb, author of Alterations for Every Figure. use of Mirror Image and Directional Sew Crazy with Decorative Threads & Pages 16-17 Stitching functions. Stitches. Page 26 Pages 4-5 FEATURED FOOT New Clear Foot #34/34C has a clear sole which provides visibility of the stitching SOFTWARE SKILL BUILDER’S: SERGED PATCHES JACKET area while providing fabric stability. Uses FABULOUS PHOTOSNAP Who says patchwork is just for quilts? Use 1 include stitching a scant /4” seam, perfect artista PhotoSnap does more than digitize your serger to piece together a jacket from for patchwork. photos: use this add-on program to create your favorite fleece prints and solids. Pages 18 photo frames, lettering, and “tapestry”. Pages 6-8 Page 27 POLYGON PATCHWORK BERNINA® FASHION: FRENCH HANDBAG Inspired by an idea submitted by Beverly PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Capture memories of a favorite trip or Haas, Bernina Sew and So, Dickenson, ND, Meet Daniel Tillman, National Sales event in a fashionable totebag that is this creative patchwork technique features Manager for Benartex, Inc., and avid uniquely yours. folded squares and decorative stitching. quilter. Page 10-11 Page 20-21 Page 28 2 March 2003 BY GAYLE HILLERT pring is the perfect time for renewal. The earth sheds the quilters, the vendors mall contains wonderful fabrics, notions, gift Sfrosts and coldness of winter, the animal kingdom awakes items, jewelry, machines, and quilt exhibits to spark your creativ- from the long winter of hibernation, foraging for food and shelter, ity and enthusiasm. BERNINA® of America will sponsor a special and the human race renews interest and enthusiasm in many dif- exhibit showcasing quilts enhanced using embroidery machines ferent areas. and software. While machine embroidery is still relatively new to the world of quilting, antique and crazypatch quilts show that ne way that BERNINA® hand embroidery has always been a part of quilt making. Quilts Ois joining the renewal from United States designers as well as Australian quilters will be process is to encourage peo- featured in the exhibit. (See article on page 12.) ple to learn a new sewing technique or hobby – to try age through the exciting offerings in this issue of Through the something entirely different. PNeedle and find projects from quilting to serging and stitch- Have you ever wanted to ing to software, plus an article by Sandra Betzina (pages 16-17), learn to quilt? BERNINA® who is always able to take the mystery out of fitting a garment dealers will be offering two properly. quilt classes this spring as ® part of the “Start Quilting” ake your trusty BERNINA to your dealer for a spring clean- program hosted by national Ting – while there, discover all the new products your dealer quilt maker and designer has to offer you, and celebrate the joy of exploration that every Alex Anderson. Alex and spring brings. Test drive our new machines – the artista 185E, a your dealer offer the “Rail powerful sewing and embroidery system with great stitch quality, Fence” quilt as the perfect average embroidery speed of 600 stitches per minute, needle way to begin the creative threader and thread cutter, and a fascinating array of process of quilt making.