MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!



SOFTWARE SAMPLER

Software Sampler is a week earlier for August than we normally meet. So for August the class will be on the 20th at 1pm.

See you then!!

NEW EMBROIDERY

One booth I visited at BU this year was that of Jenny Haskins. Simon and Margaret where manning the booth. I ordered their newest design collections from Brewer and was pleasantly surprised to see them in the latest magazine that just arrived in the store. I picked up my copy on Saturday so you'll be getting a call soon if you have us ordering a copy for you.

The designs shown on the cover are from her 3D Embroidery Magic design collection. She uses Krinkle Magic as part of the embroidery process for some awsome flowers and textured quilting stitches. I saw these in person in their booth at BU and they are as exquisite as they appear in the magazine.

Sam's Love Hearts, Perfect Bliss and more I can't recall were also ordered for future projects and classes.

Enjoy this issue - many beautiful designs and projects are found in this issue.

MORE ON CHLOE

I'm at a quandry right now on the last lilac block to embroider. The picture shows the embroidery fits in the lilac block but the recent (March)  instruction changes by BERNINA have the design overlapping on both long sides. I was very careful to keep the lilac pieces during the cutting just in case I needed another piece so I can remake it if I need to. Then on another page they recognize you can chose either method. I think after writing this post I've made my mind up to just center the design and embroider, letting the design overlap to the thin inner border; option A. In absolute worse case scenario if I absolutely do not like the look I can remake. The kit did come with about 1/3 yd extra of everything but the lilac! I've got all the borders stitched and just this one lilac piece and 2 other blocks are left to stitch out. These other 2 blocks will have the center of the main block stitched and that will go very quickly because they aren't a very filled design.
Then I will layer the quilt, batting and backing and at this point the plan is to do some of the quilting embroidery designs from Diane Gaudynski's latest collection then finish with some BSR fill in work.

CHLOE CORNER DESIGNS UPDATE

I decided that I would rotate these so they offset each other for the bottom two corners. For the top left it's also rotated so it is mirrored of the bottom left.

CHLOE PROGRESS ON THE 830

This is the large corner design for each of the ( 4) 3 corners. I ended up first rotating the design in the hoop so it fit the length of the hoop. Then I hooped my stabilizer. Next I used the seam of the 2 flying geese blocks to butt up against the side of the inner hoop. That helped keep the pieced fabric section straight in the hoop.

I hadn't even thought about any other border than the one from the kit but once this design finished (some 80 plus minutes later) this screen displayed.

On the right side shows an option using endless embroidery. Wouldn't that make a beautiful border on this quilt! If you have the time that is. I could see it stitched on the Candice lavendar - the same fabric that the corners are stitched on. It took me all afternoon today to stitch out corners 2 and 6. Maybe tomorrow night I can get another one stitched out, with any luck!

The next posting I will show the beautiful method I found to do the center block on the 830. It's two hoopings, even with the jumbo hoop but this is a very cool techinque that I'll share.

Once A Year Specal

BERNINA is offering this special only on this coming Saturday. If you've been on the border regarding a new machine or especially the 8 series machine now is the time. This is how I purchased my 830.