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Bernina 440 - My favorite “feature”

Saturday, January 12, 2008

When I was twelve and I asked my mom to teach me to sew, one of the first lessons was how to use her Riccar sewing machine. It was a pretty high-end model, built to last, and as far as I know, still runs great. The only thing I specifically remember from that [...]

Clearing the mechanism

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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I’ve been feeling a bit overloaded and distracted lately, with this nagging, but just out of reach feeling that I’m not quite doing what I should be or really want to be doing. Sometimes it’s easy to get completely sidetracked by minutiae that in the scheme of things means (or will mean) absolutely nothing, [...]

Quilt Retreat: Quilt, Eat, Sleep, Repeat!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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High on the (very) short list of things to love about living here: spending the weekend quilting (and eating and sleeping) in an 850-year-old monastery. The Kloster SchÃ¶ntal, to be exact. The condensed version: good food, good company, good quilting, happy weekend. The uncut version: Kloster SchÃ¶ntal is about one hour from [...]

Bernina 440 - Free motion foot is a drag

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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So we’re still making friends here, my new Bernina and I. Doing some free motion quilting and getting to know each other better. When I used the machine in the workshop at the Museum, I was working on sample sandwiches with no patchwork, just two pieces of plain fabric with batting in between. [...]

Making friends with the Bernina 440

Friday, April 6, 2007

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One day, I’m in love with it, and a few days later, we’re still making friends! Well, I am still in love with my new Bernina, but I’m also still trying to be friends with it for machine quilting. The embroidery part is absolutely awesome, and I like it much better than the [...]

2 x Nadine! Coincidence, or just great minds thinking alike?

Sunday, March 25, 2007

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Here’s a pic of my friend Nadine and I at the BFQ Guild meeting last Friday evening: What was especially funny about this? We were probably both thinking “The meeting is fun, but I can’t wait to go home and play with my new Bernina!” Each of us had just purchased the Bernina 440 [...]