DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

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 (me [...]

I did it! I bought the Bernina 440 with the BSR! Now, as of this moment, I’ve truly had very little time to play, since I picked it up on my way to the Black Forest Quilt Guild meeting last night, and it was very late when I got home. Then this morning, I taught [...]

Bernina!! Yes, you heard right, I’m shopping for a Bernina sewing machine. I know, I’ve been a confirmed Pfaff girl forever, and even my mom said “But you don’t like those machines, I thought!” when I told her. So here’s the deal: Pfaff machines have always done what I wanted without fuss, and done it [...]

We worked on more freehand feathers in the morning on day two of the workshop, and I discovered that it wasn’t just me having trouble with the feathers on the inside curves looking deformed, it was a common problem. I can make great feathers on the outside curve of a spine, but the inside ones [...]

Okay, I’m sure you all thought I fell off the planet, but I really am here, life (and quilting) just got in my way for a bit. I spent ten days in the States last week and the one before for a machine quilting workshop with Diane Gaudynski at the Museum of the American Quilter’s [...]

I really don’t think I’m all that unorganized. Yeah, my studio (and the rest of the house, it could honestly be said) is a bit cluttered, but I’ve always said that know where everything is. I do have a pretty good memory, and that helps most of the time. Every once in a while though, [...]

When your machine is having issues, but you know exactly what to do to fix the problem. It’s a great WFF (and a relief!) when you are able to troubleshoot effectively to fix any minor problems you may be having with your machine during a quilting session. Keep the following things in mind to be [...]