I am a lover of needlework… I have been all my life and totally enjoy the smell, feel and colors of threads and fabrics…. I live on a small rural hobby farm in southern Iowa on the beautiful plains of the Midwest… I sometimes imagine that Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family came through near here in their big covered wagon traveling south ….Lewis and Clark were near here as well and the Mormon Trail is just eleven miles from where I live…
This is a beautiful place, but that is what the word Iowa means, “The Beautiful Land”…
I am married and have three grown children and nine wonderful grandchildren…
I love to garden and cook and of course sew… I am a Bernina gal through and through and am so thankful to own a 770 QEE… I love to do machine embroidery and specialty needlework…I quilt, am a garment sewer, I love making beautiful bags and my Bernina never fails me…
I also enjoy breeding and showing AKC Pugs and Pomeranians…
Thank you for visiting my blog, may your day be filled with wonderful blessings!
Month: March 2020
Some Bunny To Love, ITH
In The Hoop Project
An in the hoop embroidery project means a project will be applique’d or embroidered in the hoop… some ITH projects are done entirely in the hoop and some are done partially in the hoop and then finished on the sewing machine.
ITH designs are easy and fun and you just sit and watch your embroidery machine construct the project for you!
This project is an ITH design from Sweet Pea… it comes in two sizes and in this video I am making the larger size.
I’m using cotton fabrics, thermolamb fleece, cotton thread and Embroidery thread…I have a 90/14 needle in the machine and I am using Vilene water soluable stabilizer…
I printed off the PDF file that was in the design file I downloaded and simply followed the steps…
There are many many different kinds of ITH designs, even quilt blocks!
Have fun!
Part 1
Part 2
Reducing A Design In Software Or On Your Bernina
Have you ever gotten well in to a project and then decided to add embroidery? It happens to me a lot!
This is one of those projects and how I made my idea work without any problems…
Try it! You can do it too!
Don’t Be Afraid! Using The BSR!
Bernina has a wonderful foot you can purchase, ( mine came with my machine) that will actually make your free motion quilting look more professional than you can even imagine! The stitches will be exactly the same distance apart and all you have to do is move the fabric!
I’m sharing this little tutorial for you to see how easy it is and to encourage you to give this foot a try…
Have fun sewing today
Fiddlestix And Stitches 