My new Bernina 570

I have not been posting much lately so I thought I would post here what I do on face book, mostly to keep track of what I do as I don't think I have many followers :-) I have started to work on my stitch sampler for me new Bernini 570 that I got at Christmas. What I have found so far is two layers of cotton calico cotton works better than one layer of cotton and interfacing. I divided the fabric in to lines and then rows so may spacing would be better. I also left a space to add the stitch number later. I am writing the numbers in a notebook in the same order that I stitched them. Twenty done, 150 to go........

I go into the program of each stitch (the i button) and check the length of the stitch, it shows it in mm on the left. I then program to do so many stitches. Most of them I do 4-5 but on the really longer stitches only 1-2. I also program a stay stitch (knot) at the beginning of the first stitch. At the end of the row have not figured out how to do it so simply go back to straight stitch and click i button and put a knot. Sew a couple of stitches and you have your knot. Hope this helps anyone who wants to make one.

machine embroidery

I bought a second hand embridery module for my bernina a few months ago and finally had the courage to unpack and try to connect to my machine. It took a while to read through the manual and do all the things you need to do but I was so pleased that when I sent an embroidery from my computer to the machine it actually worked......... hurrah !

Here are two small embroideries I did to try it out. Now my dream is to be able to create my own but that will have to wait quite a while as those programs are quite expensive.

Hope you like it

hugs, Joanne