Welcome back!

Trying to post to the internet lately has been a most frustrating experience, so I am going to try and trick it!  A few of you may 'get it' but the others may be confused.  I recently taught the final part of the "Sterling Life" class. Many of the ladies decided to make a fall table runner rather than to make the borders.

 Here is Laurie A.'s version in her favorite colors of purple and green!

 

Here is the center flower.   Rather than add the stumpwork center she decided to only used the base so she cut put a vase on her table.

  

Here is Yvonne's version using many of the same fabrics that I used.

 

Wendy M selected a fall border which included all of these colors in her design. 

 

Diana M also had fall in mind when she selected her colors from her 'stash'! 

 

Barbara C and I used the same fall border but we had different backgrounds.  (I copied her!) She selected a light colored batik.

 Here is my version on black linen. ( Finished table runner coming soon.... Stippling now with the BSR)

 Barbara G was continuing on on with her quilt borders and had a mishap along the way.  She was unable to finish as much embroidery as the others.

Jean Z had a border in mind for her design and I snapped a pic of both her stitching along with her border.

There are three other color combinations that I am anxious to share, but not yet.  I will post them as soon as I can!  I hope you have been inspired by our artwork and will give it a try!

 

Love is in the Air on Berkeley Square

Love is indeed in the air in this home on Berkeley Square.  I used one of the cottages called Happiness House from the Sarah Vedeler CD to create the Valentine welcome mat for my home.

It was easy to add the wording with the Bernina V7 software and the CrystalWorks heart with the Bernina DesignWorks program.  A very quick project and actually done before Valentine's Day!

Look for more holiday welcome mats throughout the year.  If you missed the Christmas design, you can find it here.

Update on It's A Sterling Life on Berkeley Square

I am having another class this week because some ladies had a conflict with the first one.  But that was Ok because 12 in this class was waaaay too many!

But I wanted to share with you Kathy S's finished center block.  She plans to quilt the quilt on her long arm machine, so she wanted to eliminate all of the crystals surrounding the center medallion.

Here is a close up of her lettering.

She also shared her steps with the Bernina DesignWorks Divas FB page.  Come join the fun here.  The hardest decision she had to make was to find the perfect font  for the design.

She used the V7 software and used the same concept that Sarah Vedeler did with lining up the lettering utilizing the placement stitch in the original files.

Beautiful job Kathy!!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is always such a crazy time of the year.  BUT I wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas with  a little of my stitchin'

"Merry Christmas" is from the 82009 Bernina Holiday Magic collection and the cottages are from the Sarah Vedler designs - It's A Sterling Life on Berkeley Square"

Enjoy!

Part I - Cutting the files with the Cutwork Tool in "It's A Sterling Life in Berkeley Square"

Well it has been over a month since I last blogged the project I am working on. If you think this is a quick project, hmmmm -it is NOT!

I am currently working on the two houses to the right and left of the center block and I am challenging myself once again.  The first house that I am working on is Prosperity Place. ( I will continue on with that section in another blog post.)

The center block designs were cut with the Bernina cutting tool and if you are missing any files in the original CD, just let your dealer know and they will have the missing cut files for you.

You will have to purchase the cutwork plate as well although many of you may have received it when you  purchased your Bernina.

You may also purchased extra cutting blades but honestly  I have been cutting with the same blade for over a year. ( The tool comes with two blades)

I only printed out the sheets as I needed them but one one of our customers printed out all of the sheets.  Not sure how many there are...

I then cut the appliqué fabric into the sizes as recommended in the instructions. I ironed the Appli-Kay Wonder to the back of each piece and if there were multiples, I stacked them together using a light spray of 505.

The first file I cut was the Yellow fabric.  Unfortunately I was not planning on blogging my experience so I have only a few pictures of the actual cuts.

This cut is 4 layers stacked on top of one another and then cut all at once.

This layer is two separate pieces but cut all in the same hooping.

If you noticed I placed all of the cut outs in a sandwich baggie BUT the biggest mistake I made was NOT to number them on the back.  Be sure to do this as once I was finished I had a ton of cuts that looked similar to the others...

I took me approximately 3 hours to cut out all of the designs and organize them for the center block.  This is actually not bad for all of the pieces that are included in the center block design.

if you have any questions, please feel to comment below and I will do my best to answer your questions.

Coming next...cutting the house designs with the Silhouette Cameo

Welcome to Berkeley Square!

Last week I started the center block for the brand new collection from Sarah Vedler - "It's A Sterling Life on Berkeley Square".  You can find the pictures for this collection on here website here.

       

Sterling Edition Quilt

• Finished size 77” x 77”
• Compatible with 7 Series or 8 Series machine using the maxi or jumbo hoop

This is close-up of the center block of the quilt.

                                   

You will receive this collection when you purchase the Bernina 880 Sterling Edition ( coming out soon!) or you can purchase the CD today from the Bernina Sewing Center in Tampa, FL.  I will be stitching my project on my signed 830LE Edition.

                     

Bernina 880 Sterling Edition Includes:

• Exquisite Faceplate Design
• “It’s a Sterling Life on Berkeley Square”, quilt and embroidery design collection created for BERNINA by Sarah Vedeler
• “It’s a Sterling Life” Embroidery Kit
• Ornamental silver plate for engraving and adhering to the machine
• Invitation to an exclusive 3-day Sterling Retreat at the BERNINA Creative Center with special guest Sarah Vedeler
• Special accessory and software offers included
• PaintWork Tool
• CutWork Tool
• CrystalWork Tool
• Rotary Punch Tool
• Rotary Punch Needle Plate
• Commemorative Holiday Ornament

One of our customers (thank you Betsy) suggested to me that I start blogging my stitching progress and so I decided that would be a terrific idea!  I usually stick with the original color wave when I start a huge project such as this.  It saves me from buying twice as much fabric!

Step 1 - Selecting the fabric, threads and stabilizers.

The main fabric that I selected is "Dimples" By Andover Fabrics (color C2).  It is a great tone-on-tone blue grey and perfect match for this collection.

The brights I selected are from the Jazz Basic collection by Timeless Treasures.  Here are a few of the colors that I selected.

Sarah's instructions included the Aurifill threads but I selected mainly Floriani threads for my project.

                                                        

Here are my color matches for the quilt:

Black - Floriani 900

Lemon - Floriani 501

Yellow - Floriani 523

Pale Yellow- Floriani 521

Dusty Orange - Floriani 172

Burnt Orange - Floriani 755

Light Leaf Green - Floriani 2015

Olive - Floriani 210

Fuschia - RA 5560

Light Magenta - RA 5561

The stabilizers i selected are:

Floriani Medium Tear Away

                                                                            Floriani Appli-Kay

 

                 

                 

I hope you join me on this blogging journey.  Please come back often and now it is back to stitching!

and sew on....

Adeline