Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 11:53AM At last! That took a little longer than I expected, but the tutorial is pretty in depth, I think (I hope!) anyone, regardless of experience, should be able to follow it.
You can download it here.
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Enjoy! And I would love to see pictures of yours!
Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 4:58AM ;)
I’m up to twelve pages on the Bernina 830 cover tutorial, but the front and back pieces are now complete, so the rest of the tutorial shouldn’t take too much longer, I hope.
You can see exactly what it looks like now! I really liked the fancy Bernina Glitz logo, re-sized to fit the horizontal fabric strip.
Not to scare anyone with the length of the tutorial, this isn’t difficult at all, I am simply photographing every step, because we all know I’m word challenged!
Today I’ll decide how I’m going to quilt the gusset section. I really like the simple crosshatching I did on the serger cover, but I may do something different on this piece.
Ideas are simmering for the 630 cover! Same fabrics of course, but it will be totally different in design.
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 12:46PM Is in the making! I’m spending the day on creating the Bernina 830/820 machine cover tutorial. Of course it will be very similar to the one I did on the Bernina 1300MDC serger, since I want all my new covers to match! I should have it done in the next few days.
Recently Bernina International (at least, I think that’s where I found it!) Australia (thanks Trish and Chris!) posted a free “Bernina” embroidery design, and I think I’d like to add it to the 830 cover this time. To see how it might look, I took a picture of my cover as it looks right now. I saved the image as a jpeg file, then in the Bernina embroidery software, I went to the Settings menu, Fabric Display, and selected Fabric->Centered, and browsed over to my saved image file.
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Then I simply inserted the embroidery file, played with the thread colors, and moved the embroidery motif around to see if and where I liked it. Pretty cool eh? Sometimes I need to do things like this to see how my ideas look.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 4:50PM I’ve been playing all day with my Bernina embroidery software. I’ve had numerous requests to create a tutorial for the sewing machine cover I made for my 830… and I intend to, only to do so I have to make it again, so I’m changing a few things.
Since this will be specifically for the Bernina 830, I’m playing around with a new “patch” for the front of the cover.
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I like the circles, my original thought was leaning more towards a modern look, while my end result was definitely leaning to the shabby chic side (well with different fabrics it would be!). I decided to make the patches a little more organic looking, and created this free-form square in the Corel portion of the software. I made the placement line for the appliqué a fill stitch to begin with, so I could use the outline tool to create the offset lines.
Then I simply reverted the original shape back to a single outline stitch, and changed the stitches on the outlines to decorative stitches.
I duplicated the shape of the free-forms square for the “Made to create” text so it could follow the same path… I’m sure I chose some round about way to do so but I got it done in the end. The hazards of being self taught!
Bernina generously offered the gorgeous logo for the Bernina 830 LE as a free embroidery file on their website, so I inserted it here, and added the “Made to create… Bernina” text after seeing that on a recent webinar… I guess “nothing sews like a Bernina” is old hat now eh?
Anyway, I’m thinking I like this patch better… and how cool would it look to make small ones (with empty centers… or maybe filled with stitch recipes!) and scatter them over the cream colored gusset? (Thank you Dee, for the description… I had no idea the solid section of the machine cover that goes from the motor side, over the top and down the needle side was called a gusset)!
While stitching out a test sample of the above patch, my presser foot came loose, caught in the hoop and twisted the mechanism that holds the presser foot on. I had to loosen it to straighten out the presser foot, and a scary piece of metal fell out while I was doing so. Ack! I took a picture, posted it on my Bernina dealer back in Missouri’s facebook page, and within thirty minutes I had a picture showing me exactly where the piece went back in… how’s that for service? The Quilt Sampler in Springfield Missouri rocks! Yes I know, I’ve told you a hundred times… but they have really been super over the years.
