bernina q20

Invisafil Thread on the Bernina Q20 from The Quilt Yarn

I have been a big fan of 100wt Invisafil Thread from Wonderfil Threads ever since I did Bethanne Nemesh' online workshops. Up to then I had been using Invisafil mainly for stitch-in-the-ditch but was encouraged through those workshops to give it a go for background quilting.

Usually I have no tension issues with the thread having understood that it needs a lower tension on top and maybe a little bit of an adjustment on the bobbin tension. I recently started another background filler project using the same orange thread that I had previously used on an earlier wall hanging. I ...

added by Karin 2 weeks, 6 days ago. under bernina q20 , invisafil 100wt thread , wonderfil specialty threads

Progress on Colourwash Quilt from The Quilt Yarn

My list from last week included:

-make a start on my background filler project from way back

-continue on my scrap quilt blocks (have made 15 so far)

-continue on the new 'colourwash project

Worked consistently over the week which was a good feeling. Started my background filler project

Nice, but won't do...had all sorts of problems with Invisafil 100wt thread which was not totally new (the adjustment can get fiddly at times) but somewhat unexpected as I had used the same thread before on an earlier project. My tension was somewhat variable and I just could not ...

added by Karin 3 weeks, 1 day ago. under bernina q20 , colourwash batik quilt , scrappy strip quilt

The Great Illusion from The Quilt Yarn

I have been hard at work finishing the last charity quilt out of the pile that I had. With this particular quilt I was just not feeling it and decided to do a minimum of quilting-in-the-ditch on it just to get it done.

So I went around all the blocks only to realise in the end that this just would not do. The blocks were way too large to just leave them at 8in unquilted. As much as I did not want to do any further work on it, minimally quilted like this would make the quilt literally unusable. One ...

added by Karin 1 month ago. under bernina q20 , charity quilt , orange tree quilter's charity quilts , scrap quilts

Bernina Q20 Cover from The Quilt Yarn

Well, it's been 2 weeks since I started my cover for the machine. It has only taken me 3.5yrs and a bit to tackle this, so this was it. It had to be done.

I have come to the conclusion that I am definitely not a sewist. I might be a good quilter but I am sadly lacking some of the skills for straight sewing.

I followed two patterns (by Beverly Guhl and Terry Burns) that can be found in the Bernina FB group. I used the two as I also needed a slot for my side thread ...

added by Karin 3 months ago. under bernina q20 , cover for bernina q20

Playing with Rulers from The Quilt Yarn

I like to push the boundaries a bit with my sitdown longarm, i.e. see what else I can do on there and how difficult (or not) is it to push my quilt through the machine with the latest ideas I have. Given that I have a draw full of rulers I am always looking for new ideas to use my rulers to complete allover designs.

I recently picked up a panel quilt from the charity group I am involved in. The panel is "Elsa" from Frozen. The quilt is a little bit bigger than the usual baby quilt and ...

added by Karin 3 months, 1 week ago. under allover design , bernina q20 , charity quilt , orange peel design , ruler quilting

Festival of Quilts 2024 from The Quilt Yarn

I had the bestest time at the show! The atmosphere was great, the vendor hall so very tempting and on top of that I had the biggest surprise on the day.

As my readers would know (I talked about this for weeks on end) I entered my wholecloth quilt into the show. I have entered quilts before in the show and was familiar with the process. Normally if you win an award you do get a phone call a few days before to attend the award presentation. Well, I did not get a phone call so told everyone in the ...

added by Karin 4 months ago. under bernina q20 , wholecloth design , wholecloth quilting

Quilting With Invisafil - To Do Tuesday #78 from The Quilt Yarn

Last week I planned for:

- to sew up a cover for my label for the wholecloth and also prepare the hanging sleeve✅

- maybe make a start on my next background filler project✅

- seriously look at a new pattern for my Etsy shop (which I have neglected over the last few months). - Well, I did look at it, but that's about all!

I started on my background filler project with the rather tedious task of quilting in the ditch. As this is an improvisational piece the quilting in the ditch has to be done largely freehand. A definite skill to ...

added by Karin 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under bernina q20 , invisafil thread , to do tuesday #78

The Nude Quilt from The Quilt Yarn

Finished the quilting on another charity quilt which I ended up calling 'The Nude Quilt'. It is an exceptionally well made quilt top...the seams mainly line up and the maker has taken great care in painstakingly cutting out a motif to put into the corner stones for the sashing. Those little corner stones are just 1-1/2in squares, so that would have taken a lot of patience to cut out. The motifs then re-appear in the striking border.

The corners are neatly mitered. Love the muted colouring of this quilt and am assuming that the fabrics are quite old ...

added by Karin 4 months, 4 weeks ago. under bernina q20 , orange tree quilter's charity quilts

Basting on the Q20 from The Quilt Yarn

I love basting on the Q20 and have been using this function extensively.

One of the things I find extraordinarily useful is the programming that is possible for the Q20. It has five slots to occupy for different thread combinations that you use all the time.

Here are the ones that I use most with Gutermann highlighted as I put this in as a new preset. Feeling a bit frugal at the moment and decided to use some of my older threads to baste my quilts to use them up. So I decided to use the old Gutermann thread. Must ...

added by Karin 5 months ago. under basting , bernina q20

The Book Report, A Summer Sale, & me from Terificreations's Weblog

In about a week a new issue of The Book Report will release on YouTube with Lee Monroe of May Chappell Designs. It’s about COLOR and I ask her the very important question, “what’s the difference between the CMYK and standard RBG color wheels. I loved her answer! Summer Sale on E-books! C&T Publishing is… Continue reading The Book Report, A Summer Sale, & me

added by Teri Lucas Terificreations 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under bernina , bernina q 20 sitationary , bernina q20 , color , color & thread adv beginner quilting , georgetown tx , learn to stitch with reckless abandon , machine quilting , poppy quilt & sew , quilt , quilt practice , quilting , teri lucas , terificreations (Comments)

Working With Invisafil from The Quilt Yarn

It's been a couple of weeks again since I posted last. We have been incredibly busy with our upcoming kitchen renovation. All of a sudden it was all go, go go...we have been running around literally the whole week looking at appliances, getting things organised and life in general.

My wholecloth quilt is coming along however came to a standstill last week. I finished all the feathering, framing and grid and was about to start backfilling, however I did not like my thread choice. I am quilting the main elements of the wholecloth with a 50/2 Aurifil ...

added by Karin 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under bernina q20 , wholecloth quilt

5 Essential Tips When Wholecloth Quilting from The Quilt Yarn

I previously wrote a series of posts about wholecloth quilting starting HERE.

This post is an extension to that. Not having done a wholecloth in some time, I took some photos as I went along and also started to think about all the things that can go wrong when attempting a wholecloth. What follows are 5 critical points where things can get a bit haywire and will affect the outcome of your project.

1. Mark the crosshairs!

This is a really important step as your entire wholecloth is based on those few lines. To do this press your fabric really ...

added by Karin 7 months, 4 weeks ago. under bernina q20 , wholecloth quilting

To Do Tuesday #64 from The Quilt Yarn

My list from last week was smallish

- pinning, basting and making a start on the wholecloth; backing fabric is ready to go, just needs to be cut and then I will need to make a decision on thread.✅

- wash the background fabric for the Fox quilt❌

- maybe make a Fox block to get started on that project which will be ongoing until I have enough blocks for a quilt.❌

So I made a start (finally) on the wholecloth. I was thinking to do a post in the next few weeks on the trials and tribulations of wholecloth quilting...things never ...

added by Karin 8 months, 1 week ago. under bernina echo clips , bernina q20 , to do tuesday #64 , wholecloth quilting

Charity quilts from The Quilt Yarn

Finished the last two of my charity quilts before delivering them to the Orange Tree Quilters Group. These have been hanging around for a while so I used a production line set up...basting in one hit and using the same thread to finish them off.

First one

Cute little baby quilt...can't go wrong with clamshells. If you are interested in the process of quilting this with the Multi Clamshell ruler on a sitdown longarm machine, I have spoken about it a number of times on this blog and in a little bit more detail HERE.

Came out ...

added by Karin 1 year ago. under baby quilt , bernina q20 , clamshell quilting , orange tree quilter's charity quilts

Baptist Fan Quilting on a Sitdown Longarm from The Quilt Yarn

I thought I do a little post on how I go about quilting the Baptist Fan over a lap sized quilt (54 x 60in) using my new rulers from Michael Quilts. Hopefully someone will find this useful and take the plunge in terms of trying this out on one of their quilts.

Here are the templates (except for the smallest one)

Nice green fluorescent, so cannot be overlooked on your quilt. Nevertheless, I do set myself up with a chair on my right side where I park each template following its use. Having a quilt all scrunched up around you ...

added by Karin 1 year, 2 months ago. under baptist fan quilting , baptist fan rulers , bernina q20 , freemotionquilting

Clamshell Quilting from The Quilt Yarn

I thought it might be useful for me to do a post on clamshell quilting. I do use this overall design quite often on my baby quilts as it is a fun way to quilt and always looks great on those little quilts. Babies and clamshell just go together for some reason.

I recently finished a charity quilt with clamshells and while I was quilting along I thought that some may look at this and think that it is too hard to do over an entire quilt.

I use the Handiquilter Multi Clamshell ruler to do the quilting however there ...

added by Karin 1 year, 4 months ago. under baby quilt , bernina q20 , clamshell quilting , orange tree quilter's charity quilts

Edge-to-Edge Quilting from The Quilt Yarn

I finished my little panel quilt.

It's busy enough, so I just put a sashing and border around it. Very cute! Felt like an allover design and started looking at edge-to-edge designs at Urban Elementz. Of course I found something straight away...could not resist.

A new design from Hermione Agee called Lorien's Festival. It is a 6.5in wide pattern which is a good size for doing it on the sitdown longarm. When looking for designs that I can do on the Bernina Q20 I do look for designs that are nice and open given that I ...

added by Karin 1 year, 5 months ago. under bernina q20 , edge to edge design , edge-to-edge quilting , lorien's festival by hermione agee , urban elementz

My New Rulers Have Arrived! from The Quilt Yarn

I have been waiting patiently for my new rulers from Michael Quilts. I ordered them about mid-March and they arrived a few days ago which was incredibly fast considering the distance. Had one of the charity quilts ready to go...a cute little Nine Patch quilt in brown tones.

The rulers were packaged well and came with a page of instructions on how to use them. I have got the original Fab5 Fan set consisting of 3,5,7,9 and 11in half circle (Michael Quilts also sells an expansion set with the even numbers now).

I have done several ...

added by Karin 1 year, 7 months ago. under bernina q20 , fab5fan rulers , to do tuesday linky party

Choosing a Quilting Design from The Quilt Yarn

I finished one of the quilt tops from the Orange Tree Quilters group. Another beautiful little quilt!

It is a Kaleidoscope quilt...I had forgotten how effective they can look and remembered that I actually have got the template for this. Did buy the template set very early on in my quilting journey but never got around to actually make one of these, in fact forgot that I had this!

Like the colours...very tastefully put together.

Its a smallish sort of quilt...from memory about 52in square. In looking at it I was unsure how to quilt this. Did ...

added by Karin 1 year, 8 months ago. under bernina q20 , charity quilt , freemotionquilting , orange tree quilter's charity quilts , swirling design

Edge-to-Edge Design on a Sitdown Longarm from The Quilt Yarn

I finished my little charity quilt. Normally I would not do anything too involved on theses charity quilts...not because they are for charity but simply because I am volunteering my time and resources to quilt them. However I absolutely fell in love with the last charity quilt. Not sure what it is about this one, but I really like the very simple design and the colours of that quilt. The fabric reminds me of something but I cannot quite place it.

Such a pretty quilt and nicely straight. So I decided to do an edge to edge design over ...

added by Karin 1 year, 9 months ago. under bernina q20 , cloud nine by patricia e. ritter - urban elementz , edge to edge design , edge-to-edge quilting

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