What’s Under Your Needle? Part 6 – Quilting & Embroidery

April 15, 2020

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It’s been about two weeks since we began our stay-at-home adventure, and quilting and embroidery are popular activities. Some are quilting, some are doing embroidery, and some are doing both!

Sarah’s Sewing Room – Quilting for a Cause
Sarah is still busy working for the school, reading stories to students via Zoom, working on her Master’s degree and making quilts.

She has finished a lovely quilt she made to raise money for the Humane Society of Tampa Bay. Sarah loves to give back and is doing this in memory of her dog who passed a few months back.



Notice that she’s doing all the quilting in-the-hoop using her BERNINA 770 QE Tula Pink Edition. Sarah managed to incorporate quilting AND embroidery. Pretty amazing! She’s raised over $500 and plans to make another one very soon. Stay tuned…

Battenberg Lace In-the-Hoop
Carol Stricker recently shared, “Here are pictures of the fun thing that I have been working on – A Freestanding Battenberg Lace Necklace. I just really liked it and decided to give it a try.” Carol did some experimenting with thread and her Janome 15000 to get exactly what she wanted.

“The lace base is 40wt purple cotton thread – no problem. However, I really wanted to use the lavender holographic thread for the cord looking detail on top of the purple lace…you guessed it…constant thread breaks! But I was determined, and after trying several different things, I discovered the secret. Instead of using the spindle on the thread stand, which would make the thread twist, I just laid the thread in a bowl so the thread would pull off without twisting! BINGO No more problem.”

“The next issue was: “Now what do I have to pin the lace to so that I can rinse it out?” That’s right, it is a pool bodyboard. Worked perfectly!”

“I then let it dry in the sun, un-pinned it when dry, added hot fix AB crystals and a snap closure.”

“Next step – Try it on! I love it. So does Butter!”

Who’s ready to try this kind of project for themselves?

Kimberbell Mug Rugs

Beth Hoffman made some adorable mug rugs. They are from Kimberbell’s Holiday & Seasonal Mug Rugs, Volume 2 collection and we love them! Beth works magic with her BERNINA 790 Plus Anniversary Edition. She’s all ready for the big game. These too can be considered a quilting and embroidery project, sorta…