The Magic of Bernina

It’s that time of the month again: Your Bernina update time. We’ve got a lot of great news to share and specials to offer in this wrap-up of Bernina magic:

As many of you know (and for those who don’t), anyone who buys a machine through BerninaLady is entitled to one year of free classes. At one such class last month I had the delight to watch the look on one new owner’s face when she realized that her machine was capable of sewing something special. It’s you the owner that drives The Bernina Lady to carry on. These machines are really capable of sewing your creative wishes.

75th Sweet Holiday Celebration from Bernina

Purchase a sewing machine or serger and add a bonus “gift with purchase” which is free to you and get a really “sweet” deal!!!

Each sewing machine or serger purchased from The Bernina Lady between November 15th, 2007 and January 2nd, 2008 comes with special free gifts. Now is your time to purchase a machine and receive added accessories free.

Please contact The Bernina Lady directly regarding the Sweet Holiday Celebration as we are unable to post this information to our website.

The Bernina Lady will be at her HOST STORES on the following dates with her machines. Drop in for a demo. Come and see some of the special promotions.

Quilts by the Sea, Blockhouse, Nova Scotia: November 30th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Avonport Discount Fabrics, Avonport, Nova Scotia: December 4th 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

River Gallery, Glenwood, New Brunswick: December 8th (storm day December 9th). This is The Bernina Lady’s first visit to River Gallery. There is a free make and take as part of the Bernina Demonstrations. Please contact Sande Gunning directly to register for the free make and take at (506) 468-9004 or toll free at 1-877-468-9004. For those of you who do not wish to join us in the make and take but would still like time to discuss Bernina products please drop in between 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and 3:30 -5:30 p.m. on December 8th.

The Cotton Patch, Bedford, Nova Scotia: December 13th 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Harbour Quilt Company, Antigonish, Nova Scotia: December 15th 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Put a Bernina under your tree for Christmas. Put your Bernina Christmas wish list on your fridge for your himself and ask him to contact The Bernina Lady. She will take care of the rest.

Don’t forget that with each machine purchased you will receive your free gifts, one year of free classes and a 15% discount on all machine accessories purchased for a year.

The Bernina Lady is now a Hoop It All Dealer. Please visit our website to read about the hoop it all or www.hoopitall.com.

Thank you to all of you that have signed up to receive updates and Newsletters directly from The Bernina Lady website (www.berninalady.com). For those of you that haven’t signed up yet, if you wish to continue to receive information from The Bernina Lady please sign up at the website. Thanks.

In closing this month, The Bernina Lady again thanks you for all of your support and good wishes. It is because of you that The Bernina Lady is here. Hope to catch up with you in one of our Host locations before Christmas.

Remember: NOTHING SEWS LIKE A BERNINA. NOTHING.

Hoop it All With Bernina Lady

The Bernina Lady is please to announce that we are now a Hoop It All Dealer. Why did The Bernina Lady become a Hoop It All Dealer? The hoop it all takes all the work out of hooping. One hooping will do a large design. Less hooping time means more sewing time.
Hoop It All Products were developed in Phoenix, Arizona and there are products and hoops made to fit all major brand name machines.

What are they? Hoop It Alls are specialty hoops, brackets and tables that will fit on our sewing machines and allow us to embroider all sorts of different sizes of designs and shapes.

Probably the best known Hoop it All is made for embroidering on baseball caps. There are hoops available for sewing on special materials such as velvets. These hoops allow us hoop particularly large pieces of fabrics.

In most instances, you would hoop your fabric only once on the hoop it all and then rotate the hoop as you sew your design on your block. Multiple hoping is not necessary in many cases, depending on the size of your design.

The hoops and deluxe tables are ordered for your particular model of machine. That is, an Aurora deluxe table and hoop will not fit an Artista machine. Similarly an Artista machine needs an Artista table and hoops.

How do you know which one to Order?

Start with the model of your machine (Artista, Aurora, Deco), then your model number (Artista 730/200, 640, 185/180, 170, 630, 165, Aurora 430/440, Deco 650/600/500).

Decide what you most want to embroider: large designs, hats, quilt squares.

The best way to order your first Hoop It Alls is in a “combo pack”. A “combo pack” includes the deluxe 3 part table (your machine and module sit on a base included in the 3 parts and then there is a “front” and “back” table that attaches to the base. This allows for support for these large hoops. You would also order the hoop you wished in this “combo”. As an example, the most popular hoop that I can see the most of us using is a Quilter’s Square Double Wide. This is a square hoop measuring 14.25 x 14.25” (it has an embroidery field of 11 7/8” square – perfect for a quilt block 12 1/2”. The Quilter’s Square Double wide will also come with a mounting bracket to attach to the hoop that attaches to your machine module.

As you may want to embroider larger designs for a quilt block as in the Latte Quilt, Aquamarine Ambience, Pictogram Quilt by Judy Nowak you will probably want a mega bracket as well as this will allow us to work with mega hoop designs.

Once you have your deluxe 3 part table then you only need to order additional frames. Additional frames might include a super double wide (14.25 x 23) or a Big hat frame or a Super Giant Long (8.5 x 23). Your deluxe 3 part table allows you to use all of these additional frames. You only need to order the new frame sizes as you need them.

The Bernina Lady is also able to order hoops for other brands of machines, not just Bernina.

Do I really need a Hoop It All? No, as you have available to you 4 different sizes Bernina hoops. But the beauty of Hoop It All is it allows you to sew large designs on larger pieces of fabric without multiple hoopings.

The Bernina Lady is also able to order rolls of stabilizer for the hoop it alls. Much of the stabilizer is pressure sensitive so you simply hoop the stabilizer and then press your fabric onto the pressure sensitive material. There are water soluble stabilizers, tear away stabilizers and others available. You order the stabilizer by the size of your hoop.

Please contact Jeanne if you would like to order a Hoop It All for yourself. For more info, you can check out their website at www.hoopitall.com or see photos of work done with this product here.