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Hey! It’s our 3rd anniversary and we are having a Super Awesome Spring Birthday Sale! Come in and save 10% on all BERNINA and Bernette sewing machines and sergers and 20% off on all notions, accessories, thread and FABRIC! We now carry fabric, and it is on sale too! The sale goes from now through… Read more »
It’s been a month since Lupine and I got back from our enlightening trip to Thailand and now that we are settled back into our routine, I thought it was time to share some pictures with all of you. As many of you know, we won this trip by being voted BERNINA’s Rookie of the… Read more »
October’s Foot of the Month is perfect for sewing with leather, coated cottons, oilcloth and other sticky fabrics–all 4 variations of Teflon Feet!
I have REALLY been needing to buy new kitchen towels. You feeling me? I didn’t want to spend a ton, so I went to the Swedish Superstore. I scoured through their ever-changing selection and didn’t find any that I liked. When I swept by their fabric department, I found some striped cotton fabric that I… Read more »
Take the pain out of mindless gathering and give the #16 Gathering Foot a try!
Recently I received a call at the shop from Mike Parish of BERNINA of America. He is the current acting President and when I realized that he was actual calling me, I nearly tipped over. When we spoke on the phone, he invited me to attend a dealer panel in Chicago over 2 days and… Read more »
About once every week or so, our wonderful UPS or FedEx peeps deliver a stack of sewing machines. They are always just here a little while, on their way to your house, but while we have them, we treat them extra special. Each and every sewing machine that comes through our door is “sewn in”… Read more »
I got a chance to play with this nifty little narrow guy at BERNINA University back in July. I think he could find a place in a lot of our teachers’s and customer’s hearts (Anna Joyce, I’m talking to you here). I’m totally getting one! What might seem complicated is really quite easy and when… Read more »
Differential Feed. You may have seen this term in your serger manual or printed on the face of your machine and wondered what it means. It’s one of the many features that distinguishes a sewing machine from a serger. First off, a serger has two individual sets of feed dogs unlike a sewing machine. They’re… Read more »
This morning over at Colette Patterns, Meredith offers great tips on buying a sewing machine. She is certainly one to know, as she has sewn on many, sees loads come into the shop, and teaches our Machine Owner classes at MD (those are the ones you get for free when you buy a new machine… Read more »