{"id":1501,"date":"2010-09-24T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/it-really-was-fun\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:47:05","slug":"it-really-was-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/it-really-was-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"It really *was* fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/embroidered-pillow.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/embroidered-pillow-300x225.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m back from the Clean &amp; Sew I mentioned yesterday, and it was lots of fun! It was a small class, and we each had a new Bernina 830 to use. Wow! What a machine! It&#8217;s not coming home with me (though I&#8217;d love that extra harp space for quilting <g>), but I&#8217;m <i>so<\/i> impressed with its capabilities. We had a crash course on some machine embroidery techniques and came away with a pillow, complete except for adding the buttons that close the flap in the back and which I&#8217;ve since sewn on.&nbsp;<\/g><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The only machine embroidery I&#8217;ve ever done before today was free motion, so this was very different. We used some built-in decorative stitches, put them together into a &#8220;stitch recipe&#8221; (combination) for the design at the top right. Then we took a built-in embroidery motif and added a monogram for the bottom section. To form the feathers on the left, we used a built-in motif from a set designed Diane Gaudynski. Then we even used embroidery to make buttonholes for the back!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The quilt shop provided all of the materials, including the pillow form to put inside the piece we made, and while we were sewing\/embroidering my own wonderful Bernina 630 was getting a &#8220;spa treatment&#8221;. What a fun way to spend a day! \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from the Clean &amp; Sew I mentioned yesterday, and it was lots of fun! It was a small class, and we each had a new Bernina 830 to use. Wow! What a machine! It&#8217;s not coming home with me (though I&#8217;d love that extra harp space for quilting ), but I&#8217;m so impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301],"tags":[202,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-1501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-embroidery","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/embroidered-pillow.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-od","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5145,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/20\/first-embroidery-on-new-machine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1501,"position":0},"title":"First embroidery on new machine","author":"Sandy","date":"September 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"After making all of those stitch samples and doing a bit of other stitching on my new Bernina 790Pro, I figured I probably ought to test out the machine embroidery, too. 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