{"id":4323,"date":"2020-10-14T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:55:24","slug":"dressed-up-bernina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/dressed-up-bernina\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressed up Bernina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bernina<\/a>Some years ago, I found a way to have a custom-made skin put onto my Bernina 630. I loved it, and you may be able to see why. Unfortunately, when I bought my 790+ with all of its fantastic features, two things happened. First, the 790+ couldn’t have a similar skin, since that service no longer exists. Drat. The second thing is that I only have space for one sewing machine in our small home, so I ended up selling the 630 with its skin. <sniffle> I still haven’t been able to bring myself to get rid of the photo of this machine and its skin on the front page of this blog!<\/p>\n

\"Bernina<\/a>A few weeks ago, another Bernina owner pointed me to a source on Etsy<\/a> for skins for my 790+, though they aren’t as customizable as the one I used to have. Still, I couldn’t resist, and my 790+ is now jazzed up and looking spiffy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some years ago, I found a way to have a custom-made skin put onto my Bernina 630. I loved it, and you may be able to see why. Unfortunately, when I bought my 790+ with all of its fantastic features, two things happened. First, the 790+ couldn’t have a similar skin, since that service no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4324,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[202],"class_list":{"0":"post-4323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bernina","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1222.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-17J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1959,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/new-machine\/","url_meta":{"origin":4323,"position":0},"title":"New Machine!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As a quilter, I've been drooling over sewing machines with a larger harp space. 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