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Decorative Stitching Adventures using the BERNINA 350PEWhen I got the BERNINA 350 Patchwork Edition out of the box, the very first thing I did was try out the decorative stitches. They immediately reminded me of the stitches in a crazy quilt, which I've always admired, so I decided to try it out. I have a lot of black, white, and gray fabrics. I knew they would make a good background for my experiment so I stitched up a random crazy quilt block onto a piece of white cotton fabric that measured 14 by 16 inches.
The BERNINA's stitch pattern reference card had a LOT of stitches I wanted to try. Luckily, I had a lot of seams that needed embellishment!
I loaded some bright red thread into the machine, selected the stitch number I wanted to play with and started sewing. Here's what the first pass looked like. Delightful!
Each pattern was more fun than the last!
Here it is finished, a successful experiment. Now I have a lovely piece of crazy quilted fabric, what shall I do with it? I've been meaning to make one of those dish drying mats, so that's the plan.
I rounded off the corners.
Then I pinned the decorated side onto a white terrycloth towel and sewed around the edges with a 1/4 inch seam. I made sure to leave a few inches open along one of the sides so it could be turned rightside out. After trimming away the excess terrycloth, I turned it rightside out and handstitched the opening shut.
Clipped the corners...
And done!
I loved this project. It was fun to play with the different stitches and I'm so happy with the functional finished product!
