When I got to the machine, and started thinking about it, though, it occurred to me that maybe the Bernina (her name is Gertrude Alice) could do buttonholes more easily than I was used to. So I took the time to learn how to do buttonholes with my nifty automatic buttonhole foot.
It was like magic! I measured the button, then sewed the first side of the buttonhole. Then I pressed the reverse button, and the machine stitched the rest of the buttonhole for me!
THEN I learned that I only needed to press the "Add to memory" button, and it would be ready to go at that exact size. Well that also worked perfectly, and my 20 (didn't need the last 10) buttonholes just flew onto the fabric. I was very impressed.
Anyway, that story has nothing to do with the picture. Early last spring, I decided to stitch out every one of the 181 stitches the QE440 has. I chose to do it on both black and white, and I chose to test out several different embroidery threads.
Daughter is holding the full thing, all 2 meters of it (she is over 175 cm herself), and here are some closeups as well. I've hung the finished piece up in my sewing room so I always have a reference to choose stitches.
2 comments:
This is really a smart idea. The stitch stitched out looks different to me than it does on the stitch card.
Smart idea to use both white and black fabrics to showcase the stitches.
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