The 2017 Row by Row Experience theme is Row by Row is On The Go, and our Row is headed to space. “From the Desert to the Stars” is Marsha’s design, and it gives a tip of the hat to White Sands Missile Range and NASA. The green chile cowboy’s got his lasso around a…
Category: Quilting
One More Ladder to Climb
Our final block in our Block of the Month series is Jacob’s Ladder. Another nine-patch, composed of squares, four-patch squares, and half-square triangles, the variations you can create through color choice and block placement are amazing and endless! Jacob’s Ladder has been popular since the late 1800’s. It also goes by the names Road to…
What? Has it Been a Year Already?
On March 31, 2016, we launched our Block of the Month series with the Ohio Star block (shown in photo above), and we’ve never looked back! Marsha had lots of fun choosing fabrics for each month’s block, and honed her pattern-making skills in creating step-by-step instructions. Carla enjoyed researching the history of each block, and…
Binding It All Together
The third and final “How much?” question we hear a lot is for binding.
On The Fence
One of the simplest blocks you can learn as a quilter, the Rail Fence is made from three or more pieced strips . Don’t let that simplicity fool you, though: this straightforward block creates varied and unexpectedly beautiful quilts. Rail Fence blocks can be put together to create the Roman Square, Fine Woven or Basket…
The Bernina Babes Have Got Your Back!
We’re here for you, especially when it comes to those tricky quilt questions!
Love & Marriage
Valentine’s Day: when our thoughts turn to love, chocolate, flowers, and quilts. Before we get to the quilt part, a little background on St. Valentine. There is more than one early saint called Valentine, but the popular story about this particular St. Valentine is that he performed marriages in secret for Roman soldiers who had been…
Puzzle It Out
Get your gear together, quilters, because we’re sending you to the mountain tops. The next entry in our Block of the Month is the Rocky Mountain Puzzle block. This block has got a lot of action going on! All those points give create lot of movement. Needless to say, two very busy fabrics put together…
Everything You Wanted to Know About Borders, But Were Afraid to Ask!
The quilting questions we hear most often here at Bernina have to do with “How much…?”
On the H Block of Quilt Street
The H Block is this month’s entry in our Block of the Month series. The H Block is easy for beginning quilters, but it has the kind of fun movement you find in designs using more advanced techniques. There’s not much history out there about the H Block, but you can see that it’s based off of…
Gifts Galore
“I just don’t know what to get!” We hear this cry for help a lot. You need a gift for your mom or sister, for someone in your bee, for someone who’s new to sewing, or even someone who’s sewn for years and has a sewing room stuffed full of notions and fabric. Never fear-the Bernina…
Among the Pines
Our Block of the Month for November is the Pine Tree Block. The history of different quilt blocks and patterns is something we love to explore, but this month we’re going to talk about a personal history. When it comes to quilting, that’s the real heart and soul of it: patterns and techniques and knowledge…
Your Needle & Me 