BERNINA Creative Center

BERNINA Creative Center

Learn, create and sew with the experts.

  • Courses for beginners to advanced sewist
  • Quilting and Longarm events
  • Software and embroidery classes
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Get to Know Your BERNINA 7 Series Machine

This class is designed for top-of-the-line BERNINA 7 Series owners new to their sewing machines and embroidery modules. On the sewing side, you will explore all types of stitches and editing features, including Combi-mode and Stitch Designer. On the embroidery side, you'll discover the built-in designs, different methods to position designs for precise placement and the correct way to hoop. By the end of class, not only will you truly know your machine, you’ll have a great machine cover to show off your beautiful stitches and embroidery designs! $799

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Quilting on a Frame with Amanda Murphy (January 2024)

Come spend three days quilting with BERNINA Expert and certified Art and Stitch instructor Amanda Murphy. The focus of the class will be using the many features of the Q-Matic, in tandem with rulerwork and free-motion, to produce beautiful custom quilting. We’ll be working on Amanda's two new Vibrancy Panels for Benartex fabric. The last afternoon will be spent exploring the basics of Art and Stitch - the incredible digitizing software included in the Q-Matic. $799 This is the only time Amanda will be teaching at the Creative Center in 2024.

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Intro to Digitizing (Online)

Continue to discover the amazing features and functions of your BERNINA Embroidery Software. In this class, you will explore automatic digitizing and will begin to learn about the manual digitizing tools of the software. You will fully explore the automatic methods of generating stitches from pictures by studying the tools in the Auto-Digitize Toolbox. $249 Prerequisites: Complete software guide class at the store or Introduction to Software online, either for Version 8 or 9.

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Presser Feet and Accessories 101

From the standard feet that come with your machine to specialty feet and attachments, BERNINA has a foot for everything. Using the most popular and versatile feet and accessories you will learn a variety of sewing techniques, including hems, applique, zippers and buttonholes. By the end of class, you will have a binder full of samples, notes and ideas! Quilters, garment sewers, and crafters will all benefit from this class. You’ll wish you took this class sooner! $399

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Designing in BERNINA Quilter Beyond the Basics (Online)

Continue to learn how to create quilts and quilted projects in BERNINA Quilter. Learn how to scan and tile fabrics and create non-traditional quilts. Prerequisites: Complete Designing in BERNINA Quilter Basics. $129

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Presser Feet and Accessories 102

This class is a continuation of Presser Feet and Accessories 101. You’ll expand your creativity with sewing techniques using specialty feet and accessories not covered in 101, such as couching, pintucks and machine binding. Also, you’ll learn unique sewing techniques you didn’t know were possible with standard presser feet. By the end of class, you will have a binder full of samples, notes and ideas! Quilters, garment sewers and crafters will all benefit from this class. Sign up today! $399

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Get to Know Your BERNINA L 890

Spend two days immersed in the BERNINA L 890 and discover all of its amazing features. Join BERNINA Educator, Mary Beck, as she guides you through the ins and outs of different stitches and how to work with a variety of fabrics. At the end of class, you will have a notebook full of notes and samples to refer to again and again. You will also make a project that will bring together everything you have learned. $399

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Overlocker Feet & Accessories

Join BERNINA Educator, Mary Beck, as she inspires and guides you to unlock the creative possibilities of your L 8 Series overlocker. Using specialty feet, your overlocker can achieve many techniques, from blindhems to zippers and everything in between. You will learn tips and tricks to use the feet in a variety of applications. At the end of class, you will take home a notebook full of notes and samples, as well as a project that brings it all together. $399

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Get Started with Machine Embroidery

It’s time to get confident with machine embroidery! Join BERNINA Educator, Kate Toney, as your guide to the world of machine embroidery. In this beginner’s course, we will explore styles of embroidery, stabilizers, threads, and BERNINA embroidery machines. Over two days, Kate will have you stitching out a number of embroidery sampler techniques and open doors of inspiration to many unique ways embroidery can be used. $399 This is the perfect class to start with if you are new to machine embroidery. Follow it up with Next Steps for BERNINA Machine Embroidery.

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Next Steps for BERNINA Machine Embroidery

Are you ready to better understand your BERNINA Embroidery machine? Join BERNINA Educator, Kate Toney, for two days of embroidering and learning the ins and outs of your BERNINA embroidery machine. This is the class for those who know the basics of machine embroidery (needles, threads, etc) and are now ready to dive into learning their BERNINA embroidery machine. $399

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Exploring Q-matic

Join BERNINA Educator, Donna Bularz in an extensive four-day retreat at the BERNINA Creative Center where you will explore the many functions and features of the BERNINA Q-matic Automated Quilting System. This class is designed for Q-matic owners and is a start-to-finish look at all of the tools and functions of this system. Basic Q Series sewhead understanding and threading is a prerequisite. $899 In this retreat you will experience using all of the Q-matic tools. You will do practice exercises as you explore using Q-matic tools on Day 1. Then you'll layout and stitch an E2E with a masked area using Art and Stitch on Day 2. Day 3 and 4 you will be custom quilting a pre-printed panel. Everyone should leave the retreat with two quilted projects ready for binding.

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Advanced Editing in Software (Online)

Join BERNINA Educator Debbi Lashbrook, as she helps you explore the tools found in the Edit Toolbox and Edit Menu of BERNINA Embroidery Software. Learn about Blackwork Run, Branching, Color Blending, and more! $129

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