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

Get to Know BERNINA Machine Embroidery

It’s time to get to know BERNINA embroidery machines! Join BERNINA Educator Kate Toney, as your guide to exploring embroidery with BERNINA. In this beginner’s course, we will explore styles of embroidery, stabilizers, threads, and most importantly BERNINA embroidery machines. While learning a number of embroidery techniques, Kate will open doors of inspiration to many unique ways embroidery can be used and help you take home finished projects to show off your new embroidery skills. $349

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Get to Know Your BERNINA L 890

Spend two days immersed in the BERNINA L 890 and discover the amazing features, so you know how to use them when creating your projects. You’ll cover overlocking on knits and wovens, using your overlocker for quilting, as well as coverstitch and chainstitching. You’ll learn all the special features of these wonderful machines. $399

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Overlocker Feet 101

Join BERNINA Educator Mary Beck as she inspires and guides you to unlock the possibility of your L 8 Series overlocker. Using specialty feet, your overlocker can achieve many more techniques. From blindstitch to zippers and everything in between. Mary will teach you tips and tricks to use the variety of overlocker feet in a variety of applications. You’ll walk away with the confidence to expand your overlocker horizons using our specialty feet from A to Z. $399

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Above & Beyond Rulerwork

Join BERNINA Ambassador Carolina Asmussen during this two day ruler work retreat at the fabulous Q Series longarm frame classroom in the BERNINA Creative Center. In this course you will work with panels and the new BERNINA Essential quilting rulers kit. You will discover the unique advantages of the BERNINA Stitch Regulator to optimize your work while basting, freemotion quilting and quilting with rulers. The goal is to explore much more than basic shapes and learn creative new designs that can be applied to any quilt. Topics learned include BERNINA Stitch Regulator, quilting with rulers, density and texture and transition between designs in a productive way. $449

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Exploring Your BERNINA Q Series

Work with BERNINA Educators in an extensive three-day retreat at the BERNINA Creative Center on the Q Series with Frame. In this retreat you will learn the ins and outs of your Q Series machine. We'll start with the basics of loading a quilt properly on the frame and then dive into all of the icons on your sewhead screen. We'll also explore all of the possible quilting techniques you have at your disposal. You'll leave feeling comfortable and confident with your Q Series Machine on the Frame! $799

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From Beginning to End - Digitizing Embroidery Designs

Experience the process of digitizing designs in the software and then embroidering your creations. Learn what to look for before you send a design to the machine and then after stitching the designs, analyze how to make improvements in the designs. Make your corrections; then go through the stitching process again to finalize the design. We will create designs from both line drawings and artwork. Prerequisite:  You should know the basics of digitizing before taking this hands-on class. $349

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