Bernina Sewing Machine User Manual
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Holiday embroidery turns a plain sheer blouse into
something special. On sheer fabrics, it is a good
idea to reduce the density of the design. This is
easily done in the BERNINA Embroidery Software.
Open, airy, lightly-digitized are best; outline designs
are also good.
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Embroidered
Holiday Blouse
Created by Debbi Lashbrook
Supplies
Sewing Equipment & Accessories
• BERNINA Embroidery Software
• BERNINA Sewing & Embroidery System
• Mega Hoop
• Large Oval Hoop
• Flat Bed Scanner
Embroidery Designs
• OESD’s Holiday Linens 2 Collection #12215,
• Designs HG045 and HG051
Notions & Blouse
• Isacord Embroidery Thread in desired colors
• AquaMesh Plus Wash-Away Stabilizer
• Organ Embroidery needle, size 65 or 70 Sharp
• EZ Glitzer and crystals
• Purchased Sheer Blouse
Preparing the Placket Design
Open the BERNINA Embroidery Software.
Right click on the Show Hoop icon and choose the
artista 400 x 150 Mega Hoop; make sure Display
Hoop and Show Grid are activated.
Select the Open Object tool and a Single outline.
Draw a placement line down the center of the Mega
hoop outline. This will be used to place the design
evenly along the placket edge.
Select File > Insert Design and choose HG045. Click
the Rotate icon two times.
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Move the holly design
to the left of the placement line the desired
distance.
Press M on the keyboard and measure
the length of the holly
design.
Measure the finished
length of the blouse
along the placket in millimeters.
Divide the length of the blouse by the length of the
holly design to find out how many repeats it will take
to stitch along the placket. Make any adjustments
necessary to the size of the design so that it fits your
placket length.
Select and Ungroup the design.
Select the red berries in the Color Film and left click
on the Object Properties icon. Highlight the manual
Satin Spacing value and change it to 0.55.
Hold the Control key on the keyboard and select all
Select everything except the placement line and
Group the design.
Select the design, then right click and drag the
design to make a Quick Clone of the holly.
Select both designs and click on the Align Left icon.
Save the design as Holiday Blouse.
Preparing the Collar Design
Scan the left collar with a flat bed scanner and save
the file on your computer.
Select Picture View (v5) or Art Canvas (v6) > Load
Picture, then open the scanned collar.
Switch to Design View (v5) or Embroidery Canvas
(v6) and select the Open Object tool; draw a placement line around the collar.
Reshape the line as necessary to outline the collar.
Select File > Insert Design; insert design HG051.
Ungroup the design.
Choose each of the berries of the light green leaves
and Delete them.
the light and dark leaves. Click on the Outline Tab
to change the fill to a single outline.
While the leaves are still selected, change the single
outline to a backstitch with a stitch length of 4.
Delete the light green leaves
Change the density of the remaining berries by
clicking on Object Properties and changing the
manual Satin Spacing to 0.55.
Change the outline of the darker leaves by selecting
the Outline tab, changing the fill to a single outline,
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