Berta's Wedding Quilt ~ A Labor of Love

 

 



Berta's Beautiful Wedding Quilt



 

My friend Berta made the gorgeous white silk dupioni wedding quilt for her little sister.  She gave me permission to post the pictures I took of it on my blog for you see.   I'm sorry that I didn't take more pictures of this spectacular quilt.   Double click on each picture to enlarge it for better viewing. 

Berta wrote out her instructions of how she made her quilt using her Bernina Embroidery V6 Software and her 830 machine.



Bride, Bridesmaids and Flower girls

1.  I took the photos into Microsoft Works Word Processor and made each the size I wanted.

2.  I then printed the photos onto "Printed Treasurer" (used my Joann's 40% coupon) the sew on version not the iron on.

I would like to add that the picture of the bridesmaids helping dress the bride reminded me of Disney's Cinderella.   That is why I placed the blue birds and ribbons on that picture.

Bride and Berta

3. Trimmed each photo leaving a 1/4 inch of white border. 

4. Sewed the prepared Dupioni to each side of the photo using the white 1/4 inch border as my guide.  Then I sewed a strip of the Dupioni across the top  and the bottom.  I made this large enough to fit in the Jumbo hoop and later cut it down to a 12 inch block.                       
 

5.  In the Software I loaded the photo into Art Canvas and made it the size I wanted.

Bride and Flower girls

6.  Took in over into the Embroidery Canvas side.
 

7.  Digitized a line around the photo--Single outline stitch which I took into Object Properties and made the stitch length 10 for a basting stitch.

Bride and Groom

8.  Used my MM ruler and measured my picture in the sewn Dupioni block to be sure my basting stitch and picture in the software were perfect size.   Adjusted if necessary.   Printed a template and cut out the center of the basting stitches to be sure it fit perfectly around the actual picture in the block.

9.  This let me see where the floral designs etc would fall around the picture.  When done I saved all but the picture.

The Wedding Cake

I wanted some of the design to barely fall on the pictures to somewhat disguise the seams.   I then inserted in the designs--Hatched In Africa Heirloom Daisy - and placed them sometimes deleting portions  or  mirror imaging  or adding pieces etc. until I liked what I saw.   Thus framing the pictures. 



Signing the marriage license
pictures cropped, turned and joined together

I  did not stitch out the basting stitches around the pictures but brought them into the sewing machine --I have the Bernina 830 with the virtual positioning but you could do the same thing by printing out a template and see where  the corners hit. I then skipped the first stitching sequence.
 

These were my little sisters original wedding pictures and it was for her 55th anniversary.  I had fun cropping out her Orchid on the bible from one of the bride and groom pictures and enlarged it to the size of the other pictures.   There were 2 pictures of them signing the marriage license.  Cropped each picture and turned them so that they would face each other and brought them into Microsoft Works Word and combined into one picture.

Roberta B.



Thanks Berta for sharing your quilt and instructions.  This quilt was also featured in the August 2012 Software Sampler.   You can see a clip below from Software Sampler.

 

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Show 'n Tell ~ February 2012

These are pictures from the Bernina Software Sampler and Embroidery Club that I teach at Bernina Northwest in Seattle.

Linda B.

Linda B. made this lovely quilt top.   My camera ran out of battery's power and grrrrr - the other batteries I had with me were also dead - so I missed getting a picture of her other quilt top.  And Ingrid I missed getting your pretty cuddle quilt, pillow and snap purse.  I'm sorry - bring again and I get pictures.

Pat H. Paper Pieced Quilt

Pat H. Fairy Blocks

Pat H. made the stunning paper pieced quilt on the left.  It is really beautiful.  She also made the pretty quilt on the right with the Fairy Blocks.

Virginia S. made  Diamond String

Virginia S. look at her corners

Virginia S. made the quilt on the right with the String quilting blocks cut into diamond shapes.  L love it.  And she made the quilt on the right with different corners.  Look at it and you will see squared and rounded corners.  It is neat looking.

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Show and Tell ~ January 2012

These are pictures from the Bernina Software Sampler and Embroidery Club that I teach at Bernina Northwest in Seattle. 



Marilyn B. made this cute baby quilt  She digitized the applique and the quilting designs used on the plain blocks.





Marilyn also made these cute burp cloths.

Virginia S. made her Western Washington Shop Hop Quilt 2011 on the left. 

Pat H. made her Western Washington Shop Hop Quilt 2011 on the right.  Virginia and Pat visited almost all the quilt shops in three days. 

Pat H. made this quilt.

Mary G. made these pretty guest towels.

Kathy H. has this quilt top done. It is Mexican Party from a Kaffe Fassett pattern.  It was made using his fabric line.  Very pretty.

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Show and Tell - November

These are pictures from the Bernina Software Club that I teach at Bernina Northwest in Seattle.

Pat H. made these two quilts.   The quilt on the left is Western Washington Shop Hop 2010.  Pat makes all of her "shop hop" quilts.  The quilt on the right is a baby quilt that Pat makes for every new baby in her church.  It is called Tool Box.











Maxine E. made these quilts.  The quilt on the left is a very cute Hennietta Whiskers from Bunny Hill designs.  The Quilt on the right is a pretty Christmas quilt "Snow Kissed Stars" from McCalls Quilting Nov/Dec 2011 issue.

 Maxine finished her Chloe Quilt.  Isn't it beautiful?  She made pillowcases using the Chloe embroidery designs.

 Maxine digitized the embroidery designs for these towels.  They are going to be gifts.  The light colored towels look beautiful with embossed monogram embroidery.









Dorothy T. is starting to work on the Black and White Dreams quilt from Jenny Haskins Galleria of Machine Artistry and Quilting.  This  is block #1 - Wicker Basket #3.  She is adapting the blocks to use with her artista 730E.  Just Beautiful! 







Dorthy is making OESD's 2011 Lace Ornaments - Collection #2

No Software/Embroidery Club in December so you will have to wait until next year to see more Show and Tell.