Grand Opening Extravaganza! March 30, 2009

Special Deals from Natalie’s Sewing Machine Sales and Service Two days only, April 3rd and 4th

Natalies is having a “GRAND OPENING” April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. There will be refresments and if the weather is good we will have a barbeque.
There will be many door prizes. I donated an embroidery design pack worth about $1500 also another smaller one. There will be many specials on machines as well as fabric.
We will post more information as we have it.

Ron

Many of the new Bernina Quilt Frame owners have questions on loading it as the instructions fall short. I have taken it upon myself to put something together that fill help you until Bernina puts one out. Bernina will have something soon.
1) The bottom rail is for batting and it doesn’t matter which direction it comes off that rail as I leave the ratchet turned off.
2) The next rail is for the top of your quilt and the quilt should come off the front of the rail and I also leave the ratchet off on that one (optional)as friction on the top front rail is usually enought and gives you the chance to reposition it.
3) The top rail is for the backing of the quilt and it does matter how it goes and it needs to come off the top going toward the roll under the machine (upside down of course).
4) The batting lies on top of that and the top lies on top of the batting to form a sandwich.
5) Attach Velcro to the front and back rails and then attach leaders to both of them with the short leader going to the back rail. This gets the short leader because you want to keep this roll as small as possible. Use small flat pins when pinning it to the leader, no heads on the pins!
6) All three them go to the last roll and go under the roll and up from behind. These will get pinned to a short leader that is held down by Velcro. Once loaded engage the ratchets of the front and back rail.
7) If the don’t ratchet the correct way then swap them to the other side which will reverse the way they ratchet.
8) These two rolls ratchet away from each other the back roll to the back and the front roll to the front therefore pulling the fabric tight.
9) The back roll now wants to be just sitting on the machine with no drag. If it is too high the fabric will flag. If it is too low it will cause the machine to move hard.
10) As the roll under the machine gets bigger then you must raise that roll.

See diagram at the bottom of this post.

Another tip is when you run out of space, leave the needle in your quilt and index the fabric back and because the Bernina Quilt frame is so smooth the machine will travel with the fabric and you will be able to start exactly where you left off.

we also have a class coming up in April on the 23rd at 9:30 am for a small fee but you must sign up and pay ahead of time as this class will fill up.

Have Fun
Ron Blake
Cote Brothers Sewing Machines