Thank you for taking part in our "soft" opening! What a great time we have had already. Thank you. We are so happy to have started, together with you on our Wilmington adventure.
Our Grand Opening will be in early 2021 -- depending upon, of course, when we can safely have (COVID-19....) groups in the store at one time. During the Soft Opening and the limitations necessarily and importantly in place we will work together, with you, to keep each other as safe as possible while also growing as a "store" and assisting you with your quilting, embroidery, machine projects and challenges. An exciting time: That, is for certain.
On we go!
Sona and all of the BWOSWilmington staff
Fabric, Yes - Project Ideas - Yes -
and More, For Sure! Stop by and show us YOUR Projects when you have a chance to do so.
Psst....
Machine Sale in-store Availability and Prices will never be better than NOW. Machine availability is a challenge - however, we continue to have great machines for you to try; call or eMail us with a request for a sit-together time at the store.
Phone: 910 769-2775
eMail:
TryBeforeYouBuy at Bernina World of Sewing Wilmington dotcom
Bernina World of Sewing Wilmington -
"Customer's Corner"
As I put the following into place I thought the term "Customer's Corner" seemed appropriate. The matters shown below are aimed for use by YOU (our customers). The topics will, of course, assist us in following what your projects have been (via the Gallery), are planned, in progress and are "sharing of information/challenges" (via the BLOG).
Browse, below, and if you choose to participate: Terrific.
Webmaster
Customer "Private" BLOG
Click here or above -
To Participate In your
Wilmington Customer BLOG
Interested in Quilt Along BOM 2021?
Although formal invitation to participate in Quilt Along 2021 BOM has not started yet, if you are interested in the project at this time, please go to:
Signup for More Information about Quilt Along BOM 2021
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At this time, there are 450+ bolts for you to see at the store. More will be added, of course, as the days/week go by.
A few of the most recent fabrics that we have added to the Wilmington store and to the online site include:
(Click on the following to see some of the selections in a large-sized image.
To see all the fabrics, go to our online site using site navigation at the top of this page).
A few kits have now arrived!
Fabrics arrived in August.
Sonja has started making the quilt and she is a Jane Austen and this-collection's fabric fan! She and a couple of other quilters are also using selected fabrics from the Jane Austen fabric collection for making quilts selected from the book: "QUILTS in AMERICA by Kaffe Fasset, The Taunton Press ("Designs inspired by Vintage Quilts from the American Museum in Britain). Stay tuned if you are interested - and, if you have any comments/questions: Just eMail:
send mail to: JaneAustenAtHome at Bernina World of Sewing dotcom or catch Sonja at the Raleigh store when you are both there.
Progress Report/Info Regarding The QUILTS in AMERICA by Kaffe Fasset Book Project
Selected Machines On-Site Now in Wilmington
We look forward to working with you in finding a BERNINA or bernette machine that fits your needs/projects. Just a small selection of machines that are in-store are shown below. Of course you may order/purchase ANY BERNINA or bernette machines and accessories at our Wilmington store.
Bernina 7 Series - 770QE
Full 13-inch extended freearm including ten inches of space to the right of the needle.
To arrange for an in-store sew/try session on BERNINA or bernette please call the store: (910) 769-2775 to ensure that the machine type and accessories you are looking for are set up for your session or send an eMail (please include your phone number) to:
send mail to: WilmingtonSewTry at Bernina World of Sewing Wilmington dotcom
In preparation-of a sew/try session, perhaps browse/fill in the following Webform:
Special Events, Sales and More
Stay tuned for information - However: Always know that the store has the LATEST information. Stop by!
Special Event
Free event:
Ruler Work for Beginners
Tuesday, March 16th
1:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Get excited to quilt with templates at home and learn the Basics and Feathers galore in this 2-hour online class with Donna McCauley, a Westalee Design Educator.
Win Prizes, Get Event Special Pricing and Learn!!!
I know many of you Wilmington customers are embroidery fans/experts. I will be curious how many of you are BERNINA Toolbox users. In any case - Are you headed down the path - or,
You are thinking about heading down the path - or:
You have been down the path in the past and did not continue the path for some reason - Of:
Embroidery Software?
Let's try the BERNINA Toolbox soon. Priced right, with a free 30-day trial available: Now.
What The Example Worked With - If interested-in, See Pointer-to, below.
For this example, I digitized one design, using three approaches:
Digitize the original 10"-wide design.
Modify the original 10"-wide design to be a 2 1/2" wide design - and, digitize the 2 1/2"-wide design.
"Break" the 2 1/2"-wide design into three separate parts (in my case: "Top", "Middle" and "Bottom" non-text parts of the design and, then, digitize those three parts.
Work firstly with the design in full-size as was in the original JPG. Use Toolbox to add some text to the design and to prepare the embroidery design to be "easily" (stitch color order, etc.) stitched from a user's point of view.
Determine a good approach for making the large-size design 75% smaller. Again, use Toolbox, this time involving use of Toolbox text support; investigating individual letter separation, "font"/alphabet, etc.
Finally, again using Toolbox support, make the design acceptable for embroidering onto a shirt.
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