🍂🧵 Free Embroidery Design: Borders That Mean Business 🧵🍂
Straight edges… but make them stand out. 👀✨ This striking border-inspired embroidery design is perfect for elevating jacket sleeves, trouser hems, bags, and table linen, adding clean lines and a bold, polished winter finish 🎯
Through the Inspiration magazines, we offer free downloads for selected sewing projects that you can use to decorate or customise your creations. All designs can be created easily with ease on BERNINA sewing machines featuring the embroidery function.
💾 Download and start creating via the link in our bio.
After a short visit at BERNINA RSA the B990 is on the road again. So BERNINA Makhado will be hosting the machine for the next few days. Go and meet this B990. #ABIGDAY
🍂✂️ You’ve Seen the bernette 35's offer… Now Watch It Deliver ✂️🍂
After yesterday’s feature, here’s the bernette 35 doing what it does best. 👀✨ This quick demo shows how its manual stitch control, adjustable stitch length and width, and steady fabric handling come together to create clean, delicate rolled hems with ease 🎯
No fuss. No overcomplication. Just beautifully finished edges, exactly when you need them.
🎥 Press play and see the precision for yourself.
Quick. Satisfying. Seriously impressive. 👀🧵
The BERNINA Clear Sole Embroidery Foot #39/#39C lets you see it all as you create, from clean satin stitches to playful appliqué and scalloped edges 🎯
This is where detail becomes design AND it's still 20% off this May!
🎥 Watch it. Want it. Make it yours.
A new textile artwork is slowly coming to life… ✨🧵
Over the next few weeks I will be sharing the creative process behind this piece using my Bernina 735, a variety of presser feet and beautiful built-in stitches.
Today I started building the background layers with fabric scraps for appliqué, textured stitching and crochet lace details. I used my No. 20 Open Embroidery Foot with a decorative stitch so I could clearly see my stitching while topstitching the lace.
For the circular fabric elements, I switched to my Open Embroidery Foot for free-motion stitching around the shapes.
This is what I love about textile mixed media art — layers, texture, stitching and creativity all coming together in unexpected ways.
I am incredibly excited about this artwork and cannot wait to share more techniques, ideas and inspiration with you as the piece develops. 💛
#Bernina #Bernina735 #BerninaRSA #TextileArt #MixedMediaArt #FreeMotionStitching
🌸🧵 Happy Mother’s Day to the Makers, Dreamers & Doers 🧵🌸
To the moms who mend, sew, create, and somehow still find time to do it all, today is for you 💛✨
For every hem you’ve fixed, every outfit you’ve stitched, every “I’ll just quickly make this” project that turned into a masterpiece… we see you 👀🪡
🌷 May your day be filled with rest, love, and maybe even a little uninterrupted sewing time (we can dream!)
Preparing for my upcoming Textile Sea Horse Class in Cape Town means stitching LOTS of little sea horse bodies… 14 of them to be exact.
Simple stitching? Not always so simple when you are trying to stitch around tiny curves and rounded shapes.
I used to do this with a normal presser foot, constantly stopping, turning and fighting with the fabric. Then I switched to my Bernina Open Embroidery Foot with the feed dogs dropped for free-motion stitching — and what a difference!
Suddenly stitching around those curved sea horse shapes became smooth, easy and so much faster. Even without a hoop, the fabric moves beautifully in every direction.
In less than 30 minutes I had all 14 sea horse bodies stitched, cut out and ready to be stuffed for class.
Sometimes creativity is not only about the artwork itself… it is also about finding smarter, easier and more creative ways to create. ✨
#Bernina #BerninaRSA #TextileArt #FreeMotionStitching #SeaHorseClass #CreativeProcess
🧥✨ Free Pattern for May: Top “Tessa” ✨🧥
If winter means layering, this is your starting point. Introducing the Top “Tessa”, a ribbed, form-fitting design that brings structure, comfort, and style into one effortlessly wearable piece 🍂
Inspired by a cohesive colour palette, it’s designed to pair beautifully with other wardrobe staples, while still giving you the freedom to customise colours to match your personal style 🎨
Whether you’re sewing for comfort or creating a full look, this is the kind of project that makes staying indoors feel productive and stylish.
💡 And the best part? It’s completely free throughout May 2026. Download your pattern and get started via the link in our bio.
🌸🧵 Free Mother’s Day Embroidery Design 🧵🌸
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, here’s a beautiful way to add a personal touch to your sewing projects 💛✨
This free embroidery design is perfect for celebrating the season, whether you’re creating something special for a mom, a grandmother, or simply making something meaningful for yourself. It’s delicate, timeless, and designed to bring a soft, heartfelt finish to your work 🌷
💕 A little sewing, a lot of love and just in time for Mother’s Day. Access the pattern via the link in our bio.
🍂🧵 See the 20% Off Favourite in Action 🧵🍂
You’ve seen May’s Accessory of the Month, now watch it do what it does best. 👀✨ In this tutorial, the BERNINA Clear Sole Embroidery Foot #39/#39C shows off its full visibility, smooth cording guidance, and precision when working on decorative stitches, appliqué, and scalloped edges 🎯
It’s all about control, clarity, and those clean, detailed finishes that elevate every winter project. 💰 And yes, it’s still 20% off for May only.
🎥 Watch the technique, then try it yourself.
💰 Enjoy 20% off our Accessory of the Month throughout May 2026!
Meet the BERNINA Clear Sole Embroidery Foot #39/#39C, designed for decorative stitching, satin stitches, appliqué, and off-the-edge scallop sewing with total precision.
Its transparent sole gives you full visibility as you sew, while the central guide hole feeds cording smoothly under the needle, so every line, curve, and detail lands exactly where it should 🎯
Compatible with both 5.5 mm and 9 mm machines, this is how you take your winter projects from “nice” to flawless. 🧶 Because staying in this winter should still mean levelling up.
👉 Take a closer look via the link in our bio.
What do you do when you need a whole collection of teacup doilies… but simply don’t have the time to crochet? ☕✨
You get creative 😉
Today I used my Bernina 735 sewing machine with the embroidery unit attached and explored the built-in embroidery designs to see if I could create my own machine-stitched doilies.
I used three layers of dissolvable stabilizer to keep everything in place while stitching. Once the design was done, I rinsed the stabilizer out and left it to dry… and just look at that delicate, lace-like result!
It will definitely work for what I have planned, although I think it needs one more rinse to soften it slightly.
I absolutely love how versatile my machine is — switching from sewing to embroidery opens up a whole new world of possibilities.
Creative solutions when time is short… and ideas are plenty ✨
Have you ever used your embroidery machine like this?
#Bernina735 #MachineEmbroidery #CreativeSolutions #TextileArt
