Dog Named Banjo » sewing machines

Here’s a small project that uses the amazing Bernina Stitch Regulator (BSR).  It’s a tiny protoquilt:  something a little bigger than a coaster, much, much smaller than a regular quilt, an...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2015/03/18/tiny-protoquilt/

A step-by-step guide to cleaning your Bernina sewing machine. Includes way too many photos and makes it look harder than it really is - but it's really quite easy and you should learn how to do i...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2011/12/31/bernina-440qe-cleaning-and-oiling-your-machine/

This picture shows about how the craft room makeover is going so far. Moving everything out of the room sucked, and now it’s laying all about the house in piles.  The prep stage had some chaos...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2009/04/21/craft-room-makeover-part-2-the-prep-stage/

Buttonholes seem to be one of the most scoured and studied aspects of a sewing machine when seasoned pros decide to get a new machine. Is the stitch quality good?  Are they easy to make?  Are t...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2009/01/05/bernina-440-qe-button-hole-tutorial/

See Part 1 of this series here: Bernina Aurora 440 QE: Free-motion Quilting – Part 1 of 2:  Free-motion quilting basics without the BSR. So yeah, I know… it’s taken me forEVER to finally p...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/08/15/bernina-aurora-440-qe-free-motion-quilting-part-2-of-2-the-bsr/

Update:  For part two of this series, go here: Bernina Aurora 440 QE:  Free-motion Quilting – Part 2 of 2 – The BSR! I’ve been sewing for a bunch of years, but have always admired from af...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/08/03/bernina-aurora-440-qe-free-motion-quilting-part-1-of-2/

OK, so for you non-sewers out there reading this blog, it may sound absolutely insane that I wanted to initially start out this post with: “Dear walking foot, where have you been all my life?â€...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/07/23/bernina-440-qe-walking-foot/

So I’ve been playing around with the different stitches on the machine.  Can you tell? One of the very first things I decided to do was sew a sample of each of the 180 stitches it is capable o...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/07/04/68/

The box.  Brown, cardboard, heavy. The first thing you see when you pop it open:  Instruction manuals, brochures, the knee lifter, a DVD (that I still haven’t watched) and various other warra...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/06/22/bernina-aurora-440qe-whats-in-the-box/

After much searching over a series of months, models, and dealers, I have finally made a sewing machine decision. And after a love-at-first-use test drive, I brought it home today: When unpacked,...

http://www.gdmig-dognamedbanjo.com/2008/06/20/lookit-what-i-got/