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Kinda Newbir Lurker - Hi & Help with 2nd Spool Question

Hi all,

I lurk a bit on this group, been quilting for about 6 years now - off and on. I also spend a lot of time doing needlework (almost any kind) and do some designing of Needlepoint Canvases. Hence - I'm strictly a machine quilter (relaxation and I already have tons of handwork always as WIPs). And I definitely don't lurk on RCTN - the sister cyber stitchers to this quilting crew.

Anyhow, I have a question, and feel like an idiot - but here goes. My Bernina - a QE 150 - which has been spending most of its time doing garment sewing this year (been taking pattern drafting, wearaable art and designing classes) has been working today on a whim. Decided to make a knitting needle holder - so been strip piecing a bunch of fabric from my latest artsy jacket (that's still a UFO). So, as I finally sat down to quilt the outer side, with some lovely variegated YLI - I realized that I've forgotten how to attach the extra (vertical) spool holder to my machine. How's that for a stupid question.

So, if anyone knows how/where to stick this thing on the Virtuosa 150 - I'd be truly greatful for the help. I tried the Bernina site - to no avail. And of course, since it's not quite midnight, and I'm in that sewing mood, well....

Oh - more about me - I live in Northern VA, recently moved out to Loudoun Cty (west of Dulles) though was in the McLean/Falls Church area for a long time. For the DC types - you'll understand when I say that I spend way too much time at G-Street. And, it's me, DH, and Puckster, the springer spaniel. Also, we do a lot of ice hockey stuff. And I'll try not to babble too much...I've much to learn in the quilting arts. Started quitling after my DM passed away, and her sister - who's been an avid quilter kept bugging me to do it, and honestly, I really had been lusting after playing with some fabric - so I got hooked. When she got a quilt in at AQS, Nashville, went with her, had a blast, took great classes, etc. The rest is just an expansive tale of stash building to keep my other needlework stash company.

TIA for any help,

Ellice in VA

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ellice
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Welcome to our cyber quilting bee as some call it. I can't answer your question because all I have is a 12 year old pfaff and if it wasn't for the manual I couldn't do a thing with it. ;)

I am similar to you, although my mother didn't quit she weaved, and I never could learn that although I now wish I had. After she passed away I thought about quilting or at least trying, I mean 12 years ago I bought my machine for that purpose. LOL so I am working on it and having a hard time with it too. Not with the sewing but things have just been happening that keeps me from it. I had two Christmas presents that I had planned on making, oh well, maybe next year.

Again welcome,

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Jacqueline quilter at mounta

Ellice,

I can't help with regard to the spool holder, but welcome to the group! I just got back from a trip to Loudoun County - Leesburg to be exact - as DH's daughter and family live there. We didn't make it to G Street; instead, we took a drive in the country and found Webfabrics in Purcellville. I love the back roads of VA.

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Louise

Upper right of machine...to the back of the top. There is a hole that the prong of the thread holder goes in....then it just snaps in place. Bet this is clear as mud!! Not easy to explain, but easy to do once you figure it out.

Betty in WI

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Betty in Wi

Thanks for the welcome. We're just the east side of Leesburg - so I've been getting accustomed to heading into Leesburg, rather than the other direction. We use a nursery in Purcellville - and have gotten some furniture from a craftsman there... More to explore.

Thanks again - and I actually finally figured out my own stupid question - it's like a jigsaw puzzle to slip the piece in.

Ellice

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ellice

Thanks so much. I felt like an idiot staring at the piece and trying to remember where to slip it, snap it in! I should explain - even worse - by training I'm a mechanical engineer - and generally really good with spacial relations. So, thank you for the info - about the time I opened this I'd just figured it out. Glad to see that I didn't break anything.

ellice

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ellice

Welcome! Mine's a Pfaff, but I'm sure you'll solve the problem. If you get around to taking a photo of your needle holder -and the jacket- we'd like to peek! Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the midst of setting up my photo pages. And will do as soon as they're done.

My instructor from the wearable art class is making fun of me. I'm taking a "design your own - based on a sloper (basic fitted custom pattern)" class with her and she keeps asking about the jacket. I had a hard time firming up what I wanted to do on the back. The jacket is a basic, kind of asymetrical, short jacket, with a mandarin collar. It's in a deep purple hand-dye, and the artsy insert motifs are from the Laurel Birch "Mythical Horses" collection in the jewel tones (greens, golds, purple,). I've done some bias strips, the cuffs & collar, in a really nice hand-dye that is tiny little metallic squares - over a painted/mottled background of similar colors, and then found some curly-ques in the same colorway for some other stripping. There is a fussy-cut pocket on the front with a specific motif. The back has seuparate cutes of the smaller horses so they come up the bakce and then meet one from over the shoulder. But, I wasn't happy until I finally decided to go ahead and do a mountain/hills kind of background - raw edge curved piecing, then overlay the horses, and well, there's some organza sheer shoved in there to give some distance and layering effect. Then the instructor and some of the others from the wearable art club critiqued my layout - insisting on the organze, and tha I add ribbons - so I've found a bunch of ribbon which I think I'll do some edgine with. The lining is the current debate - I'm not quilting the jacket. I did have some oriental fabric to line it with - for fun - but now am thinking it won't slip on well, so am contemplating some novelty silk that I saw at G-Street - read this pretty cheap. Vs lining it with boring but nice rayon. It just took my mental block time to figure out to do the entire scen kind of thing with the piecing for under the horses on the back - but it's much better than just horses floating up the main garment fabric.

I'm sure I'll let you know when either my putting the artsy layout together goes awry or it's all done...

Ellice in No Va On 10/23/06 10:17 AM, "Roberta Zollner" wrote:

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ellice

I never had figured out where that 2nd vertical holder went - I simply put a drinking straw over the first one and stack the spools of thread. If you ever get a bit ambitious and want to use 3 threads at once, you might need to do that anyway. They do make triple SM needles but they are only for the very patient. And welcome. Polly

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polly esther

Welcome aboard, Ellice! ME-Judy

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Judy

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