
A 3-day
Martha Pullen Event!
My Mom, Sally and I took a 3-day seminar at the Bernina shop here in
Denver. Here Sally is pictured with our certified Martha Pullen
instructor, Beverly. Behind Beverly are some of the many beautiful
garments displayed around the store as samples of heirloom sewing. We had a fabulous time!
We met Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9am to
5pm. There were 18 women in the class. It was a little crowded in
the room, but we certainly had enough room to work. Most of the women
brought their own computerized machines. Then there was me: when I told
them I sew using a 25-year-old Kenmore (which I love and will never part
with), they said they would reserve a Bernina 180 for me. I could see
why! It is a wonderful machine!
On Thursday we learned several heirloom sewing
techniques, including sewing lace-to-lace, lace-to-entredeux,
entredeux-to-fabric, and gathered lace to fabric. On Friday we put those techniques
into practice making a blouse. We embroidered (on the
machine), made a lace-insertion diamond with a hemstitch around it, and made
pintucks using gimp around the diamond. We also did a lovely crocheted
edge (using a water-soluable stabalizer with pearle-cotton in the bobbin) and some
hemstitching around each sleeve, the neck edge and the lower hem.
This is the embroidery pattern I chose in
progress. And here are some of the others that were made.
The white-on-white butterfly was very elegant looking.
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