Advancing Artisans with Fiberella
Reacquaint, refresh and open up avenues to fully enJOY your BERNINA.
Designed to strengthen skills while sharpening feature & function expertise, these downloadable classes have creativity at heart. Techniques pair with sure-footed steps. Design basics support creative options for using the techniques. Working at your own pace, you'll stitch a mini project, something useful and beautiful to remind you of all you've just learned. Options to schedule a private coaching chat will also be available. You can do it!
Paula Scaffidi Teaching Bio follows the upcoming topics.
Images of mini projects you'll create arriving soon!
Purchase courses on-demand beginning May 2026
Already familiar with your machine? Great!
Let's take that training to the next level :-)
These creative topics reinforce
...while greatly expanding...
what you and your BERNINA can create.
Decorative Stitch Themes …linework, little motifs, stitch-mates & libraries
for BERNINA B 590, B 790 PRO & B 990 machine owners
It’s intriguing watching stitch patterns transform to conjure up an imaginary garden. With provided stitch edits and settings saved to personal folders, stitch out a little library. Video-clips highlight machine skills for beautiful quality. Creatively edit one pattern on your own, then learn Fiberella True & Easy-Calc. You can quickly achieve accurate stitch-out lengths in-the-cloth. Color keys unlock the mystery of color behavior while machine set-up makes thread changes quick. A design layout suggests arrangement for your garden-ready elements. Chalk lines, dots plus a geometric paper trick simplify stitching. It’s relaxing. Natural elements are positioned within areas, but the wind might blow a few flower petals away or sway the grasses. Just a few sprinkles, more rain, stems here or there, butterfly near its favorite flower (or where you have room :-) is all colorful fun. Your embellished panel becomes a small studio organizer, a reminder of the steps to develop your own creative themes!
Get your Sideways Motion Mojo on ...and quilt with these too
for BERNINA B 790 PRO & B 990 machine owners
Achieve fantastic BERNINA stitch quality, plus creativity, using sideways motion and editing. You’ll have guided practice for both continuous line and closed motifs. Balance (aka optimizing) removes unwanted separations and overlaps. Follow steps, test sew and we’ll fine tune settings for particular materials and save. You’ll get the hang of adjusting balance, optimizing for different materials. Other editing options make it fun. From the edited/saved stitches decorate: a ribbon, a single cloth layer and quilt something too. It’s really quite pretty quilted. With your stitched pincushion ingredients, follow simple assembly steps. If you finish early, freely explore any alternate stitch pattern(s) you’re attracted to. We’ll begin to brainstorm project ideas especially ideal for sideways motion stitching. Paula shows special effect samples for inspiration. Maybe abracadabra the pincushion idea into a pillow?
Wow to the JUMBO JUMBO ...useful in so many ways
for BERNINA B 990 machine owners
Whether you seek bold stitch drama or delicate details, welcome to a hands-on tour of B 990 Jumbo. On the sewing side, jumbo is layered with other edits for beautiful effects. Ideal thread weight varies, not by percentage, but in a surprising way. Create and test-stitch combi-jumbo too. Save favorites in a fresh folder. On a whim, open one in embroidery. A few onscreen clicks and embroider half your zipper bag. A big bold element pairs with something quite tiny, options provided, for the remainder. Intermission! In BERNINA Designer Software, Paula shows additional methods to creatively refine jumbo stitches. Assemble a lined zipper bag using a great little technique to reduce zipper bulk. Like doodling with notes? An A6 clipboard, 4” x 6” blank paper pad, and mechanical pencil with eraser fits. Maybe dream up some project ideas. Paula’s inspiration samples feature thread color and weight variations to enhance jumbo effects. It’s easy and artsy.
A Bird's Eye View ...sewing & embroidery improv with camera
for BERNINA B 990 machine owners
Structure and whimsy unite! Take the essential steps to most effectively and broadly use your BERNINA 990 camera. A quick embroidery stitch-out created with outline shapes provides the start. Outside the hoop decorative stitch "coloring" ensues. You’ll spend most of the class having camera fun with stitch patterns in sewing mode. Learn to gauge start points, practice selecting and editing stitch patterns to best fit various shapes. Change thread color whenever you feel like it. This is a very relaxing process. Results entertain, sometimes surprise and are naturally appealing. While learning, make an oopsie work. There are design tips for this. We'll also take a look at how the scanner can save the day.