Bertina Studio opened it's doors with one goal in mind: To create unique, affordable, quality embroidery designs that allowed for consumers to simply enjoy sewing and embroidery, and customer service to be kept to a minimum.
We are pleased to announce that our products have received 5-star ratings from customers on the Home Shopping Network and our website.
While Bertina Studio may be a young company, two of our staff members have been involved the both the commercial and home sewing industries for over 14 years.
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About Bernie: Bernadette "Bernie" Griffith is an internationally recognized educator for embroidery digitizing software systems and machine embroidery. This year, Bernie received the highest honor an educator can be given in the sewing industry. She was presented with the Master, Certified Sewing Educator Award at the 2011 SDTA/VDTA Annual Convention.
In her time in the home sewing industry, she has authored countless sewing and embroidery workbooks, such as the Singer® Professional Sew-Ware™ and XL-6000 Tutorial Workbook, Singer® Futura™ Tutorial Workbook, Elna® Xpressive™ & Xquisit™ Tutorial Workbook, Generations® Software Tutorial Workbook, Elna® 9500, 8600 and 8300 Sewing Workbook, Elna® 7300 Sewing Workbook, Juki® Exceed Series Workbook, just to name a few.
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Bernie's lessons have been published in Creative Machine Embroidery, CME Quilting & Embroidery, Sewing Professional, Designs in Machine Embroidery, and Embroidery Journal, covering embroidery techniques for quilting, home décor and clothing embellishment. Her short tutorials and embroidery designs have been featured on the Singer®, Elna® and Generations® Software websites. If you are a "Quilt Central TV" fan, you may have seen Bernadette's appearances on the show.
Bernie has taught workshops, clinics and seminars for sewing, overlocking and embroidery techniques at numerous venues throughout the United States and Australia, including the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, Creative Embroidery Conference, Singer® Clinics, Elna® Impact Express events, VDTA/SDTA Convention, Generations® dealer training events and staff training at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, in Los Angeles.
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About Tina: From the time I was very young, I had a passion for vintage things. This passion was encouraged by my grandmother and her antique furnished house. Each item in her house had a wonderful story attached to it and I soon grew to love the item as much as I loved her stories. I have many of her items in my home and when I look at them I am reminded of those stories and the simplicity of her life in the 20’s and 30’s. Her stories have inspired my sewing more than anything else and her sewing machine is where I began.
When my grandmother passed away, I was given her machine. I wasn’t even sure if the machine worked, but I loved the way the vintage cabinet looked in my living room. Then one day I decided I was going to create ruffled pillows. This is when my journey into what I refer to as, “the world of possibilities” began. I tested my grandmother’s old machine out, and to my amazement it worked. When I made those pillows, I experienced such a rush of creativity that I was hooked on sewing from then on. |
As I continued to sew everything from garments to drapes, I discovered that I have a passion for color and texture, and I love experimenting with different techniques. I can go to yard sales and find fabrics from the 30's and 40's, come home and create something wonderful out of what others think of as junk. I also enjoy making dolls, boiling wool, staining any type of fabric that I think can hold up to the process. Through the years my creations have sold at local fairs and at higher-end local consignment stores.
The last couple of years have been spent making my own doll patterns, painting the fabric faces, adding embroidery to their clothing and making them look like something you'd find in an antique shop. Antiques, fabric, thread and machines are what feeds the creative appetite that started 20 years ago and I've learned I will never be full.
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