You can find the webinars, Rosemary, on the Bernina website but where I like to access mine is from one of the Bernina USA educator's, Amanda Whitlach's own website, http://www.exnovodesign.com because she has the great majority of Bernina's past webinars, including those that Bernina does not even have on their website anymore. Bernina will post a webinar but also specify a date by which it will no longer be available. Amanda, instead, collects those webinars and keeps them on her site. The webinars are all FREE. Now, these are past webinars. If you sign up on the Bernina website, you will get emails announcing new webinars and you have to sign up for those because they are conducted live with Q&A from the participants. These are conducted at specific times with a finite but still large number of participants. These webinars are still FREE but you can still catch them either when Bernina posts them for a limited time or when Amanda posts them permanently to her website.

Norma, I am so glad for your great experience and I will make sure Elva and Elaine know!

Hey Norma, where did you find the webinars you just mentioned? Are they free or do you buy them?

Renata wrote:
Oh, how nice. You could give them a hug from Denmark. I followed the webinars on the Bernina 780 and found out that I wanted the 830 instead. And you know what? It was all of the webinars they have provided that convinced me. Besides I was watching their Designer Plus webinars and felt sure that this is the software you need to make embroidery. I thought it was a lot of money to spend on the software, but then I got some unexpected that could pay for the software.
When I ordered it I asked the dealer if he would take my Janome and my old Pfaff in return if I would buy the 830. He told me that he has just got a 830 in return fore a 780. An older lady was not happy about the bobbin system and he would put down the price with 25% if I would sell my machines myself. That made the Bernina go for ½ price compared to a new. It had 35 hours of sewing, so I was not much in doubt any longer. It has been in my house for a week now and I absolutely love it.
The dealer said he'd never met a customer so well prepared. I almost knew more than him, but I spent 3 hours to learn how to handle it. First time I ever had my hands on the 830.
The software has been here for 2 weeks and I must say it is living up to my expectations. I can't think of anything I would like to create that this software would not help me to.
Please, tell them that the Bernina educators taught me how to use the software.

Thank you, you all make me want to do more! I'll be at a two-day class sponsored by Bernina USA with Elva Mungai and Elaine Cibelli on Bernina's V6 software starting tomorrow so I guess I won't get much more done until Sunday, but I have already picked out the fabrics for two more table runners and hope I don't run out of steam!

Keep posting photos Renata, they are both beautiful. How lucky the family and/or friends are that will be receiving these gifts of love. A gift from your heart and hands will be treasured for years to come.
Lori

They are both lovely Renata. And the back is lovely too. Make a few more and you will be zipping along with the fmq.

Beautiful quilts -- both quilts, both sides! I need to find some more elf time. Time is starting to get short!

Nancy

Renata wrote: I'm impressed - typing & sewing at the same time

You're like an elf beavering away

Alas, Wendy... I am keeping none! They are all gifts and I have a few more that I am piecing as we speak.

and plenty of time to make another couple for Christmas.
Love the more traditional colour one are you keeping it or is it a gift as well.

Thought I'd post the finished holiday runner number 1 (still needs a few threads to be pulled to the back and finish the binding which is almost done):



Here is the back (a tribute to Rosemary who inspired me to be different on the back of the quilt):



And here is the second quilt that I pieced the other day and will get ready for quilting today. It is the same as the blue one with minor modifications:

I knew ya could do it !!

The blue holiday runner is finished--minus handstitching the binding which I'll work on this evening and then I'll post it. In the meantime, I cut out and started piecing the second runner. It's the same as the first but in different colors. As you've all said, practice, practice and more practice, so, since these are all gifts for people who don't know each other, I'm making the same runner (piecing will go faster) and then I get my chance to do more loops and swirls! Thank you so much for all your support! It's really hard to have been detail-oriented all of my working life and now learning to let go with this FMQ stuff--I keep looking for the perfect stitches without the BSR (it's my stubborn streak, I guess...) and have a hard time not thinking about how I'm just ruining a nicely pieced quilt with ugly stitches... But, I have to admit, I was smiling by the time I got to the swirls in the blue border and just went, "oh, well..." when I crossed lines a couple of times...