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TIL: BERNINA Girl and Her 1008
- Authors
- Name
- Teddy Xinyuan Chen
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Adrienne, the BERNINA Girl as she called herself, taught me how to use this machine.
She's sad that it's all gone digital now (those machines let you program), and the 1008 is no longer being manufactured.
As you can see in the picture, there's a slider that controls how fast the fabric gets sucked in, a knob to make button holes, a knob to control zig zag patterns, and many more.
The most fun (challenging) part is, of course, setting up the thread, wrapping it through multiple metal hooks of the machine, and debugging when something didn't work.
Adrienne couldn't think of the word for how to do the debugging, I told her it's reset, and she said yes. That was interesting.
She knows HTML
She told me she knows HTML and I was genuinely impressed - most people I know don't know HTML.
I asked her where she learned it, and she learned it online, by herself!
Back then there was this America Online (I never heard of anyone who use the full form instead of AOL) and Internet thing, and she said she's the generation that taught themselves these kind of things.
It was just amazing. What a good time!
Thank you, BERNINA Girl!
How 1008 feels
- the foot pedal is cool
- I was worried that my carelessness could cost me my finger
There's a metal thing at the back that I need to frequently use, which also adds to the danger - penetrating a paper folded 5 or 6 times is fun
Updates
4/9/24
I fixed my windbreaker, hemmed my beautiful khaki golf pants, and determined that the boxy shoulder pads probably aren't for my denim jacket.
Hemming is a bit tricky and I had to use a stitch ripper with a pointy head and a blade to cut out messed up stitches one by one and redo it.
Tips:
- Match the thread color with the fabric color
- Do not completely release the pedal on the JUKI, it will mess things up. Just release it enough for the machine to stop. If you hear the metal sound when you completely release the pedal, you have to redo it.
And today I learned that there's a store in Raleigh called Bernina World of Sewing, wow!