How to Make a Decorative Stitch Book 

I love this little stitch book idea. I completed my Bernina 790 Plus stitch book about 1 year ago. It has 1,700 different stitches! I filled up a 4 inch wide 3 ring binder. I covered each page in a plastic sheet protector & each group in a different color (mostly variegated colors so all the stitches were interesting to look at). I began the project just to get me comfortable with using & actually seeing what each one looked like & how I could manipulate the size & length. Now I refer to my book frequently when doing crazy quilts, applique' projects and looking for fun boarder stitches. I would recommend this project to anyone who wants to get the most out of what their machine offers.

This is terrific. I especially love that you sewed the notebook paper lines! Thank you!

I absolutely love this idea. Can’t wait to make a stitch book and maybe start looking into upgrading my machine. Thanks for another great video.

Love this idea!!❤️. Yes! Handout please!!! Thanks for another great video!!!

Thank You! This is a great idea! Love how this helps learning the various stitches in our machines fun. I’m going to try this for my serger too. As always, great camera work! Your videos always show wonderful details.

Love love this video, I love so much the decorative stitches on my Bernina machine. Thanks you so much for sharing

I really enjoyed this one Gail. I’ve got the 880 plus and haven’t used it much at all. I’m definitely going to try to make this. So much fun and you are so talented! Thank you for the awesome work you do in educating everyone on these dynamic machines!

Love it, I was wanting to do something like this, thanks for the inspiration!

I have always wanted to put together a "stitch book" but had no idea how to make it cute. I love this idea of a "recipe stitch book"! Thank you Gayle!!

Great! This was just what I’ve been wanting to do. Very cute results. I need to play and enjoy my machine more.

What a cute idea… just like you! Thank you for sharing this, it’s awesome to have something light to do while my sewjo is low! 🤗🤗🤗

What a wonderful idea! Nice way to know what those decorative stitches look, manipulate BEFORE we decide we need a bit of flourish on something.

This is such an adorable and fun idea! Thank you for sharing! This will be so fun to do with my girls 10 & 8 who love to sew as well!

I love this idea. It was recommended that I make a stitch book for my new Bernina. This is a neat idea for how to do it.

I so absolutely lovely the way you have done your stitch book so much interesting and fun. I live in wales Uk and have just brought 570 QE Kaffe , I might add😃can’t wait to make this fun stitch book.

I have one more year to pay on my car and I plan to go the next day to replace my 1987-930 Record and I can't wait to make a stitch book now!

Yay!!! Exactly what I needed and wanted!!! Thanks so very much for doing this!!!!!

Yes that is a good idea because I write them on paper and draw the stitches. This is more cool.

I love love love this video! Thank you!!

I would draw the “lines of paper” with colored pigma pen ink, instead of sewing them to speed up the making of the “paper look” pages of the book. I would also use heavy starch or Terial Magic to stiffen fabric and add stabilization for stitching. Plus a stabilizer on the back of pages.

This is the cutest project ever! I can’t wait to give this pa try. I’ve learned so much from you over the years. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and creativity 😊

Looks like a lot of fun 💐

What a lovely idea. Something like this may never rival my grandmothers‘ sampler, as the handstitching is so tiny and flawless, but the idea of lining the ‚paper‘ is just brilliant.

Learned a lot! Especially liked the demonstration of “pattern end” and the little square you made at the end. 🙏 Always appreciate your videos❣️

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I always learn something new about my machine every time I watch your videos.

I LOVE THIS!!! I plan to do this thank you so much!!

Awesome video! Thank you Gayle. The real stitches are so much more attractive stitched out as a reference.

I would like to see more of this page design book.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US LOVE THIS FOUND THIS TODAY

Beautiful!!! Reminds me of a bullet journal...but for decorative stitches.😊

Loved your stitch book and the way you made it looked like paper Fab. Thank you. Wales Uk

Very cool. Learned something new today. Thanks

Thank you very much for the inspiration, Merry Christmas to you & yours🎄

That was an excellent tutorial! Thank you! You’ve given me permission to break the rules and play around. 😂 Being a retired accountant I’m one who begins at 1 then 2 and so forth. I had planned to do my stitch book with that mindset, stitch out all stitches by number, in order. but you’ve inspired me to be creative and do it my own way! Thank you. I needed that creative inspiration. 😊❤

Another great video Gayle.

Thank you for such great tips. I have a question about one of your stitches I noticed. You stitched out yellow circles in a vertical line. The top circle was the largest and the remaining circles got smaller. I have a Bernina 770 QE and I would LOVE to know what stitch that circle is. Thank you.

I love the binder paper pages you've created! Decorative stitching is new for me. Do I need the bobbin thread to be the same color as the top thread or can I use a basic neutral color when I make the decorative stitches? Thank you!

Thanks for the great ideas. I don't have a Bernina but a lot of the things 'translates' to my Janome and Brother machines.

Great idea, thanks

What type and size needle do you use with the aurifil thread 50 wt. A twin needle would let you stitch the pink lines at once. But alas the blue lines must be done individually unless twin needles come wider than 4mm. Anyway a neat idea.

Bravo, j'adore vos vidéos, et grâce à vous je découvre plusieurs façons d'utiliser les points. J'adore votre idée de création du livre de points, je vais en faire un, avec ma Bernina 770QE. Un grand bonjour de France. Anneb

Love it

LOve this Idea. However, how did you assembel the pages initialy? Did you double the fabric to make the page or did you just do a single witha stabilizer?

Can you do one on using the double or triple needles ?

You look so pretty in this video!

SO CUTE

What brand of variegated thread did you use? A cotton or a polyester?

I love your videos Gayle and can’t seem to get enough of them! I do have one question: how did you get the serpentine stitch to mirror exactly once you hit the mirror image button? I have tried, but my second serpentine stitch is in a lower or higher location?

The Frankenstein stitch is exactly what I was looking for and couldnt find it anywhere. I looked for your stitched postcard videos but didnt see the Frankenstein stitch

Très belle vidéo

Does my 880 Sterling edition Machine stitch vertically?

Did you just use one layer of fabric?

Hello, few video cannot open it 😢

Are there some good stitches for quilts of Valor?

What is sf 101 ?