Quilted in the Hoop Quilt- The Idiot Quilter Ep59

[Music] hi it's Steven here for the idiot quilter and um I've been doing some experiments that I want to share with you because I think you might find this really handy if you have a embroidery machine or a sewing machine that does both sewing and embroidery as I do now I have a Janome 15-thousand horizon it's a pretty good machine it was an expensive machine but it has an embroidery unit on it and I love the machine but the one thing after you spend this kind of money on it that I wish I could do is to actually quilt a full size quilt a queen a king a throw whatever on my embroidery machine now I have read in the manual that this is possible because it comes with a program called a Q fill and I'll talk a little bit more about that in detail in a few minutes but the thing that annoys me about Janome they make excellent machines but their instructions in their manual and in their recent workbook that I spent a lot of money for are quite frankly bad they don't give you any real instructions that are going to help you do what you need to do so I got thinking about this and how much I wanted to actually be able to quilt my quilts on my sewing machine now yes you can do walking foot quilting you can do ruler foot quilting and you can do free motion quilting and I have played with all of those I am NOT a very good free motion quilt er that is something that takes a lot of practice and a lot of dedication to that practice and to be really honest I don't really enjoy that part about making a quilt the actual free motion quilting I know there's lots of people out there that do and that's great but I'm not one of them so if I can get my sewing machine to do the quill for me I'm all for that I'm all about machines really so I started to tinker around with this program Accu fell but before I did that um I collect embroidery designs I'm kind of obsessed with the embroidery on my machine so I went to some of my usual sites and I have purchased actual quilting designs that you can do in the hoop now what I mean by in the hoop is just that basically you put your fabric into your hoop just as if you were going to do a standard piece of embroidery and it will quilt it but it seems to be limited to the size of your hoop and even though I have quite a few hoops with this machine and I have some really big hoops they even have a hoop that they claim is designed for quilting in the hoop um I just was never able to figure it out or have a lot of success with that now I do take my quilts my large quilts - a long armor I don't have the long armor do them I do them myself using a pata graph which is basically a large sheet of paper that fits on the machine on the long arm machine and there's a laser light and some handles and you just trace around the laser light and that will quilt your quilt and that's fine it works really well but the problem I have with going to the long armor is one there is a cost involved my local long armor charges about $30 $30 an hour to rent the Machine and to do a queen size quilt using a pantograph it usually takes me two and a half to three hours so right off the bat I'm spending about a hundred dollars just in the quilting process not counting backing fabric batting thread all that kind of stuff um for a quilt now that doesn't really bother me that much because really when you make a quilt especially a large quilt it's already an investment in both time and in money but that's the second reason why I don't necessarily like going to the long arm place because I have to book the time and so I have to be there I have to do it and I have to get it done while I'm there it's not like I can stop go off do something else have a coffee come back and pick up on that because again it's costing me by the hour and it's just using up my time that can be using for something else I guess so if I could do a quilt on my sewing machine then I could do it at my own leisure it's not costing me a lot of extra money and there it is I don't have to book time I can make my schedule work around or the quilting time actually work around my schedule so I did some experiments and that's where I'm going to share with you on this video now I'm going to warn you right on the onset that this is going to be a fairly lengthy video and I'm going to take you through my process which ended up with the quilt that I have hanging up behind me it's a it's a not a bad size laughs it's about 50 inches by 50 inches inside size but we'll talk about that a little bit more later so what I'm going to do is I'm going to move my camera down so you can see and hear about my experiments that led up to this so I'm just gonna move you down and I'm gonna take off this because it's gonna get very annoying and thank having my scissors swinging in the wind so here is a practice sandwich so I started off by seeing what could I do just figure it out on my own using my quilting hoop uh on my embroidery machine and so I played around with a couple of designs now these two designs are designs that I had purchased from an on line embroidery site and what a simple did really was I just put them in my hoop and the hoop that I was using for my particular particular machine is designed for hooping a quilt it only has one who usually hoops are in two parts there's an upper and a lower piece and you squeeze between those two pieces your fabric of course a quilt is three layers of fabric well top fabric backing fabric and your body and that makes it fairly thick and most tubes can't handle that but you know me for this particular machine the 15,000 horizon designed a hoop that has metal strips along all the way around and you have magnetic clamps and you just lay your sandwich down on top of that and clapping and that seems to work pretty good for holding it you don't need to use any stabilizer when you're doing this kind of thing because unlike an embroidery design your stitches are much more open there's less of them and so it's not going to pull on your fabric quite the same way and pucker it up and the stabilizer helps stabilize just as it says all of that so you can see on here I did two designs so I pulled this design up on my embroidery machine and I actually did it in four sections now what I tried to do was when I read each section I tried to line it up as best I could basically by I arm so it would look like it's continuous because right here this is one section this is one section this is one section this is one section so in other words I had to do four separate hooping x' and you can see I really had mixed results with this you can see here it's not really lined up at the top and if you look down here I actually got it too close and I started to overlap which is not a good look so it's really a hit and miss kind of thing but I felt that you might get easier um if I use to design where I could really have very clear points for lining it up and that's what I was trying here again this is one design right here this is another etc so there are six hooping x' here and they do look like they're continuous to a point but again I didn't get it quite lined up here so you can see a little bit of a gap just pull this down and you can see here I'm off a little bit and here it's too wide and I don't think it'll my camera pick it up but I did try to do some marking with a friction pan I don't like marking on my quilts with anything because you never know whether they're going to come out or not um I'll say a little bit more about marking further on in the video so this is what I try I had a little bit more success and my theory was that with a little bit more practice I probably could do an entire quilt using this method but not the most efficient so I went um just let me pull this one up so I thought well let's get serious about this and try again so I had this more elaborate design right here and I thought well you know maybe I shouldn't try making it look like it's continuous why not go with each one being a separate section and just make the spacing between each section a little bit more even and that's what I've done here and you can see the number of times I had to move booth or re hoop the quilt now this worked out not too bad because when you take a look at it and mind you my sandwiches are on white and normally on a quilt it would be different colors so your stitching is not going to show up quite as bold as it does here and I did use a navy blue on this so yeah it stands out quite a bit um it was taking a lot of time for this because this is a little bit more of an elaborate design so there's one thing I want to say about using this method it is not fast however with a little bit of practice and as you get going with it it does get a little bit faster is it as fast as a long arm no it is not but again you it's not that much slower than using a long arm and you are sort of um what you are giving up for speed you're you're gaining convenience of being able to do a rate from your machine at home without having to go up to a long armor okay so you can see this is our bath this isn't bad but it's still not perfect it's quite obvious that this is not done on a long arm because none of these connect to each other and I mean there may be a place for a look like this I don't know so I did some research on YouTube and I was looking for instructions as how to do edge to edge quilting using your home domestic sewing machine I did find some videos and most of them sucked what most of those videos were showing was somebody doing a little teeny sandwich kind of like this and doing various methods of marking the quilt up with friction pins or with chalk or whatever drawing all this grid onto the sandwich and trying to line everything up with that grid and it just looked tedious absolutely tedious and again I want to see somebody doing a large quilt I don't want to see the little tiny sandwiches because basically anybody can do this on a little sandwich and that wasn't my purpose for seeking these things I wanted me to do a full sized quilt I did find however a program and this was the program it's called edge just hold it up a little bit for you edge to edge quilting on your embroidery machine it is by a company called emilia scott designs and this lady is not emilia Scott I'm not sure what her name is maybe it tells me inside does she have created a system for doing this and do I find her name and I can't think of what her name is off the top of my head but this is this is a good system it does work and I'm gonna explain the system in a moment but you buy this book it takes you through step by step how to hoop and how to make the designs look continuous and it comes with as it shows on the back ten designs as well and this particular program that bad for expense it cost me about $62 all of these designs come on a cd-rom which you can transfer over to your embroidery machine usually do do so by using a thumb drive it cost me about $62 canadian kind of expensive actually it was $20 more than what the average person would pay for it because I was in a hurry I wanted this fast so I got it from Amazon and I paid an extra 20 bucks to get it within about two days in shipping also it comes from the state so I had to get it from amazon.com as opposed to dot CA so I paid in American dollars so with the exchange rate duties taxes the extra charge for faster delivery it ended up costing me $62 Canadian so it's expensive but I looked at it as an investment and I wasn't disappointed her method does work now this is a method that will work on any embroidery machine so I'll show you what essentially it is so what you have here is a template and what you do first of all in this system down here so you can see it is you stitch this out on a piece of white fabric now you want to do it on a light-colored fabric because you'll need to be able to see through it and I just picked them a very basic stippling design and there is a beginning point and an end point and those are important now when you stitch this out in your hoop you draw a line around it inside the hoop and then you cut that out and this gives you your template and you're going to notice that I have two templates and at first glance they look like they're exactly the same and they are basically exactly the same except this one is flipped 180 degrees because what happens is and I'll show you on my sample here when you set up your hoop and this is exactly the same size as your hoop because you traced it out and cut it out you li get your quilt laid down into your hoop and you lay this on top and it fits in the hoop and you pin it down and you have these lines drawn here which are the center the vertical center in the horizontal Center you line that up with the markings in your hoop for the center lines and away you go you can remove this of course from your template once you get it hooped now there's some very elaborate way to hoop this you put double-sided tape on the back of your upper hoop and you place this on your quilt let's say this quilt was blank this was a blank sandwich and you place this where you're gonna start and I think she recommended you start at the top middle and you lay the hoop down on top of this and then you take the bottom hoop and you slide it under your quilt and the double-sided tape on the hoop holds the hoop on here until you wiggle everything around drop it into your hoop secure it take the template off and stitch away then when it's time when that's done to move over to the next section you will take your template and you'll do the same procedure again but this time you're going to before you put the loop on you're going to line up the starting point on the template with the endpoint which is right here on this one and so you have to put it down and you lift it up and you match up the back side with the beginning of this you do some fine tuning US Mint on the position of your needle on your machine and that's you know each machine does it slightly different um snap they take this a stitch the next part it works it does work you're able to line up you see here I didn't get this part lined up perfectly but it does work but it's a lot of work and it's a lot of time and she in the book does not recommend that you do this on anything larger than a twin size quilt she says it can be done in a queen and larger but but problem is the weight of your quilt on your machine and I'm gonna come back to that in a moment so I tried that then I remembered that I have something on my Janome 15,000 a program that you put in your computer called a queue fill and essentially what a queue filled does is it creates a template for your design that you tape into your hoop and onto the grid plate of your hoop let me grab it and show you what I mean this is my hoop let me move this out of the way so here's my hoop and I don't know if it's showing up here very well sorry about the glare but you can see I printed it out that's just on a piece of coffee paper you cut it out you position it in the center of the grid and it has marks on it when you print it out that show you how to do it so it lines up with these vertical and for these vertical and horizontal lines and you do see see this on the back this is my double sided tape but actually you don't need that double-sided tape I figured out as I was going along but I was sort of using you know a combination of the Accu fill way and the edge-to-edge way and then this goes into your hoop and you line it all up now you're going to see me do this in a few minutes here in the video so just bear with me um at first I found this very cumbersome I started to mark my quilt but as time went on I got faster it was easier to hoop it I discovered I did not once I had the initial hooping done all the other hooping x' I didn't need to remove the hoop from my machine whereas with this system I'm pointing to something you can't see with the edge-to-edge system you essentially have to remove your hoop every time which eats into your quilting time so I like the Accu fill system better however this is for those of you that have a knack you fill system on your Janome machine because basically it's specialized for Janome machine so that's not going to help you if you have a different type of machine so you would probably want to use the edge to edge system and I didn't try the edge to edge system for very long so I am sure once you've done a few whooping zhh with that you probably come down with a procedure that's much faster and you can probably move along at a fairly good pace with it as well um so this is what I ended up using now I did try a couple of things just before I move into actual using the a Q fill this piece was just a Norfolk block that I had made some time ago and I decided to just try you know something like it's it's all sandwiched you can do a quilt as you go kind of thing you know I haven't really tried this method where you make your box they're already layered and then you create like a hinge system that you sew together to create your quilt so essentially you're dealing with just a small block for the quilting in each one's case and that could work too but really not the procedure I want it to go away I did quilt an entire table runner or banner this was a row by row kind of project it has applique the Bears and the moon as an applicator you can see my quilting on that now this was not done using the Accu fill system nor the edge-to-edge because I thought I'd just try what I was showing you at the very beginning just eyeballing it and I it kind of worked I kind of didn't because you can see um up here for example I kind of didn't get my spacing right I've got a white space here and yeah it's not perfect it doesn't look bad on something like this but not what I was going for so what I'm going to show you now is my actual procedure step by step that the quilt let me put the camera back up this quilt behind me just move over the side this quilt was totally done in the hoop on my machine it's not a huge quilt but it's bigger than a sandwich and as I mentioned I can't find anybody who's done anything bigger than just a simple sandwich when they're doing this and it worked you know it worked really well so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to show you the procedure from doing this and then after you've seen that I'm going to come back and I'm going to talk to you about what I learned the pros of the cons of this process and things you need to be aware of when you're doing this so let's go in quilt okay I finished experimenting on all my little pieces and on the table runner with the quilting in the hoop so I'm now going to try it on a bigger piece so I put together this small throw sized quilt and I have it backed and you'll notice that my batting and the backing as well I'll just flip this over so you can see there's the back to has this extra wide strips around it and that's because you've got to have about a hoops width of fabric overhanging the edge of your quilt so that you have something to clamp on to so I've done that and I've baste it the layers together and so now what I have to do is print out the template to set up the hoop and get everything straight so I will show you that in a second so I went to my computer and I loaded up horizon link with the Accu fill program in it and I printed out this very simple stippling design and it asked me for the dimensions of my quilt talk and I put those in and it's scaled this accordingly so you can see here it's underneath my grid but that's what I'm doing just a simple stippling I'm not getting into anything too fancy with this first try at this um so I've taped that to the center of my grid hoop and this pops out it does pop up but I'm not gonna pop it up for a moment and you'll notice over here on the sides I used some tape this is on the underside and this is a trick I learned from another video on YouTube and I'm just using this two-sided water soluble tape meant for embroidery and that's just a double-sided tape that won't leave a residue on my quilt and allows me to line this first piece up stick it down and then slide my hoop underneath it and put it in place otherwise this template would be sliding all around and it would be difficult to get it accurately in the hoop the hoop is a magnetic hoop it's for I'm using the Janome 15-thousand horizon so I'm using the S vs Q I think that's what it's called a sq 22 poop it's marked right there and this one has does not have another hoop that you put inside it it has these magnetic bars that clip to the quilt not using any stabilizer because there's three layers of fabric well the backing the top and in between dividing so you don't need any kind of stabilizer for this and I've lined up the Center dot with the center of the pattern and there are lines you can't see them but there are lines on the printed out stippling pattern that allowed me to line that all up straight so I found the center of my quilt and that's why I put a little pencil mark up here and I've lined it up at the center of the hoop and that's where I'm going to put my first stippling now this is going to take many hooping x' to do this and if you look here it also prints you out the spreadsheet that shows you the size of your quilt and each one of these quadrant squares the four little squares represent one hoop with and at the top it tells you you're going to need number of patterns across the width wise I'm going to need seven of these so one two three four five six seven and I'm going to need for the height eight down and that's basically the map I'm going to follow and as I get each one of these done I'll just put an X through the square meaning that that part is done so that since I probably won't get this all done in one sitting I can come back and see where I laid where I left off now the tricky part of all of this is going to be whether and how accurately I can get the next hoops I'm going to start at the top of the quilt and I've left about a half an inch arm from the top of the design to the top of the quilt and I did draw a chalk line all the way down my quilt rest of its on the floor you can't see it but you can see the chalk line right here just as a guide for when I move the hoop down now the next thing I'm going to have to do is put it into the embroidery machine and I have it set up over here and I'm using a very light gray embroidery thread a Floriani embroidery thread as my quilting thread um I did put in a sulky variegated thread to start with I thought that would look very nice with the purples and things but I was having a lot of trouble with it and the needle that should be used with it and I need to do some more exploring of that so I just thought I'd go with what I know and that's the Floriani and yes I have been told you can quilt with Floriani embroidery thread so that's what I'm going to use and I picked a very light color you can see it over there let me just zoom in a little bit right there on my spool so you can see that it's a fairly light off-white sort of a baiji color and my plan is that that'll just blend into the quilt itself so next thing is to get it mounted onto the embroidery machine so I have the quilt underneath my needle and I'm not gonna pretend that this was easy there was a lot of finagling here I've got a whole lot of quilt sitting here which I've kind of clipped up off my lap I've put another table off to the side of my sewing machine to take on some of the weight um but it's there it was awkward now the next thing I have to do is I have to line up my needle so that it is going through that little Center hold in the template and by doing all I have to do is drop my needle down and I see that it's not it's pressing on the plow stick so I'm just putting it up and I'm going over to my controls right here and I'm going to fine-tune it [Music] not quite yet a little bit more yeah what's going through the hole so that's what I want so now I can remove my hoop there's two little holes here so I just pull this up it's difficult to do this when I've got my hands on the camera so I'm just going to stop so I've pulled out my grid and I'm ready to go now I've set up my machine so it will do a one stitch stop so what it will do is drop the needle down come back up and stop and I'll be able to pull up my bobbin thread so I don't have a big bird's nest on the back of this so we just hit start [Music] and there it's come up and you can see on here on any camp because it disappeared but it said it was a one stitch stop and now I'm just going to fish it out my bobbin thread okay so I set up my camera so you can see what I'm doing next I've pulled up my bobbin thread so I have two threads right here and I've set my machine out of not a really fast speed about midway to the speed 600 what they call it 600 stitches per minute just in case I have a problem and I think I'm ready to go making sure that nothing is tucked under my hoop that shouldn't be and let's see what happens stop for a second so I can get these tails out of my way okay and let's carry on and as you can see it's us did you my stipple pattern it is subtle as a color of deep red that I'm using but that's okay just in case I don't get things lined up or I make a mistake be quite as apparent as if I use a really bright colored thread and according to my machine this is going to take about four minutes to do this section now this process of quilting in your hoop I should come up with a name for this um I'm using a beautiful system but basically I am quilting in the hoop and so I'm just gonna let it do its little thing and I'll come back you don't have to watch this all through I think you get the idea and I'll come back and show you what's gonna happen next okay so it has finished its first hooping one out of 56 not bad and that took about four minutes to do now I need to move the hoop down to the next section now according to the instructions what you need to do is move the hoop move the hoop down high so there is a facility on my machine and I'm just finding it here I'm not sure if that's it no that's not it that's out of that don't think I need to go into that I need to go into that nope that doesn't work that way so let's get out of that oh yeah it's up here at the top I have to get familiar with the controls especially when you haven't used them a lot so I'm going to move the whole hoop down and now I'm going to take the clamps off I'm gonna try this see what happens not really sure now remember I have my centerline marked here with chalk so I'm going to pull a wall quilt up I'm gonna grab my template with just AI over on the other side of the room give me a second here okay I found the template for my grid not sure what you call these now I'm just going to shove it into the hoop making sure my chalk lines are in the center and as far as alignment is concerned yeah I need to come up more because I want my stippling the base of my stippling to be just above the top my next one so I'm just gonna pull this whole thing up a little further you can see the awkwardness of this and I'm losing pieces off my table I have a very cramped space and I'm working on that okay I'm having a little trouble here keeping my hands on thing in sorry just put these over here for now okay so I'm just trying to there's my chalk line you probably can't see it of course you can't see it from that angle but I'm trying to line it up with my needle that's right here as I pull this up I'm just sort of eyeballing where the edge of my stippling appears grab my grid again see how that's lining up tug on this okay it might be up a little too high okay it's lined up their bottom pretty much lined up here at the top except I'm still way too high pull that down I think as I get going on this least this will be my theory that I will get better at lining up the hoop make sure it's centered on my lines when I did this the firt with some experiments I never actually drew any lines and yeah you've got to draw some lines okay I think I'm pretty good that's centered that's pretty much centered okay I'm centered now now I've got to move my needle down to the center here and fine-tune that so hmm I'm a little worried here oh okay that work just hit the center thing okay and my I think I need to come yep that's good right there okay bring my needle up oops no don't do that yet that's where I want it making sure my line Minster there there okay now we got to put our clamps back on I found that when I'm putting the clamps back on holding down the grid plate totally keeps the quilt from shifting as you're doing this once you get a couple of these on you're pretty much good okay I'll let you know a little secret this is the first time that I've actually done this okay I'm missing a clamp they've actually done it with it still sitting in the hoop moving out I've taken it out before okay I have another clamp and I don't know what it is here somewhere all right no sense wait making you watch me look for a clamp so I'll be back okay I found my clamp I've got everything set up I've got the grid out now I can do the bobbin pull up the bobbin thread [Music] and now I've noticed something I'm off from my line a little bit so I think I can just go over oops cuz I've got that chalk line not that I think being out a little bit is going to matter much but I don't know so I'm playing it as safe as I can and here we go making sure everything's there I'm just pulling out my thread so I can pick them off probably shouldn't do this while the machine is running but I live dangerously and so here's fine second toothpick and I'm just making sure nothing is dragging because if anything drags then your stitches are going to be uneven it's gonna pull on them and this is where take four minutes so that's done okay so my second hooping is done but I did run into a little problem over on this side you can barely see it but I had a little bit of a tangle with my thread but it wasn't a major one I was able to get it out but then I had a little problem up near at the top which is hard to show but I've had a tuck and I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do about that I'm just gonna leave it for now maybe I can steam it out maybe I can clip a couple of stitches and fix it up that way we'll see how noticeable it is when I get that done also my stippling overlapped a little bit not that you can really notice it because it's in a lighter section but it does overlap at the top so it means I didn't have my placement quite right and that may have happened when I move that needle around to match up with my chocolate down here so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to move the hoop down for another hooping right below this one and see if I can get a little bit better alignment so I finished the first column and now I'm moving over to the second column and basically it's getting easier now for lining it up the hardest one to line up I think was the very first one because you wanted to get it close to the center of your quilt as you can and you want to mark your line vertically down your quilt so you can line up the grid and that's what I did again for the start of the second column but this was a little easier because I had the guideline of the set of stitching that came before it so all I had to do was just move the template I didn't even take the hoop off the machine I lined up the grid with the quilt off the machine and then I drew a chalk line from the top to the very bottom and you can see my chalk line along here doesn't look straight but it is straight um I don't know if you can see it or not let's see I'm having trouble seeing it oh there it is there's my chalk line right there and it runs right up straight along this line in the grid and I've matched the edges to the edges of the template so this was where the stitching ended on the first block and now I've just lined that up with that and I'm ready to go so I didn't have to take the hoop off the machine which made putting this in a lot easier and now I can just do what I was doing before I'm going to move my needle to the center and I have that Center target mark and I'm just gonna lower the needle by hand and it's not quite right so I'm just gonna move it over smidge and a little bit more and still not there and there we go bullseye so now I'll take the plate out and I'll do my second column so now I have half of the quilt quilt it and you can see what it looks like I'll just show you a close-up and you can see that it's pretty much pretty seamless you can't see where one design stops and the next part of the design begins again so really it's working out quite well so now what I've had to do is flip the quilt around 180 degrees and start on my next section of the quilt which is the second half and basically I'm using the same procedure as before and I'm just matching up the template in the grid which I don't have sitting on here right at the moment but you know what it looks like it's this and I'm just matching the top sorry about the glare I'm just matching the top and the left side with what is happening here in the last column that I did and I'm just proceeding down doing it column by column across until I get to the far edge of the quilt and then it is done and I'll show you what that looks like okay so I want to show you how I match up the grid when I have to do a Rijo Peng so as I said before I leave it in the hoop and this just finished doing a section so what I usually do then at this point well not usually this is what I do every time is I now move the hoop up and I go to my controls here and on my particular machine the 15-thousand I just have to hit this button and it moves the hoop down towards me but the needles up here now I've got to take off my brackets that hold everything in and as I mentioned before these are all men and this is the SAS q22 hoop which is designed for doing quilting in the hoop and now I just take the quilt and I pull it straight up until I get to where the bottom part of my pattern is now it's not perfectly at the bottom it is partial and you'll know with your design you'll be able to approximate it when you pull it up so I've got it up in about this area right here and I'm just straightening out my quilt around because it is heavy and you don't want the bulk to pull on the quilt slip in my template and with this template it's designed so that you can feel where it locks in it doesn't actually lock in it just sits in now if I look down in here and I hope the camera I have someone else running my camera right now you can see the pattern along here and you can see the pattern along my template so what I do is I just pull on the quilt lightly keeping my template pretty much in the hoop and until I see the bottom of the design up here and there's a little bit of a gap maybe an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch depends on your design between the top of the template and the bottom of the actually actual stitched in design now you go over to the left side and you do the same thing you can see this one's a little too close here and I'm not sure how well this is showing up on camera but all you do is just gently tug it over until it lines up with the grid again you might have an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch probably Neath of inch is better so it looks like it's continuous and you see right down here I'm pretty close and I check my top and I'm okay there you are not going to get it exact but you don't want to overlap so once you've got it in position double checking here takes a little fig fiddling about with it then you take your clamps or brackets I'm not sure which what they call them and you put them on now you have to remember that when you put these clamps on you are pulling the quilt a little bit so double-check your top and your sides when you put the clamps in and this has moved a little bit and I'm just gently tugging on it just to pull it over it doesn't take much and then put the rest of your clamps on now I like to do it alternating sides and hold down this pretty firmly because that'll keep your quilt from shifting too much now it will shift a little bit you see it pulled there but it's okay I've got a little bit of wiggle room and if it pulls it too much or whatever and you don't like that just go in and take your clamps off and readjust accordingly and we put the bottom ones on now you do want to make sure your quilt is taunt because that way you will avoid getting a tuck and just make sure everything is secured in and double check again and my alignment is looking good now I've got to bring the needle down to the bullseye mark and so all I do is I hit my bottom button here and all machines are different but they should all have this kind of adjustment so you see the needles moving down there and then I just by hand lower my needle to see if I'm going through the hole and I am if I wasn't going through the hole I would use my left and right up and down cursor buttons just to move my needle in slight increments to make sure that it will go through that hole and everything looks good there so by hand I pull my needle up as far as it'll go and then that's why there's these two little holes in this template you put your fingers in and just slide it out from that spot so now we should be ready to go so I'll get to start it and show you so I have my thread in my hand from my upper spool and now I want to pull up the bobbin thread and you know from previous segments of this video that I have my machine set up to do what's called a one stitch stop which means the needle will go down and come back up and it'll pull up my bobbin thread so I hit the start button it goes down comes up and I know this will be very hard for you to see but it pulled up my bobbin thread and because of the same color but I have them both together like this I just hang on to them and I start the Machine and I pull the tails out of the way and when the needle gets out of my way I just trim those and away it goes okay so I have finished the quilt it's all been quilted in the hoop and I just got the binding on it trying to get the whole thing into the shot but it turned out pretty good so I'll give you a little close-up here of the quilting and you can see it's just a stippling a very simple sniffling but you really cannot see where it starts or where it ends so it looks like it's continuous ed2 edge um basically to me anyways it looks like it's been done on a long arm and I'll show you the back of the quilt as well just let me pull up a corner here and so this is the back and again I used a very light-colored Floriani thread and yeah I'm really impressed with this this worked really well so I do have a few tips that I'll go over with you in a second as to what to be aware of when you're doing this kind of quilting but it's very doable and this is a throw it's about 50 by 50 in size 50 inches by 50 inches and the next one I'm going to do and I'll put that up as a video sometime in the future when I get it done is a full queen-size because I have no fear of trying that okay so now you've seen the whole process and I'm really pleased with the end result but some things I learned along the way one in terms of speed it actually does get faster the more you do it on the other thing I like about using the a cue file system is that I don't have to remove the hoop from the machine as you saw but what I was doing how I was lining things up so that's a plus there as well this will quilt and I said before is about 50 by 50 took me probably about six hours maybe maybe less than that each it was hooping took about four minutes and I was getting the hoop in within about a minute or so you saw that so say five to six minutes per hooping and I think I had a little over fifty who thinks on this might be less than that um so I think it's gonna work fine with a queen-sized now here's some of the problems that you might run into one I started to mark the quilt at the very beginning but I didn't have to do that so I that's a plus actually that's not a problem that's a plus you don't need to mark your quilt now some people might be more comfortable marking the quilt but as I said earlier I am not comfortable with marking up my quotes you never know if whatever type of marking system will use whether it's going to really come out of your quilt or not you should have a lot of bobbins already pre round what I mean by that is make sure before you start doing the quilting process wind a whole bunch of bobbins I think I probably went through about six or seven bobbins for this so on a queen-size you're going to go through even more um not that it's a disaster if you run out of bobbin thread when you're in the process of doing this but it just takes some time to you know you have to stop you're going to have to remove your quote from your hoop and you know wind a bobbin put it back in so it just saves you a little time if you do this in advance of it make sure you have plenty of your quilting thread and this goes for any time you're crossing anything in any method make sure you have lots of your quilting thread I actually have two colors a quilting thread in this one behind me I ran out of a spool and I was using a brand new spool of arm Floriani thread for this and that's a thousand meters I really need it to schools and I couldn't get any more of that color I had that I found in my stash another color that was very very close and nearly with what the quilt the colors of the fabric in the quilt you really can't tell that I've changed colors but that's I think the next time I would do this I would make sure I have plenty of the quilting thread on hand all the same color so lots of thread lots of bobbins on what else can I tell you about this method make sure that this has to do with the weight of the quilt um if you're using a large quilt you're going to have to support it now that I did with this quilt even though it wasn't that big it was still big enough that it was falling off the end of my table so I took an extension table or a folding table put it next to the edge of my sewing machine in my particular setup I have to do that and I put it to the left of my machine and not carried the bulk of the fabric and I have a my cutting table is in front of my sewing machine so I was able to you know utilize that space as well now when I do a quilt that's bigger a queen size I do have a system and I think I've shown this on past idiot quilters which is basically some bungee cords hanging from the rafters in my sewing room my sewing room is an unfinished part of our basement and with some clamps and I just used those to hold up the edges of the quilt the ends of the quilt and that takes the weight off the sewing machine and everything moves through now I haven't actually tried that yet using this method for quilting but I have used that when I've done walking foot quilting or free motion and it works fine so I see no reason why that should work equally as well using this particular method um what else can I say about the experience it took me a while to figure this out but that's why I made the video so it won't take you maybe as long you do have to experiment I suggest starting out small do some experimental sandwiches move your way up to a little larger quilt and then go from there that's my theory I haven't done a queen-sized yet but when I do do the queen-size I'll be sure to make a video and show that to you so overall this was I'm very happy with the experience I'm very happy with my experiments I am thrilled that I can actually quilt a quilt using the embroidery part of my sewing machine I don't have to run off to the long armor I mean it doesn't mean I will never go to a long armor again there's you know there are definite advantages to going to a long-arm machine but for now I'm going to refine my methodology for doing this type of quilting and I think it's a great solution I think it's going to work really well so I hope this this is a long video I know but I'm hoping that you learn something from it I hope you found it useful ah don't be afraid to experiment and yes so thanks for joining me on this little journey that I've been on and I'll see you again in the next idiot quilter bye for now

Channel: Bland Designs and The Idiot Quilter

Views: 11,861

Rating: 4.8174906 out of 5

Keywords: quilting, quilting in the hoop, embroidery machine, idiot quilter, amelia scott designs, sewing, janome, janome 15000, horizon, using your embroidery machine to quilt, edge to edge quilting

Id: mMBdYobfmCc

Length: 58min 10sec (3490 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 12 2020