Quilting with your Embroidery Machine or Quilting In The Hoop - Perfect Tips Episode 11

[Music] welcome everyone welcome back again these days go by so fast I feel like we were all just together just a moment ago but here we are again welcome to the perfect tips and tricks with OSD I'm Carrie and this is episode number 11 already which is fantastic thank you guys for joining me every day as a reminder we are broadcasting every day at 1:00 p.m. Central Time I am here in beautiful sunny Illinois so we are on Central Time we will be broadcasting live from our Facebook pages both from our OSD page and from our scissortail stitches page and then after these episodes you can watch either on facebook recorded or we will post to our YouTube channel which shall be there and you know about an hour afterwards for you guys to watch so today we have Tamara Evans back with us again she is going to be showing us teaching us all about quilting in the hoop which is a topic we hear a lot of questions about so many of us want to use our embroidery machines to quilt we were making projects and you know not everybody is a free motion filter and so we have so many options as far as quilting designs Tamara is gonna talk to us all about what kind of designs we have and how they go together and I will work on not stealing her thunder so let me bring up Tamra Tara welcome thank you good to be here so I apologize for the siren in the background it's almost done testing day for hopefully it sickness at the emergency system anyway it should be here and talked about one of my favorite subjects which is in there with your embroidery machine because I am this is how I do free motion Shh that is about as close as I get to it I tried but I laugh there's so many designs that you can use to quote your quilts that is just too fun not to do it with your embroidery machine so let me show you a few samples then I'm going to switch over to a slide show to go through a little bit more details here's a really recent one this is floral quilting and basically we took one design that connects on the sides and did it three times although we flipped it on the center one count that or not and this is a single straight stitch design that then we have another table runner that is done with continuous fine quality I believe is the name of it and just with flipping different designs and connecting the borders on the sides again this one is from basics by urban elements the design number is 802 eight six and there's actually a lesson in there on how to do this placement and we'll teach you add to edge quilting from that by step so that's a good resource for you another placement because placemats are easy for travel with the samples that's why I've got so many of them this one is actually triple straight stitch so you get a little bit more definition with it this one was also done on bosal which is great for place mats because it really shows off your stitching very nicely and then finally this one's a little bit bigger this is another edge to edge I'm trying not to stick myself with the pins that are holding the binding on and one design all the way across it and I'm finish you have it read this one today and that is also a single straight stitch so let's get started let me just share my screen with you right here sure okay Kerri am i good to go you are great perfect okay good you know with an embroidery machine so there's different types of quilting designs and actually it's funny I know Amanda's not yesterday about pantographs give you a little bit of history a pantograph was originally a hinged tool ever been to Monticello Thomas Jefferson's home you might have seen one where they put he had a pin on one side and a pin and the cinch thing on the other and would write with it and it would duplicate what he was doing on the other piece of paper so they took that same principle and applied it to long arm folding machines by having pantographs that they would trace and then it would quilt as you go graph just kind of got attached to quilting design not that we're going to trace these we are going to let the Machine stitch it out completely but here are some samples of single stitch designs you can have designs that are completely contained in one unit like a square or a circle so those would go nicely in different blocks of those sizes they are very scalable by the way so if you have let me close like that they are scalable if you have a machine or software that recalculates the stitches you don't want to take a single stitch design and you know take 400 percent in that stitches that are half an inch long although they'd show up really well they're not going to hold up very well they'll get sagged very easily so just watch how do you recalculate those and see if the stitch count Changez is a good way to know if it recalculated the stitches so here's some other ones here's a corner there are borders that connect and corners for the borders that connect lots of different designs and here are some samples of those actually stitched out on things these are all single stitched onto the fabrics and then triple stitch is another type of quilting design a lot of our designs are done both in single stitch and triple stitch often times it will tell you in the description of the design triple stitch foot sample a lot of our urban elements the ones that we draw in-house and Jessica share some other quilting designs may have 60 designs you know are 30 unique designs but 60 embroidery designs on there because they come in both single run and triple read format which to me is ideal because that way if I really want the quilting to stand out and pop I use a triple run a triple stitch design so that and it's not where it goes over it and goes over the whole thing you get in the whole thing again it does three stitches together that's the best way because it goes forward back forward forward back forward kind of like a waltz or a bean stitch if you will and that way your registration is much less likely to get off if you were to go over that two times or three times there would be a possibility that they wouldn't necessarily line up exactly especially if you were using a heavier batting which you know could shift a little so here's examples I have some triple straight stitch designs there's some urban elements monsters there that are so cute those also come in a single run the floral quilting like with on my table runner Celtic knot and those are so pretty but those are really difficult to do as a single run those are all in a triple run format because of the way that they overlap and all of that with a continuous line like the moose and bears on the bottom center if you start on the left side you can actually trace that all the way through and end up on the other side without ever beating up your finger so that is a continuous run it goes through one time and does all of the stitches in this case a triple stitch but I think that one also comes in the single run stitch and then you have other ones that are just really pretty bit actually just pop on a quilt or even to do a whole cloth well with beautiful quilting designs would be very elegant and of course the bottom with the fun squirrels that one is a little bit different well that is continuous run there are a few jump stitches in there where you jump from the corners over to the squirrel and then to the flower in the center this is actually two separate designs I put together that but up to each other to make so joke stitches are things that we tend to avoid in quilting but sometimes it's just too cute that you just have to do it anyway so here are some examples of triple run stitching so the next thing that we'll talk about are the supplies and notions that I think are really handy for quilting first of all stable stick templates sheets this is a printable sheet you can print a template all software out there will print it there are free software's out there you can ask your dealer about - if you don't have the means to print the template pretty template you want the crosshairs on there and you want to make sure that if it's not printed on the template that you mark what the top of the design is you know put a little arrow to the top because as you move those around your quilt it can get confusing depending on the design the other thing highly recommend is 5:05 spray adhesive and we'll talk about how we use that in just a minute then needles for quilting I use a 7511 or an 18-12 sharp embroidery needle or get needles come about sharp and ballpoint they're not universal I like the sharpness because it will penetrate all three layers of my quilt sandwich and make nice clean stitches and it's not that longer starting and I so as it stitching fast it doesn't shred the thread I typically use I support thread in mind you can use whatever kind of thread you like a gesture needle accordingly if you're using a heavier weight thread or a cotton thread cotton threads tend to give you a little bit more lint and you have some lip from the batting - so you remember to clean your machine frequently and you want to match your bobbin thread to your top thread you don't have to for the bobbin although you popping the longer possibly but I like to match the color in the weight of it then tips to remove threads and optionally a removable fabric Martha alright so your machine settings you want to turn the trimming function off you also want to turn off the tie in tie off option where it adds a tie in and a tie tie off at the end in the beginning of your stitches Oh est designs include these and you should probably check if you're using another brand of design yeah it already has a tie in and tie off on it if so look at it and see what kind of use with oh yes DS they are John altered the stitches like when it starts off with a couple little brown stitches it'll go back over those so you don't have what looks like a knot there but it's tied it off so it's not going to unravel thread the machine for sewing not embroidery so this is a little different force using a hip and not reading it you know through the tail or however it is that you or the special bobbin case that you use for embroidery you to use a regular sewing case if you look to the right you will see the embroidery tension versus the sewing tension so intentions balanced where they're not kind of in the center of the fabric whereas employee tension it's pulling your top thread to the back now approach attention is good if you think you're gonna have to rip out the design because it's your quilt to look as nice as the front I do recommend a balanced sewing tension so use that instead of your embroidery settings so Tamra when you say to thread for embroidery some machines have a difference of threading and some don't so that would really depend on your machine right yes absolutely many machines don't there's not necessarily a difference but some have an embroidery bobbin case or you know there is a difference in the way you actually physically thread the machine so that's what you mean by that yes exactly so it just makes it look really nice and resize it we want you because we have these big boots now we're tempted to make it as big as our biggest tube and then wow that would only take you know six whippings we're a child you know a baby quilt that a little bit you can make it large larger too but you need to leave some wiggle room for connecting the designs you can see here with this design from Jessica shakes collection quilting by design it's called party streamers and they're fun I put nine of them together on the right hand side and highlighted the center one in red so you can see where they connect to each other and it's just across the rows and then they kind of marry together from row to row those are all set just one on top of the other in sequence with about the same amount of space between them so I'm taking away from that and leave yourself enough room so that if you are connecting you've got room to do that then you want to print a template now your print these on stapled stick template sheets and the reason I'd like them is it's got a pressure sensor on the back of them and you can peel that off and you have a sticky template that will last you probably through the whole quilt it's reusable repositionable but it tells you exactly where you know you can audition exactly where that design is going to land when we do bigger designs like this one here it may print on two sheets of template paper because it's too big to print on just one so you can cut it out and then it has places for you to line and that together all templates will do this or all programs will do this type of thing not all of them put the arrow on so remember to mark the top of your design with an arrow but you can see here where the center of the design is and which way is and you just match those two lines together and they stick the other nice thing about this is the template sheets are translucent if you're doing this over a piece block you can see exactly where those pieces are and line that up regardless of whether your block was stitched with perfect scant quarter inch seam allowances or it's a little wonky so you'll be able to to tell how the design will land on it from the template then we're going to sit before we start you're going to sandwich the quilt layers I you'll put your bat backing right side down and then you're going to put your batting on top I like to open up my batting and let it relax a little bit before I do this so that you know the wrinkles come out of it and it's easier to to smooth out and then you'll put your quilt top in this case we're just using fabric at the top of it right-side up you want to leave at least two inches of batting and backing fabric on all four sides of the top fabric so in this case I didn't need to leave too much extra because it was just fabric but if you're working with the quilt then you've got probably quarter inch seam allowances on there if you don't have you know some kind of border of binding all the way around and you want to be able to quote up to you know a quarter inch so your batting and backing work as a leader cloth for you and you can always add more on if you find you don't have enough to sell a piece of fabric on there and that will provide you with some additional later cloth so that when you hope you can get to the area you want to stitch then I do this is what I always do for embroidery in the hoop I spray base mine I prefer that because it helps keep the three layers together when I'm hooping and that's the critical thing about hooping a quilt sandwich we don't need stabilizer because quilting designs with two layers of fabric and batting you've got enough stability there you don't need added stabilizer for a quilting design now if you were going to stitch a field design or an applique in a block I would do that before I quilt it and use the appropriate stabilizer for that design and then put it on with just the batting and backing to quilt that does that make sense make sense to me okay feel free if there's any questions that come up along any way don't you worry Tamara okay then you may want to mark the quilt this is really more important when you're doing just a cloth wilt like this one rather than with a peace quilt you really don't need to mark it because you can see where your design should go because of ceasing on it but if you do well I usually mark the very centers to start off with and then I may draw additional lines yeah I feel like I'm not staying square as I go across but it's pretty easy to do once you get started and we'll talk about how that process works in just a minute so then you can position the templates on to and I usually like to print out two templates I think I forgot to mention that earlier that way I can see where the next one's going to fall kind of leapfrog them if you will right here on positioning the template on the bottom corner of my quilt of the center and I do like to work from the center out the nice thing about that is if you end up with any ripples you can push them any bulk that builds up in there it can be pushed to the outer edges where then you'll trim it off when it's all said and done so if you start in the center you can start in the very center you could do it in one of the quarters you know of that Center that you've marked just depends on your quilt and how many times you're gonna repeat that design across if you're doing edge to edge quilting you may repeat that design multiple times I still like to start in the center so that the center of my quilt kind of looks organized and then work at each side and up to the top and down to the bottom so I'll start in the center here and actually this picture is turned the first one and I've lined up where those two intersect and measured from my straight line so at least I'm starting off straight and getting running at the center lines of the template and the connecting lines of the template and you can see how transparent these are on the fabric so it's very easy to see mark underneath there and where the templates should be placed so here you can see in more detail positioning where in the circles the it matches up with the ending lines and the center lines so that you get a good straight vertical line going there then hooping if you have a template for your hoop I recommend you use it and you can lay that over where you're going to hoop and then slide your hoop underneath and get it perfectly straight so that when you take it to the Machine you know it's straight in the U and you just have to find the center of that first design I also encourage you which we're not going to go into great detail here about all the different machine features replacement but I encourage you to use those as well maybe you don't shut the loop it quite a straight or worry about having a template to hoop it with if you've got pinpoint placement or precise positioning on a for the camera or projector on a baby library brother machine or any of the other tools that other machines may have do you help you line things up straight your hips also help you because they tend to have marks on them so if you have a straight line drawn on your quilt or you're piecing it's pretty easy to get it straight in the hoop loosen the hoop and press down to secure the hoop in place tighten the hoop but do not tug on the fabric because then you're creating different tensions within your hoop it may not look like that's not fabric as drum type but as long as it's relaxed in the hoop you'll be fine and it will stitch out perfectly through all three layers when you start stretching and tugging on the fabric one to two that's when you're gonna run into problems and get folds in the backing or things like that then we put the hip on the machine and load the design you can use the centering tools that your machine has look that we discussed before to Center it then I recommend you move to the first stitch now if you don't know where the first stitch is if you have software that you use to print the templates that also almost always at least all the ones I know have a redraw function so you can see where the design starts and where it ends and go to that first stitch drop your needle to make sure that you're matching the first stitch okay the needle doesn't lie it tells you exactly where that first stitch is going to go so that way you know if your design needs to be rotated or anything like that and if you don't have software Tamara then on your machine you would use your stitch forward backwards many machines will let you you know either with a little plus/minus and you're like you're broken stitch tools essentially to move through the design you would just go to the first stitch yes yeah your design and drop it depending on your connection point if you are connecting to the last stitch of the previouse design then you may want to drop your needle there to connect so it's um you know which depends on which way you're moving if you're gonna go to the first or the last stitch I'll try to explain that better in just a minute okay now before you press Co remove the printed template because you'll want to use it again and it doesn't look pretty in your quilt and it's very hard to pick out so don't stitch through it rock your needle down and pull out the bobbin thread and pull both Ridge to the side the reason for doing this is to avoid having those little knots and goobers on the back of your quilt unless you've got a really wilds print on the back those things show so you want your back to look as nice as the front and pull your bobbin thread up hold them stitch a few stitches then you can pause it and trim those away because the stitches will be locked if you so desire you could leave them and bury them later if that's something you enjoy doing but it's not necessary so stitch the design and then okay then you will just continuing continue embroidering and you're gonna stitch each embroidery design as you go through and you're going to match the connection points so when you drop that first stitch or the last stitch wherever it's connecting to the previous design travel through your design and make sure that that's going to meet it exactly the template usually gets you right on it or at least really close but dropping the needle will confirm that that stitch is gonna stitch exactly where you want so wherever you're connecting that design travel through it using you know the broken stitch feature however you know your machine works and to that either first your last stitch and drop your needle and you will be assured of perfect placement oh when you're done and the quilting is complete you're gonna trim off the excess batting from the outside edges you can find it as desired on this one I used a ribbon and went around it and then bound it so I had a little bit of a red edge there for its look so questions I don't see any questions in the comments but if anybody has any that would be a great place to put them as of now are you done with your PowerPoint okay I'll leave it up I just didn't want to leave you there for now let's just keep on keepin on all right so stable tips dick template shoes these are awesome there's 25 to a package you can use them on an inkjet or laser printer cut out your template cut around it and it's great for auditioning designs on anything especially quilts but also on garments and clothing you know make sure that your design is going to land where you want it to with it being sticky it's gonna stay quick through whipping and everything until you're ready to you know press start then that's when you want to take it off before you press Co and as I said it's translucent so you can see the fabric underneath or the quilt block underneath there's no residue left on the fabric I just peel mine off I stick it on the corner of my sewing machine and you said yeah so I have two questions for you I do have some questions so I had a question actually earlier and Kelly just pointed out Thank You Kelly about Oregon needles so someone was wondering so she says she has organ needles and it doesn't say that they are embroidery needles on her package does Oregon make only embroidery needles or do they make all sorts of needles organ makes all sorts of needles there is a number on the package yeah I put you on the spot I'm sorry there is a number on the package and you can look that up if it's on our website we have we don't have the whole line of organ needles we just do use embroidery needles but they do come in ballpoint and sharp and in multiple sizes so you could check on our website or go to organs website and see what kind of needle Debbie is I have that same issue I haven't memorized what the codes are on those so I write it on the back when I get it I write it on the little package so I know you know it's a sharp they also come in titanium which is great for quilting the other question we got if if I can ask is what your thoughts are on handling the bulk of a quilt when quilting in the hoop which i think is a great question yes that is a great question so one of the things that you should do yes once you've got your design pulled up and you checked you know your points before you take that template off trace the design or check the four corners of the design machines will allow you to see you know you're in the hoop and where and all that you can kind of see where it's going to stitch out do that to check for movement of the quilt that that that can move freely without being tugged on by the bulk of the quilt if I'm doing a large quilt I will often well let me start with this mother when smaller ones under the arm you know Julie that's great if you can't then I will not put the batting in my hope wilt I will do the center and do a big section in the center so what's rolling up under the arm of my quilt is just the backing and the top of the quilt so I've got more room to get further over then hobbled the rest of it you know you can even take you know pull out the space around your table which is usually the hardest part of getting ready to quilt and you can even put your ironing board up in front of your table for when you're working at the top of the quilt and all the bulk stand in front of you and you can adjust that to the height of the table so that gives you a little bit more room but you can still reach over it so a lot of the same concepts as if you were free motioning you just need to try and support and reduce the amount of weight I know with my you know I have a Bernina at home and it has a removable table I made sure that if I if I'm quilting in the hoop I put that table on you know anything I can do to sort of reduce the weight of the quilt you know however that can be sometimes it's adding an extra table sometimes it's sort of clipping and pinning but it's you know just like free motioning quilting in the hoop is a little bit of a juggling act when it comes to doing something very large I don't know about you Tamara but if I have a quilt like a quilt you know like a king size or even a queen those are things that I share with someone else to quote I say hello my favorite local long armor would you like to quote my quote for me yes I have done that as well you're real brave well you know once you get and you get a feel for it and you can tell you know when you who once you get going when you first start you want to look at the back and just make sure you haven't got you know wrinkles in there but you can generally feel them especially if you have the table on your machine or you have one of those nice tables for your machine sits down in there really much you can feel if you have any puckers in there you know any buildup on your pooping and I always look at the back of my back on the machine so start with a small quilt if you've never done quilting in the hoop table runner is a great way to start then maybe a baby quilt you know work your way up I think it's very ambitious to start with a giant quilt I mean there are those of you who are totally comfortable with that but for me I know I like to start when I try a new technique with a smaller version of if you go to the lesson on basics and by urban elements the it talks about just doing a placement what I would recommend on that is do it like six times as big and do it all over quilting and so that gives you like you know a little baby quilt size maybe and then you can cut it up into six place that's when you're done so you haven't wasted your time on it but it's a nice project to learn absolutely all right your next product that you've used sorry to derail you there oh no that's fine 5:05 temporary spray adhesive this is what I used to use temporarily my top and back into the batting I like this because I can if I do get a wrinkle in there I need to smooth it out so the excess bulk I can just pull it off and put it back on and if I need to add a little more spray I can it's easy to reposition and it's less colorless needle and it's easier to not get overspray because you're working on a big surface so you know if you just want to spray the center of it you know really to begin with just whatever helps to ease make the handling the bulk of the quilt a little easier yeah the design that we used on the polka dot quilt was from quilting by design by Jessica Schick this is a cool collection there are 50 continuous single run quilting designs all shapes and sizes there's a spiderweb in there there's lots of really fun stuff it's a great collection and it also has more detailed instructions on how to do that quilt included it in there for those of you who missed when we talked about that we did where the instructions are we did yep when you say kriby sewing information the project instructions are always at the end of that PDF so you can download any of these you're not gonna use those designs you can download it and or look at it and see how how to do it again basics my urban elements that placement instructions are in there that one has a lot of really cool quilting designs as well there's 30 designs and those are both in single run and in triple run so if you really wanted to pop use the triple run if you want it to blend blend in more like if you're putting it over a piece top then use the single run and then keep a pink her hers are just fun and crazy and you know Tula very cute designs and most of them well some of them are single like the head of the animal they're wrecking I think and single designs but other blends are connected there's a lot of connecting designs in there like the leads on the side so enjoyed those those are just a few of my favorites and that's all for my PowerPoint carry fantastic that was fantastic I I learn something every time I listen to you guys that our educators talk so thank you very much Tamra looks like we don't have any major questions you addressed we have an actual a question about tension you talked a little bit about tension earlier that you want to just adjust your tension to make sure that it's balanced and to thread your machine so that it is for sewing and not embroidery to get more of a balanced exactly balanced tension perfect yeah so it doesn't pull through the back it's not gonna it's not gonna be the end of the world if you use an embroidery tension but it just looks better I need with with that not being buried in the middle somewhere instead of yeah I you know I I used to teach it a class like this when I was in the store and you know it's we want our quilts to look perfect and we want them to be as good as they can be but you know most of the time we are not submitting these quilts to a grand quilt show for judging I know these are quilts for our our parents our siblings our grandkids you know you you they will not notice you're learning so you know we have to be we have to be soft with ourselves you know we are doing things as gifts for people who love us and it's okay for it to be as good as it can be you know right don't beat yourself up exactly experience designs are fun they're easy I mean it's there's just so much variety to choose from there that you can find a look for anything that you want to do and remember you know that beautiful baby grub that you make nobody at the baby shower is going to notice you know your little imperfection and while you're stitching it remember the child will probably throw up on it so absolutely well thank you very much Tamra I really appreciate your time and then tomorrow tell us about what you are going to be what you're gonna be doing with us time well um you got me started on flipping designs and when I get started on them I can't stop so I'm gonna show you some really fun stuff that you can do with quilt designs cool so essentially quilting in the hoop 102 the advanced lesson tomorrow so we look forward to that so thank you very very much I'm gonna show everyone really quickly just how to find quilting designs on our website so I just so that they don't have any questions but for those of you out there in the world really quickly I appreciate you guys sticking with us this long this has been a really in-depth conversation so you know it's it's fantastic that you guys are all still here so really quickly on our website if you hover over embroidery designs we talked yesterday about how you can shop by artist but you can also shop by technique so if you shot by technique and go to quilting designs you'll see all of our quilting designs and you can sort those on the side here however you'd like and as a note Tamara was talking about triple run versus single design you can see here this one is listed which happens to be free so that's a good one to try as a triple run so typically if it doesn't say that it's a triple run that means it's a single run but there's tons of great options here pretty much something for every every occasion and very quickly before I let you guys go I want you to know we are doing a really fun thing this month it started today we are doing a 10 dollar daily deal of a collection every day on our website so if you head to a brewery online every day it will change so today let's see what our $10 daily deal is I love this collection so today you can download kaleidoscope of feathers for $10 that's normally $30 this is a great collection I love these is actually some freestanding feathers in here you could make a mask if you wanted but every day that changes so make sure you come and you check on embroidery online every day and then click on the daily deal and you will be able to see what the daily deal of the day is it was a mouthful but thank you very very much for all of you for joining us Tamara and I this was a blast we will see you again tomorrow 1:00 p.m. Central Time it will be on our public Facebook pages our OSC page our scissortail stitches page and then will be posted on the OSD youtube channel as well after we're done so thank you thank you thank you it is always lovely to spend time with you happy stitching and we'll see you tomorrow

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Published: Wed Apr 01 2020