Obsession Quilting
Welcome to Obsession Quilting where you will find everything you want to know about Quilting.
Although my first love is machine embroidery, I began quilting so that I could learn something new and have a practical way to put my embroidery to use.
But after making a quilt or two I was completely sucked in. Quilting became an end in itself rather than just a process to showcase the embroidery. I love combining the two, but I also enjoy the creative effort involved in putting a quilt together.
But I have admit that I found it difficult to actually 'quilt' my finished tops using a standard sewing machine.
You can do quilting with most modern sewing machines either by using a walking foot (for stitch in the ditch etc) or by using an embroidery foot and free motion settings but they all involve moving the quilt under the needle and most machines only have a small throat or neck which can make it tricky.
Lap quilts are okay but anything larger than that and it becomes very tricky managing all that bulk in such a small space, so I started looking for an easier way to handle larger quilts.
Which lead me to machine quilting on a frame.
When you are using a frame, rather than moving the quilt under your needle, you move the machine over the quilt!
My frame allows me to use more complex quilting designs and it is much easier to handle the bulk of a full sized quilt on a frame.
I mainly use pantographs to do continuous line quilting but as I have been experimenting with free motion quilting as well.
With a frame you are still limited by the depth of the throat on your machine, most standard sewing machines will only allow you to do continuous line quilting patterns that are less than 3 inches wide, which means that you will be doing a lot of rows to finish a large quilt. But it is so much easier than using a standard sewing set up!
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Welcome to my Quilting & Machine Embroidery Blog! This is the place to be if you want to watch the Obsession Quilting website is growing and evolving.
Do you want to know how to make a quilt? This section of the website provides a general overview of quilting basics to help you get started on your quilt.
Go on, you know you want to... Show off your quilt by adding it to the quilt gallery on Obsession Quilting.
You can never have too many quilting books! I have the beginnings of a nice collection of books on quilting in my personal library and I tend to refer to them all the time.
New Quilters often have difficulty understanding the quilting terms. It is not because they are just a bit dense, it is because quilting has a language all of its own!
There is a lot to learn when you first start quilting, but once you have mastered the basics (with the assistance of these quilting instructions of course) there is nothing you cannot do with your quilting fabrics
Quilt block patterns are instructions on how to cut and join the pieces to form a specific type of block. Blocks can be repeated all over the quilt or you can mix a number of different blocks of the same size.
Quilt labels are not only a nice finishing touch for a hand (or machine) made quilt, but they also serve a very practical purpose as well.
Quilting techniques come into play once you have your quilt sandwich basted as the next step is quilting or sewing through the three layers.
Quilting techniques come into play once you have your quilt sandwich basted as the next step is quilting or sewing through the three layers.
Making a Bargello Quilt is surprisingly easy and depending on the complexity of the quilt pattern you decide to use this type of quilt is very suitable for beginners.
When I was just learning how to quilt I practiced on easy baby quilt patterns so that I could hone my new skills without spending too much money.
If you are looking for an easy quilt pattern, there are a few things that you might want to avoid. Like triangles, sewing on the diagonal can be tricky as if you are not careful, the diagonal edge of your pattern piece can stretch during sewing making it more difficult to match your seams. It can also mean that your completed quilt top will not lay flat when you are trying to put your quilt sandwich together.
Although this easy ABC baby quilt was designed especially with beginners in mind, the finished product is stunning.
Making a strip quilt is reasonably quick and easy so they are perfect for beginners. This particular quilt design is especially easy as you do not even need to match your seams!
Welcome to my quilting machine reviews section. In the pages in this section you will find reviews of a range sewing machines available in Australia that are actively promoted to Quilters as quilting machines.
Quilting frames can make the process of quilting so much easier, the frame takes the bulk of your quilt so you don't have to constantly manipulate the quilt under the sewing foot and the result is so much tidier than trying to quilt using your normal sewing machine setup.
This Baby Rail Fence Quilt is 36.5 inches wide by 48.5 inches high. The quilt is reasonably easy to make and very suitable for beginners.
This nine block baby quilt is made by alternating nine patch blocks and squares of fabric the same size as the blocks. The quilt has a medallion ring of blocks the same size as the blocks in the nine patch square.
The Nine Patch Sash Quilt is 36 7/16 inches wide and 49 3/16 inches high and uses a nine patch sashing to separate large diagonal print blocks.
My Brown Tones Strip Quilt was made to fit a queen sized bed and at 90 inches wide and 108 inches long it is slightly longer than you would normally expect, as I wanted to be able to tuck the quilt slightly under the pillows on the bed.
My Button SB Quilt is 56 15/16 inches wide and 73 15/16 inches high. The blocks are set diagonally, with blocks in each corner.
My train quilt was designed for my eighteen month old grand-nephew who will be graduating to a big boys bed soon and I couldn't resist making him a quilt in primary colours.
Machine embroidery supplies are essential to keeping your embroidery machine working. From the actual designs you sew out, to embroidery needles for your machine. There is nothing more frustrating that finding the perfect design to sew out and finding that you don't have everything you need to do it!
Are you looking for a few machine embroidery projects? I love using my embroidery machine and have come up with a few practical projects that allows me to play with machine embroidery and produce something useful at the same time!
Digitizing software for embroidery is a must have if you want to do more with your embroidery machine than just sew out other peoples designs.
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