Anyone tried quilting with an embroidery sewing machine?

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01-05-2013, 07:13 AM

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Quilter Day-by-Day

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FMQ is what I use mine for because I can drop the feed dogs.

01-05-2013, 07:14 AM

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Carol W

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Beautiful quilt!!

01-05-2013, 08:18 AM

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IBQUILTIN

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Love your quilt. Thin sashing is soooo hard to keep straight.

01-05-2013, 09:17 AM

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Grace MooreLinker

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my embroidery machine doesn't sew only embroidery.

01-05-2013, 10:10 AM

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Marysewfun

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Good job, CarolynMT - I like that. I haven't had the nerve yet to try it but that looks nice!

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01-05-2013, 10:54 AM

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MaggieLou

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Ok, maybe I'm missing something but doesn't the back look different? Most embroidery I've seen the back looks very different from the front and it's not something I would want my quilt to look like. I want to get an embroidery machine and I'm confused about quilting with it. Maybe if someone showed a closeup of the back of their quilt I could understand it better.

01-05-2013, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by McBrow

Has anyone tried their hand at machine quilting using an embroidery machine?

Yes, I use my Brother Duetta 4500 to embroider quilt blocks a lot!

01-05-2013, 11:57 AM

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sewnsewer2

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Oh CarolynMT that is gorgeous!!

I have done it a few times.

01-05-2013, 12:40 PM

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Embroidery-quilting class

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Originally Posted by MaggieLou

If you look at Eileen Roche's embroidery/quilting class on Craftsy you can see how the quilt as you go looks. I do not like the way the back of the quilt looks and made lots of mistakes on this first try quilt. This quilting makes gorgeous feathers, but is too dense imho. I used cotton batting and quilt was too stiff to suit me.

01-05-2013, 01:16 PM

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I have a Bernina and have used it for embroidery quilting mainly on smaller projects. I embroider on my quilt sandwich (the top and the batting) and put the back on with free motion quilting.