redwork like designs without jumps

I recently purchased a quilt embroidery CD with lots of embroidery designs specifically used for quilting. It also includes several sizes for the different sized blocks.

Sure you can embroidery the block. and then set it together with sashing. But a thing that I do is I cut the block bigger do the embroidery design , with my embrodiery machine, then press it and trim to correct size. Sometimes your design can change the block size, I do this also when I do Redwork on embroidery machine. It is alway better to cut bigger and then trim to correc t size. I made a christmas quilt in a Village redwork on tone on tone white and put christmas sashing between and then stiched about 1/4" from the seam on the inside of blocks It turned out great Have fun

Yes you need to stablize it. One way that I have done it is get some Wash Away, Like Valine, deslove it in water and it makes a thick type of starch. put you blocks in it. let them dry, press and then do the embroidery. press again and set together. I have also used tear away. Some of it is not real expensive.

I have done this many times. I don't use stabilizer when I stitch through all 3 layers. You can use any red work design as a quilting design. make sure you use the same thread on the top and the bottom. I pin baste my quilt and remove the pins as I re hoop.

yes, you can, and the block will really stand out.. i have seen them done with flowers, sunbonnet sue, birds, even frogs, and dinosurs. I am working on one that has the state flowers and birds ...

yes 3 layers , and you can even do some of the traditional blocks like card tricks, rail fence, log cabin and when the block are put together you have a near perfect quilt...yea

I do all the time.

I completed a charity quilt top that was baseball themed and to quilt i pin basted then stitched in the ditch. Found a baseball embroidery pattern that i liked then modified it so that it did not complete the fill and only used one color of thread. Walla! Perfect baseballs in the blocks. Sooooo easy.

Guess I should have mentioned that the quilt won't fit in the hoop. I put my stabilizer in the hoop, position the quilt sandwich over that after spraying the stabilizer with 505 spray & fix or something similar. Then I use pins near the hoop but out of the way to fasten the layers together more.
I pick simple designs more like outlines. My Babylock Esante has specific quilting designs too. Hope that helps

I finally got the AHA moment. When you talked about doing embroidery on your quilts, I thought you all meant adding it as designs. When I saw your quilt, I finally realized you were talking about the quilting and using the designs for that. I have questions..... would it be too thick going thru all three layers....would stitching be too dense? I know, don't knock it till you try it. Just what I needed......another project.

What CD did you buy? I am so interested now that someone else ask the question that has been on my mine since I bought a Bernina.

I don't know what kind of hoop you have but I hoop all 3 layers and embroider the quilting all the time. And NO you don't need stabilizer but don't use filled designs either. Of course I don't use the thick fluffy kind of batting either I use low loft. That could be the difference I guess.

i have done quilting in the hoop and other things with the book and cd from nancys notions its fast and easy. you hoop your stabilizer first and then use the tape that washes out to hold your faric its easy, also you can use the steam a seam 11 to do the same thing i have one of them little clover hand wond irons. i do use the glue sticks al lot too to hold things in the hooped stabilizers that wash out. weze

all so you can do free hand quilting but start small like a pot holder or hot pad to get thre feel of the quilting area you want to sew, i just bought the hoops the hold the top fabric so i can do free hand and do my own designs, weze

Yes, you can embroider all three layers without any problem....however...... keep in mind that you may have some shifting of the layers because of all of the re-hooping AND your bobbin stitches will show on the back of the quilt. While that may be OK with redwork type designs, it won't look good if you use some of the designs that are a bit more complex.

My method is to embroider the blocks, then piece the quilt, then quilt as usual. Even if you just stitch in the stitch between your blocks to hold all of your layers together, you will have a prettier finished quilt.

Here's a link to an embroidered quilt on my site: http://www.candyapplequilts.com/embr...-beauty-quilt/

This was embroidered first, then assembled, and then quilted. You can always do all of the basic quilting to stabilize your layers, and then keep adding to it (such as more stippling, etc.) as the spirit moves you.

Ditto...and buy all my designs thru Embroidery Library and sometimes ebay...

I have done a quilt on the embroidery machine with over 200 hoopings. I did hoop the three layers each time and it was very difficult at first. After a while though you get better at it. I puddled and lifted the quilt at times, so it would not drag, especially in the middle section. I used the design that Candace showed and another one and alternated in each block. I also did the sashings. Lots of work, but it came out beautiful. Have no pictures, but now I am making one for my other granddaughter. I will do this one on the embroidery machine too. You don't need stabilizer when you put all three layers in the hoop. Strong hands are a must. I used 5x7 hoop, top and bottom layer cotton and warm and natural batting.

Embroideredquilts are about the only type of quilt I make. I am slowly figuring out how to put them together withou at least some kind of embroidery. I will even get on my laptop and post some pics if any one would like to see them........

I would love to see what you've done... :D

Sure

what embroidery machine do you use?

Ok, lets see if I remember how to post pics.......these are all quilts I've made with my embroidery machine..........

more of them..........

Very nice.

but what was being asked was about doing the quilting of the background with line type embroidery designs

That's what the whole cloth, white on white quilt is about. The designs are embroidered on and makes the quilt. It is a tradition where a young woman soon to marry had to make one for her wedding night. Go for it!

I am going to use my embroidery machine to quilt the next quilt I am working on as a guide to see if it will work and look good. I have the Brother 1500D.

Where did you get your stippling embroidery design? and how did you embroider the stippling and not have it stitch through the filled embroidery designs?

BTW very nice quilts.

I have a Brother PE770, embroidery only. My largest field is 5x7 hoop, but I do have a 5x12. Have to reposition the hoop, but saves me from rehooping the material, if I want to do more than one design.

Sorry to stick my nose where it didn't belong..........

I digitized them myself to work around the filled in designs......

I did three reversible quilts on my embroidery machine.
White blocks, top and bobbin thread same collor.
Different color sashing and binding. Really turned out
nice.

it seems you are getting a lot of responses about embroidering using your machine, is that what you are thinking of doing?
I don't have that option, however, I've done hand embroidery on quilts.

In two ways, one way is to piece my block, sandwich it with batting and embroider through that. It worked great b/c it quilted that area and you can later quilt through the other areas however you want.

The other way is to put a stabilizer on the back and hand embroidery. Then I piece my block. I haven't actually finished this one yet so I don't know if it works better or not yet, or how much quilting I'll have to do in the area.

Below is a pic of a block I did the embroidery through the batting as an example of what I mean.

There are so many options out there on how to do things!

"Quote" from original post," this may be a dumb question. I'm picturing an all white block quilt, maybe different color sashing and each block being embroidered and quilted around the perimeter of the quilt.
Would this work? I know technically it would, but do people actually use embroidery as the quilting?"

I think 1234Irene answered the question with all of her beautiful quilts!! As she has shown, you can just about do anything with embroidery..and I have read that there are designs that you can use to quilt as you go...

I use Embroidery all the time as my background Quilting.

your welcome

How do you keep the fabric sandwich in the hoop while sewing or machine quilting it? I seem to always have it jump out of the frame while it is sewing.

loosen the hoop so it is snug but not tight, lift the heavy part of the quilt so it doesn't drag

Thank you I will try that tomorrow as it is 7.20pm here and I will be going to bed at 8.30. I need to get my mailing done and it can take a while to read all of them and then come onto Quilting Board to see what other great information in told by my friends here.