in the hoop quilts
 

I recently came across in the hoop quilting while searching on the net. Where do you get patterns for it and what is battilizer? I would lover to try this

Battilizer seems to be a new product to combine stabilizer and a flat batting into one product. Price appears to be 24" x 5 yd. Regular Price: $29.99.

I quilt with my embroidery machine, is that what you mean? Embroidery Library has many lovely designs for quilting.
I have never needed stabilizer in addition to the batting. They also have great tutorials on using their designs.
I usually combine "regular "quilting with the embroidery machine quilting.

this is what I do too. Never used stabilizer on my quilts

i don't stabilize when using batting either, but the batting i use is w&n 80/20

I have just started the Jacobean Journey from Hoop Sisters through my quilt shop. It is only available that way--through a shop and you get your new designs each month from the shop. I am really enjoying it. Very time intensive, but not hard. It is (I think) very beautiful and well worth the effort, and the directions are very good.

Nancy's Notions (and other bookstores) sell a quilt in the hoop instruction book for the flip and fold method. It's easy and it works. In fact, if you figure it out, you can probably program your own if you have digitizing software.

I also have Hoopworks that will digitize almost any line into a quilting pattern.

I've done raggies using the quilting patterns and will use wash away stabilizer as I prefer the bean stitch and it can distort. I don't trust the flannel even if I have prewashed it.

Battilzer is a product produced by "Hoop Sisters", I believe. Their designs can be stitch intensive so extra stabelizer is often needed. I have never used the product but have a friend who has and was were please with it. HTH

Hoopsisters really make some pretty quilts. How big is it when it is finished?

I have no clue how to use digitiing software. I was hoping I could get a design, put it on my flash drive and just put it in my embroidering machine.

I have a good embroidery machine but perhaps I am not using it to it's fullest potential.

ck hoopsisters.com or smithstreetdesigns, have done both. Emb library has great designs for quilting including Japenese ones

These quilt books come with a CD/DVD with designs. Install and enjoy.
http://www.nancysnotions.com/product...e+hoop+book.do

The projects are simple and easy to do. Good way to see if you like quilting in the hoop. Hoop Sisters and Queen of Stitching are expensive. (worth it)

I just mentioned digitizing, since I see how the flip and fold works, I can do my own if I feel like it.

Try looking at the quilts by HOOP SISTERS...The battilizer is normally used with similar quilts - where the fabric is a solid color (much like a whole cloth quilt) and the actual "quilt" or the pretty stuff is the actual quilting, which is very dense, and is normally done on a block by block quilt as you go basis.........Hope this helps you some.................

Hoopsisters, Kenny's creations and a few more I would have to look up have great "in the hoop" quilts..I like Kenny's creations, they have some really pretty designs Storm at sea, pineapple etc...Eliminates a lot of rotary cutting not all but a lot...the battilizer is a Hoopsister's product, it is a batting and stabilizer combination..

Battilizer is a "Hoop Sisters" product. They use the battilizer instead of regular batting. It is quite stiff. I have completed two Hoop Sisters projects. In the first one I used the battilizer. I realized that it is not necessary to use it so in the second one I used 80/20 batting and it stitched up just fine and I actually preferred it as it wasn't so stiff.

You "kind of" can do that....for instance...get yourself an outline...say of a dresden plate...then you have to decide if you are going to applique it, or stitch it out as a quilting motif. As a quilting motif, it's pretty straight forward..just practice on some scraps first so you can get an idea of how different battings work with the design..(good idea to label them and save for future reference)...experiment with different decorative stitches, etc..,.
for applique..just go on you tube and do a search for applique with machine embroidery...tons of tutorials on there..
Either method is not hard, I just think you're intimidated...so go for it! Especially if you're using sample blocks at first, you have nothing to lose!

do you HAVE to use battilizer or can you use a batting like warm and natural?

lol sorry I read this AFTER I asked my last question about having to use battilizer.

you can do that sept97. That is what I do with all my designs, well mostly anyway. There are lots of in the hoop quilting designs out there, you can but them on a cd or order them off Embroidery Library. I have beautiful Quilt Block designs. Just look around you will find them, no stabilizer needed for me either.

I love in the hoop projects.

Anita Goodesign has an entire line of in the hoop blocks. Some are stitch and flip, some are embroidery designs wih stippling, etc. They are beautiful patterns. No digitizing necessary. Just load on your jump drive and plug it into the nachine.

I saw anita goodesign but those are very pricey