Good Morning. Do any of you have any good ideas for combining machine embroidery in your quilts?

I do alot of machine embroidry in my quilts.You do your squares and build from there. Take a look at my pics and that will give you an idea. Hope this helps.

I have done a little of this. I am planning a baby quilt right now, I do the embroidery first (I use an oversized background so that I can crop as needed). These will be done is bright colors and will be the center of stars where the points will be done in brights.

Here are four blocks that I did for a row robin this past year

Very pretty, you have the just of it all. What theme will be used for the babies room? find out and build around that.

Look at my avatar; it is a baby quilt I made for my neighbor baby last year. If you want I can post a larger pic and some others I've done. Just pick a theme and go from there.

What a lovely idea. It's very pretty.

I gave this to my DDL for Christmas. It's her fav color and flower. The center calla is applique and the four smaller ones are machine embroidered. I reversed the design for two of the squares. Butterfly is free standing lace done on the embroidery machine.

Used machine embroidery applique for the lettering on the Bama quilt (still a work in progress!) lol

Now that I have a machine that will embroidery, this is what I am hoping to do also. Let's see some great examples from everyone who has done this!

Here is another one I did. The mother wanted primary colors and a circus theme.

Very pretty. Makes me want to start a circus quilt.

This snowman is done with free designs from charming station ... 200 different snowmen and sayings ... get them before they are gone.

Am learning how to make different blocks and putting them together. This valentine is another work in progress using octogons.
Used single ones for quilted table toppers and candle mats.

Old McDonald when I wanted to work with blue fabric.

Old lady is also blue ... used border on fabric for ends ... still not crazy about the stripes.

Just look through the websites for embroidery patterns. Lots of ideas there. I like embroidery library. They have great sales.

PLB and Cute Embroidery are both wonderful sources for free designs.

Bright and bold ... Tigger
Ornery ... Eyeore
Redwork ... 12 Days of Christmas

What kind of machine do you have to do all this embroidery? Do you use the same one to quilt with too? I would like an embroidery machine and a quilting one but cannot afford two. any suggestions?

I have a Viking Diamond and a Topaz. Both have a large throat. I do most of my embroidering on the Diamond. Then I quilt on it after I have the motifs done. Sometimes I have both going at the same time.

I have done 2 embroidery quilts. This was the first. The other one was for a grandson and I can't find the pictures. It was done in primary colors with trucks, trains and cars.

I try to make use of my Embroidery machine as much as possible. Everyone that is having a baby in my family or friends always look forward to my quilts. Here is one for a friend that has a Safari themed nursery:

I have the Duetta from brother, I can embroider and quilt on it also. I have made several baby quilts doing the alphabet with solid blocks and a print in the next block simple but cute I also made a Disney quilt for my nurse that fills my pain pump she decorated her nursey with Disney and made her a quilt for a girl. She was really surprised and loved it.

Your embroidery is beautiful! It inspires me to get moving with learning that. My Pfaff 2170 will embroider, but I haven't had the time to pull it all out and try yet. I am just now learning to master my free motion quilting with or without the fabric mover. It isn't a time factor--it's energy!

Thoroughly enjoyed the embroidery quilt show. All of you have done wonderful work.

I love the embroidery you all have done! Really makes me want an embroidery machine.

I love to use my embroidery machine in quilts! Here are a few I have made.

I think it just adds something to the quilt. While we have the embroidery machines we better make use of them.

I really like your scriptures quilt ... the alternate squares, etc. I have those patterns and I believe you have inspired me to proceed. lol

I agree, I have the Brother 270d. and my son-in-law is a computer geek so he found me any desighn you can imagine. I load it to my ped box and start working. I purchased my machine on e-bay and only paid 350.00 that included shipping.

The quilts that I posted were embroidered on a Brother PE-150 that I purchased several years ago at Wal-Mart. All this machine does is embroidery. All of mine were hand quilted ... something else I'm learning! lol

I have used my regular sewing machine to quilt some table runners and table toppers ... made the stitch length as long as possible and straight stitched near the seams. Worked really well when I used old mattress pads for the batting and spray adhesive to temporarily hold in place ... very few pins required.

One thing that I've learned on my machine embroidery journey is the difference between polyester and rayon thread.

Polyester can be bleached and that makes it great for dinner napkins. I have read several places that rayon thread is not as durable and does not need to be bleached. I find little difference in the sheen.

I have used regular sewing thread as well before I invested in a wide variety of thread colors. It tended to create more lint and the bobbin area required more frequent cleaning ... used the compressed air and it worked great.

This was a quilt I made for my cousins 21st birthday. This was my first quilt ever! She loved it!
Diane

I use mine for embroidery and quilting. lower the feed dogs and start freehand quilting. Which i am also learning how to do lol.

very pretty for a first quilt. Good work.

NEVER used compressed air on an embroidery machine. It just pushes the lint farther in and can do serious damage.

So many ideas, so little time! I have 2 lg. boxes of embroidered quilt blocks and am getting down to the end of the white-on-white fabric that I've been using, so will have to start deciding what blocks will go where in theme quilts in order to use the remaining w.o.w. fabric to its best advantage. I've only completed 2 M.E. quilts; the first (attic windows) consists of practice blocks, done when my machine was new. The second is one that I shared with this board (last year I think) before I sent the quilt to a small boy. When my w.o.w. theme quilts are done (at least the tops), I want to make a rose quilt; I have a lot of coordinating rose fabric and lovely rose designs.

I use it all the time. I have had my machines for about 10 years, I always blow from the back to the front like I was told at a sewing machine maintenance class. I have never had a problem.

I just ran across this quilt that I made on the embroidery machine.

Another thing is to find a nice coordinating motif and embroidery a small strip to use as a border.

Oh wow! Awesome. Maybe one day I can do one this great!

If you have computerized machines you should never use the compressed air; this came from the repair person. The old machines or non-electronic machines are fine.

The quilts are so lovely! I have the Designer SE. I love to embrodery and am looking for more places and ways to use it. Your quilts have inspired me!

Wow! It's stunning.

Yes, a larger picture would be wonderful!