fun, fresh, smart strategies to continuous
custom beyond custom
Orbital Quilting
you're the Goddess of your quiltdom
☆ 2 different brains engaged and available for your quilting learning!
☆ More variety, more style, more repertoire, more creativity, more fun!
☆ Double the solutions, designs, ways to continuousquilts, and bad jokes!
here's interesting milestones of this duo:
+1500 client quilts finished using OQA in the first 5 years of professional quilting + hundreds of personal, for sale, and class quilts.
10 years of teaching, tutoring, and mentoring. In two languages!
+4000 students all over the world (only the ones we could could count).
18 international awards in Paducah, Canada, Houston, and more!
First we bought a longarm quilting machine to start busines, then we quilted for the first time all by ourselves.
We knew nothing about quilting, so we self-tought based on architecture, design, arts, and a-load-lot of neuroscience!
Everything was out-of-the-box, so we rapdily start teaching, winning awards, reaching people in the whole world -and our students too!
In 2014, Natasha left a career in architecture and Aline, a movie character designer lifework, to start their first business: providing longarm quilting services.
The only problem was that none of them had any idea how to free motion quilt! Much less how to free motion quilt in a way that quilters would see value in it!
This fact pretty much sums up how excited they're about quilting -and how seriously they took it into their lives in their early twenties, even though they barely knew what it was!
Starting as professional quilters from day zero was (and still is) definitely an adventure, it gave them a lot of joy and some challenges too!
Among the most amazing insights from observing one another! Lol
Dealing with all the different client quilts and surpassing the quilting paralysis is a good example.
They needed to guarantee a practical (and replicable) way to make the quilts look beautiful, like jaw-dropping beautiful, within the budget!
That’s how they invented their first method: Orbital Quilting Architecture - Custom beyond Custom.
With OQA, they discovered the joy quilting would bring them, so they went deep and started making wholeclothes!
The rest is history:
+1500 client quilts finished using OQA in the first 5 years of professional quilting
+ hundreds of personal, for sale, and class quilts custom with OQA,
10 years of teaching, tutoring, and mentoring,
+3500 students all over the world (and counting),
18 international awards;
Movement is all that matters to them, and they move quite a bit: they've created the Orbital Board, their own minimalist ruler line, a sustainable fabric line, a board game for quilters, published two books, had taught at events, in TV, fairs, online courses, youtube channel, and the most important: they created methods!
Methods that make quilting feel like a breeze, that shorten the time to master free motion quilting with confidence, that lead the way to auction and select designs for any kind of quilt...
Methods that pavement the street for quilters creative carnival with lots of beauty and fun. Well, they're Brazilians, after all!
All they ever wanted, from the very beginning in their early 20s, was freedom to create, and now they have the pride and joy to spread it among quilters in the whole world!
The arts and design background did help a lot, and a personal interest in neuroscience led to maximum efficacy to get to the point: make free motion quilting fun, easy, and beautiful!
That's probably why they do so much experimenting: techniques, styles, languages... From minimalist quilts to very traditional aesthetics, if there's quilting, they're always snooping!
they've been teaching our original methods and designs to thousands of quilters around the world in two languages since 2014!
while making bad jokes and using some words awkwardly, they teach in-depth steps, with details, and talk about all the whys and dos!
they actually quilt on domestic, longarm, sitdown, framed, industrial! you're gonna learn all you need (and even more) to OQA on all machines!
PEGASUS’ MANDALA
Excellence
in Domestic Machine Quilting
CQA Canada
2º Place
AQS SYRACUSE
Exhibited
AQS Paducah
NAVIGATOR’S STAR
Best Wall
Movable Machine Workmanship Award
AQS Paducah
Excellence
in Midarm/Longarm Quilting
CQA Canada
Finalist
IQA Houston
THE REVENGE OF THE DOODLE
Excellence in Innovation
CQA Canada
1º Place (best-juried placement)
AQS Paducah
3º Place
AQS Des Moines
Exhibited
AQS Grand Rapids
BLACK PEARL
Best Wall Quilt
AQS Daytona Beach
1º Place
CQA Canada
2º Place
AQS Lancaster
Honorable Mentions
AQS Paducah
IQA Houston
➤ Orbital Board, a tool to practice, create, and plan quilting!
➤ Methods: Orbital FMQ Domination (featuring Orbital Movements, Ignitnion, Fantastification, and Expedition methods!!) and Orbital Quilting Architecture, to name a few!
➤ Minimal Line of Rulers: 3 Orbital rulers to quilt it all!
➤ Board game for quilters: create, unlock, unblock with Master Quilter!
➤ Youtube channels: weekly tutorials, in two languages (English and Portuguese)!
➤ Books: Feathers, Rulers, and a nother one coming soon!
➤ Workshops, lectures, classes: guilds, events, online courses, summits, quilt shows and fairs... We've been around, a lot!
➤ Newsletter, freebies: enter the Orbital word and never be bored again!
Email the Orbital Teachers at:
hi@orbitalquilting.com
😎"I love the idea of quilting in a way that flows through the quilt while accenting the blocks and making it look really special."
🤗 "My favorite thing from Orbital Quilting is the innovative approach that takes away the fear of FMQ"
🤩 "I like the friendly way you explain the designs and make it easy to follow, your enthusiasm is contagious"
🥰 "I really enjoyed the classes and hope to review them again and again. THANK YOU BOTH!"
😍 "I like how you explain and show how to create the design first on the Orbital Board and then show how to stitch it out. Helps to see the components of the design to understand how you'll be stitching it out."
👌 "Natasha's extremely clear instructions as to how the design was drawn and her slow actual quilting on various types of machines. She stressed the importance of fun in machine quilting which it has become with what I learned in your course. I can't wait to get to my quilt and try the designs."
🔥 "I LOVED seeing the back of the quilt when it was done. It was so beautiful and it was a clear and concise design by itself. Each block was unique. A feast for the eyes. A bonus whole cloth quilt on the back."
🤩 "The two of you and your way to teach your method. Additionally that it is possible to quilt a quilt “in one continuous seam”. Oh and the board to draw on real size quilt block *wow*"
👏 "I enjoy the personality of the girls so much; they make it all a fun experience. It still amazes me that they just picked up the quilt machine and taught themselves all this beautiful orbital quilting"
🔥"I love your passion & energy! It looks so beautiful & thought out masterfully! "
🥰"This course is fantastic. It’s a very smart way to quilt, continuous design from start to finish. What a game changer in my quilting style"
👌"This is fantastic. New inspiration, new perspective, thank you for sharing your skills with us. You are both so talented."
😎"So much emphasis in the quilting world is placed on quilting negative space, refreshing to see the emphasis placed on enhancing the patch work. Enjoy your humor. Thanks."
😍"I love the use of rulers and freemotion quilting. It’s harder for my brain to draw the design and path than it is to use the machine but without the drawing it makes it harder to see the path! I love all of the classes not only to see how but to understand how and why. Than you so much"