fun, fresh, smart strategies to continuous
custom beyond custom
Orbital Quilting
you're the Goddess of your quiltdom
☆ get that wow effect once and for all and make compliments rain all over your custom work!
☆ update your techniques to get breath-taking *really* continuous quilting!
☆ enhance the piecing like never before!
☆ stop staring, start quilting!
quit formulas, quilting paralysis and unpicking!
☆ master the custom beyond custom OQA!
the custom beyond custom is for quilters who wanna:
★ look at any quilt top and know exactly how to quilt it
★ make compliments rain for their finished quilting
★ enhance the piecing with the quilting at a soul mate level
★ feel confident and proud of their custom
★ quilt everything with the *real* continuous path
does your custom work fit the description "stitch in the ditch + echoes + fillers/feathers"?
replace the formula for a strategy to glow!
stop staring at the quilt for inspiration, feeling insecure and confused.
start quilting, and get amazing results!
learn *all* on selecting, combining, changing, adapting, fitting designs to put sass'n flare on your custom!
ask the right questions, and get the perfect results!
the top tells it all for your quilting to shine!
from designing to enhancing the piecing, to show off your skills, to manage all aspects of quilting: machine, time, beauty!
it feels like luck when your custom quilting is continuous without backtracking? imagine how it feels to CREATE it every.single.time!
➤ is this unconventional?! of course! this is the freaking custom revolution!
➤ you'll completely master custom beyond custom in ONLY 4 STEPS!
➤ it's even better than 12 retreats and we can prove it!
➤ a different way to make custom quilting, to get UNBELIEVABLE astonishing results!
➤ the ONLY strategy for custom quilting that replaces formula for *real* custom
➤ an upfront guarantee of beauty for any and all quilts
➤ the only way to get continuous quilting every single time without sweat, stitching in the ditch, backtraveling or breaking threads!
here are *a few* of the different quilts planned and quilted using OQA strategies and special techniques!
all the THOUSANDS of quilts we've done featured NO stitching in the ditch or backtracking over already quilted designs for traveling, and no starts and stops for every block or motif!
in any machine, any aesthetic: all continuous amazingness throughout the whole quilt!
at different styles of custom, different skill levels, and different time budgets!
and if the custom enhanced the piecing? well, you can see that easily here:
translate the information from piecing to quilting
find the intersection between: results desired, skill level, style, time budget
uncover and extract the message, features, and design elements from the piecing (without copying and pasting)
extract the structure from the patchwork
use the patchwork information allowing for perfect-fitting quilting designs
create the flow throughout the quilt
see clearly how to move through the entire quilt to enhance the piecing
apply the information from the foundation to extract the message and enhance it
select, combine, change, adapt designs
master scale, density, variety, aesthetics
make the designs pop and convey the same message as the quilt top
➤ these 4 steps changed the status quo of custom quilting: for a house they're intuitive, but OQA completely shifted the common order of custom using them to show how crazy it is to start planning quilting by auditioning designs!
➤ all the techniques and exercises work amazingly in all machines, aesthetic styles, and levels of skills - you decide where, when, and how to use the strategies!
➤ quilting paralysis and unpicking stitches you don't like will be a distant memory of the old days!
➤ experienced quilters go mad with this class, as they can evolve with fresh ideas maintaining all that they've learned within years of experience!
➤ beginners at custom quilting who start with this method evolve with the strategies making learning and growing easy, fun, and faster!
you'll have IMMEDIATE access to the full main training to learn the 4 steps of Orbital Quilting Architecture!
you'll be a pro on OQA 4 steps and will attend your first LIVE CLASS in our monthly virtual meetings!
one year of monthly new classes and live meetings waits for you among all the recorded previous in-depth classes!
➤ forever growing program so you stay sharp and learn more and more
➤ 2 teachers: is like double retreats!
➤ all-time support for you to ask questions, get feedback, investigate
➤ suggest quilts, topics, features, and submit your work for OQA LIVE on CLUB meetings
➤ join the community to share and connect (and brag with joy, let's be real!)
➤ all of that with the freedom for you to watch and learn when and where you want
checkout the CLUB MEETINGS recorded replays that are already available with special techniques and case studies for OQA students!
Each one of these is like (actually better!) one retreat focused on the theme or quilt featured!
➤ OQA special techniques and strategies for BORDERS
➤ OQA special techniques and strategies for SASHINGS
➤ OQA special techniques and strategies to CHANGE THREAD COLORS
➤ OQA special techniques and strategies for GIANT NEGATIVE SPACES
➤ OQA special techniques and strategies to ACTUALLY QUILT DITCHES (without traveling by them or having thread build-ups! you know, the revolutionary way just in case you LIKE them, so make them better!)
➤ OQA in action: Ben Millet's Star quilt case study, planning, and quilting
➤ OQA in action: Big Bang quilt case study, planning, and quilting
➤ OQA in action: Missouri Star Pinwheel Illusion quilt case study, planning, and quilting
➤ OQA in action: Fractal Star quilt case study, planning, and quilting
checkout a little bit of what's already available (and all the new, fresh, amazing inspiration ahead!)
here's a sum up of all the amazingness you'll get!
➤ learn the 4 steps of OQA
➤ 50+ immediate access classes
➤ practice on the course sampler (with pattern)
➤ start mastering OQA special techniques
➤ ask questions, get feedback
➤ intensify your custom beyound custom OQA strategies LIVE!
➤ suggest topics, features, and submit your quilt for a case study
➤ learn new, fresh, amazing OQA special techniques each month
➤ access all the previous CLUB meetings available for you
➤ the *best* strategies to custom borders, sashing, change thread colors, and much, much more
➤ learn all the different quilts aesthetics, strategies, case studies, and special techniques
Donna said:
"I'm loving everything I'm learning! And finally I understand how to create a path through each block and also how to create the path for the whole quilt.
Aline and Natasha! I just finished the sampler for the class and just loved learning the Orbital Quilting method! You are both amazingly creative and talented and you have done wonders for my quilting development. I’m attaching some pics of the blocks and the quilt – I added 3 extra blocks at the bottom because I was having so much fun!
I’ll be sharing the Orbital Board and my quilt with my quilting club at the next meeting. I hope some of them will be inspired to sign up for your amazing class!
My quilter friends are impressed with your quilting designs and since we’re all older retired people, it just shows that you can “teach old dogs new tricks.
It would be amazing to be able to meet you both! And if you go to Quiltcon I’ll definitely come – and you just might be able to get me to do and like modern quilting!"
amazing OQA custom by Donna!
no ditch and no backtrack for traveling!
Donna's first try on OQA!
all-continuous stunning custom
Donna's OQA sampler!
complete main training + first special techniques
Linda said:
"I so enjoyed the live-stream and how you guys joke with each other.
I have really embraced the Orbital Board, used it A LOT when deciding what to put on my sampler.
I will be loading a customer quilt today that we had thought I would do with a computerized pattern she had picked out but got her permission to change to custom quilting based on this experience.
Ok, quilting, my customer liked the quilt.
I had planned to go to South Carolina (way far away from me) to take a class on my computerized system and now realize I don't want or need to do that...
Sampler made and loaded (check), Orbital Board ready (check), I'm ready!!!! So enjoying this and it has changed my mindset about what "custom" quilting means. And why I truly don't like the computerized system that I purchased a few years ago and have never embraced. I've been longarming for 20 years and continue to learn. Thanks Natasha and Aline for your wisdom and lessons."
😎"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"
join the revolution!
ORBITAL QUILTING ARCHITECTURE
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★ it's based on strategies not copying+pasting a formula
★ it's not about which designs, but how
★ it's structured to mastering a set of skills, from planning to combing designs
★ it's been tested on all machines, aesthetics, styles, and skills over the last 10 years!
★ it has the perfect tutor: 2 different quilters, opposite-complimentary brains
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!
➤ 2 different brains engaged and available for your quilting learning!
➤ that means more variety, more style, more repertoire, more creativity, more fun!
➤ and also means more solutions, more designs, more continuous paths, more
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
🩵 1. what's the skill level required to join?
the revolution is for everyone, but you have to be able to do free motion quilting to enjoy OQA!
the basics like preparing the top, batting, and backing to be quilted and doing basic movements/motifs of free motion quilting.
if you know nothing about CUSTOM that's not a problem as you're learning it here and if you are an experienced quilter you'll update to a whole new something else integrating all you love!
🩷 2. can I see what's inside the program before enrolling?
of course! we are proud to show you! you can schedule a call with us, just click the link below and follow the instructions!
💛 3. how much time will I have to watch the classes?
one whole year of access, including main training, live meetings, replays and support!
🩵 4. is lifetime access available?
yes, you'll have lifetime access to the OQA community where you can share and connect, ask questions, and stay upbeat and in the loop with the revolution!
🩷 5. what kind of machine should I have to enjoy OQA revolution?
ANY. OQA is absolutely different from common custom, so everything you learn is suited for domestic, longarm, sit-down, and framed machines!
we'll demonstrate and give guidance to sit down and framed quilting, so you are 100% covered!
💛 6. can I submit my work for feedback and ask questions?
yes. you'll have access to the Orbital Quilters community to share and ask for feedback!
besides that, you can ask questions inside the course, too -directly to your award-winning teachers.
you can also submit your work to be OQAed on the live meetings of Orbital Club.
🩵 7. what's the payment method?
after clicking the [ENROLL ME NOW] pink button, you'll find different payment methods to choose from, such as credit cards, debit cards, venmo, and others.
there's also a multiple installment offer, so you have lots of options!
🩷 8. how can I access the classes?
after checkout, you'll receive an email with instructions and links to log in to OQA platform to watch all the lessons, ask questions, and join the Orbital Quilting community.
it’s okay to be curious, so if you want a tour inside the course to actually see what’s inside, let’s schedule a call and we’ll be happy to provide you all the information and details you need to enter the revolution.
we want people to enroll excited and committed to really living their passion and mastering custom quilting, so we offer a complete BREATHTAKING guarantee*
OQA just works, and we can prove it!
if you try and don’t like it, you can have your money back.
that’s right: you can try every single aspect of OQA to see if it works for you and is worthy of the investment.
all the resources, the full method, the special techniques, the support!
you get to experiment and try everything:
✅ have immediate access to 50+ classes to learn the complete main training and practice on the course sampler,
✅ join the community and share what you’re learning and creating, show what you’ve done, and ask for help,
✅ ask as many questions as you want,
✅ join a live meeting to ask more questions,
✅ try OQA on your own quilts,
✅ even submit your own quilt/block for feedback!
after you do all of this, if you don’t like or don’t get OQA you can have 100% of your money back, just ask for a refund!
no risk for you, all risk for us!
because we know it works.
➤ learn the real key points to go from cute to mesmerizingly exquisite.
➤ develop your skills in design selection, combination, and adaptation.
➤ learn new, fresh, proven, strategies to approach the piecing to enhance it.
➤ out-stand custom is no matter of effort, but cleverness and art: get both.
➤ know exactly where to start, what to do, how to evolve, and where you'll get!
➤ enhance the piecing, think of new ways and paths, have fun, and enjoy the final result!
➤ feel confident, joyful, and inspired in the process.
➤ be proud, in love with the result, and ready to go again at the end.
➤ impress whoever gets the quilts - from family to clients!
all machines and skills,
one method!
all aesthetics and styles,
one strategy!
schedule a call to take a tour inside the program!
ALERT: it will blow your mind!!