ORBITAL QUILTING
OWN YOUR QUILTING
FOR REAL.
BE THE GODDESS OF YOUR QUILTDOM.
why 2 teachers are a better deal?
☆ 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 continuous quilts, and bad jokes!
wow moments to celebrate!
+4500
students all over the world.
(mentioning only the ones we could count!)
18
international awards in Paducah, Canada, Houston, and more!
+1500
custom client quilts using OQA in the first 5 years of professional quilting.
FIND YOUR SASS
YOUR FIRST QUILTING
➢ The basics of FMQ, but Unique and effective.
➢ First movements to unroll your FMQ skills.
➢ Progression you can achieve in 1 day.
It’s time to learn FMQ for the first time without suffering.
OWN FMQ
FOR GOOD
➢ Neuroscience applied to FMQ learning process.
➢ Real skills in a progression to infinite designs.
➢ Confidence as never seen.
Master how to quilt has nothing to do with practice, practice, practice.
CUSTOM
ANYTHING
➢ 4 steps to custom and enhance any piecing.
➢ Proven method.
➢ Stress-free without ditches, traveling, breaking threads.
Wanna a simple custom? Or a sophisticated one? You rule.
how we got here
In 2014, Natasha left a career in architecture and Aline, a movie character designer lifework, to start our first business: providing longarm quilting services.
The only problem was that none of us 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 we were about quilting -and how seriously we took it into our lives, even in our early twenties, plus the fact we barely knew what it was!
Starting as professional quilters from day zero was (and still is) definitely an adventure, it gave us 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.
We needed to guarantee a practical (and replicable) way to make the quilts look beautiful, like jaw-dropping beautiful, within the budget!
That’s how we invented our first method: Orbital Quilting Architecture – Custom beyond Custom.
With OQA, we discovered the joy quilting could bring us, so we went deep and started making wholeclothes!
Movement is all that matters to us, and we’ve been moving quite a bit: from creating the Orbital Board, our own minimalist ruler line, a sustainable fabric line, a board game for quilters, published two books, had taught at events, in TV, fairs, guilds, shops, online courses, two youtube channels.
And the most important: we 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 quilter’s creative carnival with lots of beauty, sass, and fun. Well, we’re Brazilians, indeed!
All we ever wanted, from the very beginning in our early 20s, was freedom to create, and now we have the pride and joy to spread it among quilters in the whole wide 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 we do so much experimenting: techniques, styles, languages… From minimalist quilts to very traditional aesthetics, if there’s quilting, we’ll be always snooping!
quilters talking about us
🤩 “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”
👌”This is fantastic. New inspiration, new perspective, thank you for sharing your skills with us. You are both so talented.”
🤗 “My favorite thing from Orbital Quilting is the innovative approach that takes away the fear of FMQ”
a bit of our work
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