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Octi-Hoop

View our Dragonfly Embroidery Video and learn why so many sewing enthusiasts are so happy with theirs! If you've done Free-Form / Free-Motion Embroidery before, you know that your hands become sore, not with the Octi-Hoops! Your hands won't hurt, your eyes won't burn and you'll feel as though you've taken a vacation, because it releases endorphins that will make you want to stay at your machine for days!

Click on the images to see the complete kit and be sure to watch the videos listed in the Videos section on this page. You will be pleased to see just how easy the art of Free Motion Embroidery and Free-Motion Quilting and Stippling can be.

Includes: 3 Octi-Hoop Frames, Frame Handles, 3 Stabilizer Samples, Instructions, Patterns for Embroidery and Quilting and Instructional DVD that works in your TV DVD Player and Computer DVD player.

***It has been determined that there is one machine that has a design flaw preventing them from being able to do Free Motion at all. This has nothing to do with the design of our Octi-Hoops, your machine just cannot sew free-motion with ANY method. Brother 8500D - the same machine in the Bably Lock line is the (original Esante 2) the new model Esante does not have the flaw. You can still use the Creative Feet :)

$129.00

WATCH : How to Free Motion Quilt & Embroider segment on Creative Living with Sheryl Borden TV Show
How to Free Motion quilt without holding onto the quilt. No puckers, no back ache, Hands are relaxed.

Learn how to embroider on any straight stitch sewing machine even on baseball caps as shown on the TV show Creative Living with Sheryl Borden

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Free Motion = Embroidery or Quilting without the use of the feed dogs. The sewing machine foot in this case is removed and we do not add another foot to hold the fabric. The free-motion presser foot is in the way as we quilt or embroider so removing it completely makes it much easier to see where you're going. 

Using the Octi-Hoops makes it easier to do any Free-Motion technique such as, Embroidery, stippling, quilting, darning, cutwork and more... 

QUILTING with the OCTI-HOOPS
It is amazing how easily the hoops working together make quilting and stippling. The procedure for quilting with the Octi-Hoops is:

1) Lay your Quilt Sandwich beneath the sewing machine needle where you want to begin quilting.

2) Slide one of the 2 larger frames under the quilt (the bottom layer of the quilt is now lifted (floating) over the machine's feed dogs and throat plate area. You will NEVER have puckers on the back ag

If you can't drop your machine's feed dogs you can still use these hoops, simply set your stitch length on 0 and you will be shocked that they don't cause any problems, so everyone can play!

 

3) Place the next frame down (in size) on top and inside the bottom frame (( NOTE THERE IS NO STABILIZER ON THE QUILT)) and that is all that is needed to hold the quilt in place.

4) Remove your machine's foot and snap on assembly. REMOVE THE FOOT! NO FOOT IS USED! NO FOOT=NO PUCKERS ON TOP OF QULT. :)

ain, NEVER!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 How to Free Motion Quilt & Embroider segment on Creative Living with Sheryl Borden TV Show

View our  Dragonfly Embroidery Video and learn why so many sewing enthusiasts are so happy with theirs!

 

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Part 1 Octi-Hoops
Understanding the Octi-Hoops and Embroidery

Part 2 Octi-Hoops
Learn to Embroider on Baseball Caps & More

Part 3 Octi-Hoops
Learn how to Quilt by machine with the Octi-Hoops

 

TECHNIQUES


Machine Embroidery 

Baseball Caps
Tshirts
Artistic

Machine Quilting

On full size Quilts
Small Items like Totes
Quilted Pillow Tops

Mending

Socks
Sweaters

 

 

5) Pick up one of the 2 green handles that came with your kit and pretend to write your name with it. Use left or right hand. You will move the quilt using this small handle and write on the quilt with the needle... but your mind will think you're writing 

6) Place one of the 2 handles in any one of the 8 holes located on top of the smaller frame and after pulling the bobbin thread up through the quilt and stitching to tie a knot - cut your thread tails and begin sewing! Steering using the handle.. and talk to yourself, tell yourself you're writing on a piece of paper not quilting... your mind will release at some point and quilting will become nothing more than doodling

on a piece of paper.

Each of the frames has been engineered in an octagon shape and on each of the eight sides is a hole designed for our handles to drop into. These handles feel like a crayon in your hands and allow you to move the frames by writing as you do on a piece of paper.

The handles drop in easily to each hole and come out just as easily, so you never risk lifting the frame as you embroider, which causes stitching issues and needle breakage with traditional embroidery hoops.

 INSTRUCTIONS AND PATTERNS

Instructions
 
 

QUILTING INSTRUCTIONS 

The Octi-Hoops are just under 12" - 9" -7" 

First prepare your quilt - NO SAFETY PINS - Secure by using fusible interfacing on the top of the quilt and then spray the back of the batting with 3M Spray Mount for photos - to secure the back of the quilt.

Then you roll the quilt as you normally would but instead of using safety pins, use 8" elastic straps and a large safety pin every 6" down both sides of an 18" span (area you are going to quilt) As you move across the quilt you'll re-roll and re-secure the safety pins and elastic straps.

Use these straps of elastic to hold the quilt as you guide the quilt with the small handle on the top smaller frame 7" 

Lay the bottom 9" frame under the quilt - then place the top 7" frame over the quilt and down inside the 9" frame. Once you've done this place one of the handles in the hole most comfortable for you to hold it like a pen. Once you have determined which hole is best for you, then grab the inside edge of the 7" frame and slide it over to the inside edge of the 9" lower frame. Bring the 7" frame's corner into the 9" frames corner. This locks the frames together without actually locking them at all and thus does not stretch the fabric at all.

DO NOT USE A FOOT on your sewing machine and if you have a computerized machine tell it you're darning NOT QUILTING as it will require a foot and may cause tension issues.

As you hold the handle that feels like a pen, you should hold it very lightly (don't hold as tight as you would a pen) and move side to side ( Don't push down ) and also be sure that your elbows are down on the table or surface of machine at all times. 

Failure to lower your arms and have them rest on the table and machine will make this awkward and also cause you to get a back ache.

I hope this helps you in understanding why the Octi-Hoops are so popular :) there is no foot, so there is no puckers and you don't have to start at the middle and push puckers out. It allows you to use better posture so you don't get tired as fast as using other methods and your hands won't hurt because you don't hold the quilt.... instead you slide your hands into and underneath the elastic straps and change to the next loops as you move up and down between the 2 rolls.

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