Combining the Silhouette Cameo with Quilting

A few weeks back, the crew from Silhouette came to our studio and spent the day with us chatting about the Silhouette and the cool ways we can use it with quilting.

You all know how much Kathleen and I love embroidery applique, this nifty little device has made cutting applique pieces such a breeze!

Take a second and watch the little video where I share my thoughts about the Silhouette Cameo.

In the video I'm working on this Sail Away quilt, PDF pattern is available for purchase here.

Sail Away

Kathleen and I are excited to share our newest quilt pattern, Sail Away. This fun pattern features traditional piecing along with embroidery applique. 

We love this quilt for so many reasons, love the nautical feel, and the clean look, but also what's so cool about this quilt, the quilt pattern is designed with the Silhouette Cameo in mind. 

When you purchase the PDF pattern you will receive DXF files that can be used with the Silhouette Cameo to cut the anchors. Also, the PDF file contains several types of embroidery applique files so you can use your embroidery machine to applique the anchors.

BUT!

If you don't have the Silhouette Came or an embroidery machine the pattern includes PDF anchor template for the anchor!

The pattern is now available for purchase on our website.

I had so much fun machine quilting this quilt too! I hope you like it as much as we do!

If you happen to be at Quilt Market this week, stop by and visit our friends in the Silhouette booth, they'll have this fun quilt there.

Silhouette Cameo

Last week Kathleen and I finally picked up one of our dream toys, a Silhouette Cameo.

I remember a few years back when the idea of the Silhouette Cameo was just coming out, thinking to myself, I wish that machine could cut more than vinyl and paper. I want to cut fabric on it. Well, now we can!

After we picked up our new Silhouette Cameo we came right back to the studio to try it out. I installed the software, which is super easy to navigate, and then I designed a simple little applique shape.

If you know me well, you know that I strongly dislike putting fusible in my quilts, so I tried my own little starch method and cut this shape out, the Silhouette Cameo did fantastic. I'm thinking I'll put together a little tutorial on how-to cut without using fusible.

So, here's what Kathleen and I are most excited about, over the next few weeks, when I find a few thousand extra hours, we're going to be converting all of our embroidery applique files to the Silhouette .SVG files, so anyone with a Silhouette machine, or any cutting machine can cut our embroidery applique files, this will make the process of embroidery applique so quick, and smooth! I'm so excited about this!

Oh, and what makes this process even more awesome, if you don't have an embroidery machine, but want to use our files to cut your own fabric, or paper, or vinyl you can! 

Can you tell I'm really excited about this new venture?!?!