Orbital Quilting - from brain to body

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!