LIVE Quilting Q&A with Mark Martin of Grace Co.

Welcome to our live event. My name is Colleen Toy. And today we're gonna be talking about machine quilting and being able to do that process ourselves. We do surveys from time to time within our community and find that people want to learn more about machine quilting. Uh They want to be able to say they made it. I completed it myself completely 100%. So machine quilting is always something that we need to uh uh want to learn more about learn ways that we can do it ourselves and the equipment and the machines out there that are available. So, um we are going to be joined by the Grace Company today and remember to put your comments and let us know what's going on. Mark will ask some questions, you'll be able to interact with him, but we have people from Holland to California watching today. So um remember this is machine quilting. We're gonna learn how to finish quilts, possibly ourselves. So, Mark, we have you joining us from the Grace Company. We are glad that you're here and take it away. Tell us about what you have. Yeah. Thank you, Colleen. I am really excited to hear that. Colleen said, my name is Mark here at the Grace Company and what we have in front of me, Colleen, we have our little rebel along with our new Cutie Breeze frame and you are right. And I'm glad to hear who's joining. You said anywhere from Holland to California, which is a widespread of people. So thank you for joining. Keep coming in as like Colleen said, this is a live video. I will be asking questions. I'll be having you put numbers in the comment. If you have any comments at all, any thoughts, anything you'd like to share, Colleen would get them. Uh We'll be able to answer your questions or just communicate back and forth and that's why we like to do lives is to interact with you. But today, like Colin said, we're going to look at machine quilting and everything to do with machine quilting. Um And this would be free motion quilting. So I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna ask you this question if you've thought about finishing your quilt. What scares you the most? Put a one in the comment. Is it for emotion quilting? Is it space? And so you do push quilting and push quilting. How many of you who have thought about doing quilting do push quilting and realize maybe it's not as intuitive. It could be a little fatigue on the body. Put a number two in there. If you're that quilter who does push quilting and you're realizing I'm hunched over a little more than I like or I am trying to do designs and trying to grip the fabric. And as you get older, our grip strength goes away. Um And also trying to be creative and the throw space that you have. So put a one in the comment again, if you were free motion, scared and put it to the comment. If you are the quilt who push quilts with a little fatigue, maybe there's a one attitude together. So you might be seeing a lot of those ones. A lot of those twos, you may have one and two together. Um Are they coming in a lot of ones? A lot of two? We're gonna, so far we've got a split. So I think that both of these are concerns to our coal. I know it was a concern of mine when I started to do free motion quilting. Yes, it is. Free motion quilting for whatever reason. You know, free motion quilting is like picking up a pin and as a quilter, we've all doodled around, right? You have your notebook, you're in a meeting, you're at a dentist appointment, you're in, you're somewhere where you're just like, you know what, I'm gonna bring up my notepad, get a pen and I'm gonna just doodle around and if you think about it that way, that's what free motion quilting is. And especially it's easier when you have a machine on a carriage to do your free motion quilting. Um Now there are a lot of quilters out there who would like to do the push quilting and are really good at it. So that is ok if that works for you. Great. You're finishing your quilt. Like Colleen mentioned, you can piece and finish your quilt from start to finish because of what you're good at. Now, I know some of the obstacles, some of the hurdles that come in and as we talk about the little rebel and our cutie Breeze paired together is one dynamic duel. If you will, who will, will bring you great enjoyment to quilting? Um You know, a question I ask often as I travel and it's funny to see the reaction. You know how many quilt tops you have. Go ahead and put in the comment, how many quilt tops already that you have ready to quilt. Um You know, you can have a big number or a small number, but put in the comments, just a number of how many quilt tops that you're ready to quilt. Now, if I were to ask you a question. All right, you have five quilt tops and you push quilt and maybe some of them are queen, maybe a couple are king or you know, a lot of twin a baby. And I ask you, are you excited? Right? Are you excited to get your quilt onto your machine? Whatever machine that may be to finish those quilts. Go ahead and put a number three in the comment. If you are excited to get your quilts, get it on your sit down machine and you're ready to push quilt again. Put a three in the comment if you are. If you are excited because a lot of the faces and answers I get back as I'm interacting with those at a show they're like or they're like mm. Or they say no, some of them will say, yeah. But for the most part, if you're push quilting, it's like, uh, now I have to get my large quilt out. Uh I gotta put it over my shoulder as I'm looking to do the quilting. Uh, you have your little machine, which is, again, really good. Um, but you're, you're restricted to what you have as far as your machine goes. Right. So, Colleen, how many of those threes came in if they're excited? And how many quilt tops do people have ready to quilt? Well, as they're waking up, they haven't, they haven't jumped and said they're really excited yet. So, if it's a no to the excitement, I'm assuming they're, they're, they're not answering if they're like me when you said, are you excited to push quilt? Those? No, I, and I think all of my friends would agree that that's why they're in the stack and they're not done. Right. Exactly. Right. So, let's bring that excitement back. Right. Let's enjoy what we're doing. Right. Colleen, if you're one of those co quilting is a fun hobby and you're supposed to enjoy it from a young age. If you're older, it doesn't matter. We want you to enjoy it and we want to eliminate some of those issues, some of those struggles, some of those well known, um, topics that we all go through as a quilter. Whether that's space, whether that's a machine you have, whether that's, you know, foot pedal driven and you want to stitch regulation, um, whether you got to go rent it. I mean, you know, people go rent out machines and those quilters, I like to call, you know, kind of pocketbook quilters, right where you're either paying someone to do your own quilting or you're going in a renting out machine to do your own quilting. But either way you have to take your materials out of your home, put them in a bag, load them up in your vehicle, drive to wherever you're going. Um Some of them I've even heard would ship their quilt top to someone outside the state to do their quilting for you. If you're one of those quilters as well, there's nothing wrong with that. But today we're gonna talk about how you can finish your quilts from start to finish all your own and nothing is better, right? Nothing is better when you make a quilt for somebody. And it's you who made that entire quilt now, I don't want you to be saying, well, it's not perfect. And the one I sent it off, how many times when you may be quilted when you started that you're thinking, oh, this isn't like this isn't any good who's gonna want this? Is that something that comes across your mind? Oh, I had to try and hide the seam ripper for myself because I know I would always look back and go. 00, no. My eyes always gonna see that. Well, if you gift it to someone, your doesn't i, your eye doesn't see it at all. But we are very hard on ourselves. And so we want perfection as high as we can get it. So that's always been. Absolutely. It is. It is. Isn't it a finished quilt better than non finished quilt? Most definitely. Most definitely. I have one, that I finished this last week. The blocks sat for 12 years. It's now done. I finished it myself finally. Yeah. Yes. A finished quilt is better than a non finished quilt. And you know what? You finished it. You know, quilters I think are coming a little, a little more, come to grips with. You know what? I don't want to hear from someone like, oh, you messed up here or why is that upside down or you crossed over a line? Don't let that get you practice right. We all know practice. How old saying practice makes perfect. It truly does. You know, as you continue to do free motion, get out of your fear, get comfortable of doing what you love to do and not think about it. You will see beautiful designs and I gotta be honest with you, you finish your own quilt. Don't let anybody tell you different how it's not perfect. I know like Colleen said, the quilters hold a high standard when you're quilting your own quilt top and you're putting that together for a loved one. But I'll tell you this, it is perfect in your eyes. It doesn't matter. No one's going to receive that gift. Like Colleen said is like, oh jeez, like you made this for me, but look at all these, no one's gonna say that. So make your quilts for your loved ones and finish them. Exactly. Because those imperfections are part of us. They are, they are part of the fabric literally that we create for someone and it wraps around a body whether or not there's a cross over thread somewhere or that curve wasn't perfect. It has kind of an elbow in it. It still holds the layers together and wraps around a body and gives them a big hug. Yeah, I love that. You're right. I love that. You're absolutely true about that. Um Piecing, right, Colleen, if we're talking about finishing your quilt and you're going to take it somewhere or have someone else do it or you're just holding on to that quilt top because you're nervous. You did all that work, right? How many of you laid your piecing on your floor to match up your colors where they need to go and then you look at it and you kind of scrub the board again. You're like, nope, let's put it here, let's put it here and then you, nope, let's put it here. So you're constantly rearranging your quilt. How much time and effort you put in to lay your quilt top about. Let's finish it now. Right, Colleen, let's get that beautiful quilt top and finish it. Exactly. The last thing I want is for when, when I pass away is for someone to find a whole closet of unfinished tops. That that's happened in the past, that was before we had the ability to do this wonderful machine, quilting ourselves. And people were, you know, quilting by hand, everything which is beautiful. It's an art in its own. But thank you, I love my machine. So I wanna use that machine to get all the way to the end. That's right. Big or small, right? If that's what you have, finish your quilts. But as we talk about what I have in front of me, you're going to enjoy it much more because of obviously, we know when you're, I mean, Colleen, you, you started, I would assume with a smaller throw as you've gone in your journey. And what do quilters do when they have a smaller throw as time goes on. What do you want? Something bigger? We, we wanted to fit a bed. I mean, we can only use so many throw size quilts and everyone in our family has gotten one for their birthday for the new baby for, for graduation. Now we want bed size quilts. So we want bigger. Yes, you want bigger and then to go bigger, you have your machine, you also want that bigger. And I don't know if that's where you're looking to bigger quilts, but also bigger machine as you, as you progress, you're like, ok, I have a bigger quilt. I was using my small machine. Quilters always want to go bigger. Whether it's your quilt top to fit your bed, right? Or to get a larger machine itself. Yes, you hit the nail on the head because once we fall in love with quilting, we want the Cadillac of machines. We, we want the space and the capability to enjoy the process. So I don't know if I know any quilters who haven't upgraded once or twice or maybe three times. Yeah, you're right. And that upgrading process can be, I mean, just maybe a newer machine, but either way you're upgrading to a newer model to a larger throw something to make your journey of quilting again, more enjoyable. We want quilting to be enjoyable. All right, we don't want to have those thoughts in our mind. You know, the fear, it's not gonna be good. I have quil tops. I don't wanna quilt those. I'm not ready. And so like Colleen said, you don't wanna, you know, have her bid pass away and then grandkids come in like, oh, grandma had all these quilt tops or whoever loved him passed away had all these quilt tops. Let's finish those quilt tops for your loved ones. Um, and make it easier. Now, let's look at a couple of things when I'm gonna talk about push quilting here in a minute for a minute. Um Push quilting, we have to deal with a couple of things. Right. Full pedal. Foot pedal is what every machine comes with. That's the starting point. That's what starts your machine. Now, we know a foot pedal, there's no regulating of the foot pedal. Now, the stitches would come larger. It would be smaller depending on how heavy foot you are, right. If you are heavy foot, you press down the foot pedal and you're quoting along and you're not moving your fabric. If you're push clothing, you're not moving your fabric fast enough. Colleen what happens to our stitches and everybody knows this right. But what happens to our stitches if our needle is going really, really fast, but because maybe I'm nervous, I'm moving the fabric slow. What happens? You just get a lot of thread build up. It just tiny, tiny stitches, it can destroy the fabric itself. You've got to find a rhythm but that foot pedal is harder to control the stitch length. It's really difficult. It is. And that could be, again, something that you're thinking, ok, I'm not good at it because I can't control my, again. Practice is your quilt. So, finish it. If that's what you're doing, finish your quilt with the little revel. Now, how many of you who are watching? Put a five, let's do a five. Put a five in the comment. If you've heard of The Little Rebel or maybe already have one coming to you. Put a five in the comment, if you've heard about it or if you have one coming to you because this is what we're gonna talk about today. Look at this picture as you see right there. Right. That was beautiful at the throw space. Long throat. This little rebel is 13 inches Colleen 13 inches of awesomeness, large throat. It's a huge upgrade from what they have and it has stitch regulation built into the machine. Hm. Nice. Right. There is the, and it's also, as you said, picture I haven't even talked about. It's a sewing machine as well. Right now we're talking about quilting, but you can piece your quilt top with the little rebel 13 in throat. And let's talk about speed. People like to have fast machines. This machine stitches at 1600 stitches per minute. Oh, sorry, 18 hundreds to permit it. So it is, it is fast, um, easy to use. We have that speed and we have the larger throat Colleen. How many number fives have you seen those fives come in. I've got at least three so far as people are getting into. So they've seen the rabble. They've heard about it. Getting to see it up close is fabulous. Getting. Yes. All right. The little rebel 13 inches. I said of awesomeness. Built in stitch regulation. One thing that I really love that really sets this apart. Everybody talks about when you quilt, when you piece the bobbin, right? The Bobbin on those small machines are mostly the L class Bobbin. The little Rebel has an M class Bobbin. So it has a larger Bobbin. And in fact, I have a fun story we were doing um you know, some focus groups and one or a lot of the customers, I should say those who are doing the focus group were saying one thing that stood out to me was they didn't have to change a Bobbin when they were piecing the quilt. And then they went to quilt their quilt with the little Rebel. They used the same Bobbin, which again, if you're talking about the experience, Colleen, how many Bobbin changes have you done over time as you had, you know, your piecing or your quilting? How many Bobbin changes do you go through? Well, if you count how many Bobbins you empty in a day, then you know, you've really gone a long way. But on traditional machine easily at a quilt retreat. You can run through four Bobbins in a day. You're constantly having to stop or if you've dare be, you know, um, string piecing and you just, you're just sewing along and pretty soon you realize the pieces are just falling off the back of your machine and they're not stitched because my friend had a Bobbin. Didn't even hear the Bobbin warning, you know, sound, go off. But I would love to have that large Bobbin. That would be fabulous. Yes. The large Bobbin is fabulous. And it's going to help the experience be that more, more enjoyable because you're not constantly changing out your Bobbin. Ok. So the M class Bobbin, the little rebel has I talked about the stitch regulation? Now, let's talk about push quilting. Now for a minute before we get into this dynamic dual of a system I have in front of me. Push quilting. We talked about the foot pedal, right? Full pedal is one. Obviously, if you're pushing harder, you gotta move the fabric faster and if you go slower, you gotta move the fabric slower. So you're trying all these, your brain is trying to process all these variables as you're, as you're quilting, right? If you're going to go fast, I gotta go fast, I might go slow. I gotta go slow. So you trying to, you're trying to commute all the things that's going on in your brain. That's what's happening in your quilt the little rubble stitch regulation is built in to it at the bottom. Here, we have a sensor at the bottom that will move or when you move the fabric around it and it's even more. I mean, it's gonna be more enjoyable when you move it around the fabric. But as you push quilt right there, this little square right there is the center. So as you push your fabric over this and you're moving it around, this is what's going to regulate your stitches. So that's right. So built in stitch regulation, if that foot pedal is scaring you or if you can't control it, don't worry about it. The Little Rebel has that built in stitch regulation. So when you're push quilting, because that's the space you have push quilters only have restricted amount of space in their quilting room, right? You have your ironing board, your cutting table, you have bolts of fabric, um which is a beautiful sight. My wife when I walk into her quilting room, that's what it is, is both of fabric. You got your ironing board, um You have your cutting table and it's filled wall to wall, right? So it's like I don't have space. And so what you do have is ability to push quilt because we like to finish our quilt. So if you're push quilting, the Little Rebel has that regulation built in. So you're able to move it around getting those consistent stitches. So no more if you're moving the fabric slow. Well, guess what? That needle is going to replicate how slow you move. And if you move the fabric faster, well, same thing that needle is going to move fast because you're moving the fabric fast. This sensor senses how fast and how slow you are moving the fabric around. So if you're push quilting stitch regulation is the way to go, you're gonna enjoy it much more. And you're gonna like when someone ask you next time, hey, how many quilt tops do you have? Are you excited to quilt it? You're like, yes, that I I'm ready to quilt and you don't have to worry about like I'm not ready to quilt. So stitch regulation. Now, on the side of my machine, we have features that go to the speed of the machine, the stitch length of the machine. So when you're piecing and using this as a piecing machine, it, you will see lit up right over here. We have a couple of things. One I wanna point out this QE, this QE is the quilting button and as you can see if I press it, nothing is happening. Ok. There's no light that comes in because it's not ready. It's not ready to do the quilting yet because I'm gonna do something to turn it that way. But you can see on the sides here. Beautiful, easy to, to see lights that light up. So you can have your speed So as we go up to this length, you can see that those lights will go up, that's the speed and you can go down. Same thing, you'll see the lights go down and over here is a length, you can see the markers as you move forward. What that's indicating. So we wanted to keep it simple. We wanted the, how would I say this? The comfort, right? If you're using your own machine, you use it because you know how to use it, you're comfortable using it and you know what you need to do to make sure that it's working properly. So, in that field, you, you feel very comfortable. And so the transition normally to a long arm Colleen when you transitioned and I don't know your whole quilting journey, but I'm sure you started like everybody else and you had a machine and it was smaller and then as you transition bigger and bigger, what made that transition easy in your mind as you moved forward? What was that transition? What did it, what made it easy? What made it easy, I guess was that number one? Um I started on a machine that you couldn't even drop the feed dogs, you had to cover it with a plate. Um I had tiny little space. I was push quilting on a oh Ken Moore and, and you know, it's a good machine for piecing, but it wasn't not made for machine quilting. It was so tiny and when I switched to larger machines, something that was easy to use. That's what I looked for. Something that was easy to understand. I don't wanna, I have enough learning curve on learning stitches and designs. I didn't need a huge learning curve on the machine because that means I have two things to overcome. Now, when something is simple and straightforward it, it lets me have more fun with the quilting portion of it. So you're absolutely right. I love what he said, you know, the on the nose right there. Um That's what it is. That transition is the, the comfort, right? It makes it easy. Um You don't want to learn, you know, you want to make it easy to where OK, I got this machine you don't wanna have like, OK, it's gonna take me, you know, a week or a month to understand what it has. The little rebel. You can see that there's no screen on it. You don't have to worry about the lot of electronics and that's, we want to make it again an easy experience for you as your quilting to have make that comfort. You know what you've been using, everybody has on their machine, maybe a slider, right? That, that increases the speed of the machine. This one has buttons. So it does the same thing, right? Um Your stitch length um as well. So and threading if you can, you can see some of the numbers here, I was going to leave that. You can see some of the numbers. This is how easy it is to thread. So we walk you through the threading process. I get into my hands here that's covering some of this. But we put thread markers on here to make the threading easy. So again, when you are moving from one machine to another or like know what little revel is. What I want. That transition from your current machine to this machine is going to be easy. Um You don't have to have hours or weeks, months spent to understand the machine, it's gonna come first nature, which makes that transition even easier for you. And that's, I guess that comfort level, something that we're looking forward to. So it has those features. Um Same with other machines down, we have our start stop down here, then we have the backs stitch up here and then we have this bun here that moves it forward. So we have these buns as well that everybody is used to on their piecing machine. So that again comes integrated, easy to use. Um the thread tension knob right here. It's easy to adjust with numbers. Um So as you can see, as I'm walking through the steps of the machine, it's pretty much what you already have at your house. You know that domestic machine, the machine that doesn't have a lot of screens to it. It just very easy, very basic very fun to use. That's the experience again, when you move to the little that you're gonna enjoy as well. Ok. As a built-in Bob and Winder as a separate motor of the Built in Bob winner. So I don't need the machine, the machine on. Ok, you need the power to it, but I don't need to be running the machine in order for it to wind the Bobbin. I can wind the Bobbin while I'm quilting. I can wind several Bobbins before I start quilting. But this has a built in Bob and Winder, which is really, really easy and I don't know if you can hear that in my mic, but it's spinning and you probably see that right there, right? That has a sensor. If I can put my finger right there, it just stops. OK. So you can see on the sides there. These are optical stopper right here that when the Bobbin fills up, it's gonna stop. So you don't have to manage it or maintain it. You don't have to watch it like a hawk to make sure that it's gonna stop normal. It's gonna stop at the perfect amount to fit in your Bobby case to have that perfect stitch. And again, we want a very easy, fun experience. So built in Bob and win. That's separate, which is huge. Um I know we have, you know, Colleen, I don't know if you've had these before, but um separate Bob and Winders that you have set aside, you can wind your Bob and separately. Right. Yeah. And you have to find another surface to put it on because, you know, most, like you said, most of the surfaces in our studio rooms are already covered and then we have to find another plug in outlet for that Bob and wender and having it on board is so convenient. Right. It, it is, I didn't even think about that when you have your own clothing room. It's another place you have to put it. You know, you're pushing your, your quilt a little bit over or you're moving some fabric off a little table corner so you can put your, I didn't even think about that. That's a very, very good point. Um So yeah, you don't have to do that with this one. It's already on the machine. You're ready to go. The machine is so easy that that's pretty much like those are the features of it. You have your buttons on the side that illuminate up, you have your cue button ready to quilt. And so let's go and look at that as we looked down here at the feet, you noticed it had the piecing foot on there ready to your piecing. So if you are one that takes your machine from piecing to quilting, right? This machine has a handle at the top, I'm gonna pull it up there so you can go ahead and you can hold on to it, take it off, uh your table. We'll get into the QD here in just a moment. But that's how easy it's gonna be to take it from one spot of your room on to the QD frame. Very easy, very easy to do. So that has that, um, like I said, the, uh, the foot that comes on there for piecing. OK. This is how easy it is to take your machine ready to piece to the quilting machine. So I'm gonna go ahead and raise that up. All right. Now it comes with this plate. Now, the plate is what's covering the feed dogs. So I don't need to lower the feed dogs. Now, Colleen, we mentioned as your quilting, right? You need to lower the feed dogs, which everybody will remember to do. Um So this plate right here is what's gonna go over the, the feed dogs and I know it's a little but you guys get the gist. It's, it's just what it is on the plate, ok? It has two, these corners down here and up here are magnetic. So this is how simple it is. I'm gonna go ahead and take this plate. I'm gonna be ready to quilt. So I'm gonna go ahead and bring it forward now as I do this, if we can get the side camera here, Brian, because I'm gonna wash a queue light up. So I'm gonna take this plate, put it right over the the plate that we already have on there where your feed dogs are and you're gonna see the queue light up to indicate to me. All right, I am ready, ready to quilt. So I'm gonna go ahead and take my plate. This is how simple it is. Ok. Now, look at that. There it is. I am ready to quilt and now when you're ready to quilt, I'm gonna bring this down here. So it does come with the hopping foot. So as I go ahead, you can see the hopping foot. So you go ahead and take the foot off your piecing foot and put the hopping foot on. And that is a very simple process as well. We, we've all changed feet before. Um So a very simple process, but now I am ready to quilt. I'm ready to quilt sitting down. I'm ready to quilt standing up. I'm ready to quilt, push quilting. I'm ready to quilt by moving the machine on top of the fabric which we'll get here in a moment. But that's the ideal way of quilting, right? Um Put a, this is gonna be a weird, weird uh a question but put a six in the comment. If you write your name by holding the pen in place and moving the paper. If you're gonna sign your name, any time you write your name or sign your name, put a six in the comment. If you hold your pen still and you move your fabric. I'm hoping that I get zero sixes. But if you do that, that's pretty impressive that you can move that around calling. Are there any sixes? I know people are just maybe coming in or waking up. Are there any sixes coming in? That people write their name? No, no one does their name that direction. No, no, I mean, we're not, we, we're not trained to move the paper. We're trained to move the pen now, going back to it. That's kind of like push quilting and don't get me wrong. I want to make sure people who do push quilt. Great. That's, I mean, if it works, that's perfect. But again, if you push quilt and you're still good at it, don't tell me that you haven't felt the fatigue in your back or your shoulders or your hand, your wrist, your pretty much entire upper body. If you're good at push quilting, you still feel some of that fatigue, um, strain on your shoulders. Right. Calling. I, I, you push quilt, I'm sure you're good at it. You still feel that in your back. Yes. Still to this day when I have to do something small. And I, you know, even if it's just a table top or it's a whole different muscle memory that we don't use that often. So you can only do it for so long. And you're like, I have to go do something else for a while. Yeah, I need a break. Yeah, you're right. So if you're good, that's great. Now, let's look at what this did for us. If you're again sitting down to quilt, if you don't have room again, I'm gonna bring up the cutie here. You can see this system and you can see it sitting on the table. We're going to talk about this beautiful setup, but you can take the little revel however you like to quilt and you're ready to quilt just by putting that plate over that sensor. Now is activated, the queue is activated. I am ready to quilt by pushing my fabric through if that your quilter and you're gonna have that regulation happen. Have you noticed right here on the side of my machine? These buttons are not limited anymore because you don't need these on if you're quilting. So you can see. So if I push this button, nothing is happening. You don't need this speed anymore. Why? Because the speed is coming from you as you move your fabric around that is it plain and simple? You are seeing the fun. The, the true type of quilting when you have that regulation, stitch regulation is key. It is really, really nice. And then again, it is built into the little rebel with that sensor, the optical sensor that's down right at the bottom of the plate. OK. So now that we're ready to quilt, you may say, hey, what if I want to, you know, turn that quilting off and maybe use the foot pedal. If you're like that, I can simply push that QE button. There you go. So even with that plates on that cue, you can see if I press it illuminates, I can press it again. It is off. And now these over here are on so now I can turn the machine up if I wanted to. Ok. And now these ones because I did that, I don't need to worry about that. These are lights that are looming up. So it is easy transition from quilting to piecing again by pushing the button. You're ready to go either way, right? So I'm hoping we are asking some questions at the very beginning. If you're scared of free motion, your foot pedal. I have quilt tops, hopefully by the end of all of this, you're like, you know what I can do it and I want to do it. I love quilting. I've been doing it for a long, long time. Nothing is gonna get in my way. The level is going to make that process easier for you to do as you're push quilting or frame quilting. So let's talk about this here now in a minute or actually not a minute. I'm gonna do it right now. Let's talk about the frame. Quilting Colleen if you don't have space in your room. And I said, hey, Colleen, let's get you a frame and you don't have space. What comes to mind when you hear the word frame, the entire living room taken up by a frame because I live in a small ranch style house. It, it would have to be in my living room. Mhm. I have no space for something huge. So, yeah, that's a, yeah, huge living room. I gotta knock out a wall. I'm waiting for my son or daughter to go to college or whatever the case is to have their room so I can put a frame in your room. Now, frames are ideal, right? If you have space, use it on a frame, on the rolling system is much easier because you have your quilt, everything in front of you. And if you have a king frame, you can do king quilts. If you have a king frame, you can do a king all the way smaller depending on size. What you have will depend on the quilt size. Again, frame, huge may be expensive, right? Quilting is a fun hobby, but it can be expensive. So whatever thought comes to your mind when you want to get a frame, are you ready to transition from push quilting to machine quilting? Moving on top. I'm gonna go back to my analogy of the pen and paper, right? Moving the paper is like our push quilting experience. Moving the machine around the fabric is quilting experience or you may think about it as a long arm experience or just in general. Moving your pen. Think about it this way, the machine is your pen and I'm able to move it around the fabric if I wanted to do designs or circle or feathers now is the time that's easier to do it. So if I want to do circles with this beautiful care system, OK, I can roll it around and do circles. You can't quite tell on there, but I'm actually just moving this in circles, moving it around. Very simple. OK. From the back you see on the front here has handlebar. So you obviously be quilting in front of the machine. However, back here, there's Hanna Bar. So if you're looking to do paragraphs, you can now move the machine and work in the back. So you have both front and rear handles that come with the QD breeze, the QD breeze. I said the word frame, I like to use a Q breeze as an accessory to your machine. That's all this is. It's an accessory in your room because we don't have the space. So let's talk about that here. You can see that this table it's on is just an ordinary table that we just pulled from our studio here. What's ideal is everybody has a folding table of some sort, right? Those two by four, the 2 ft by 4 ft folding tables you have in your quilting room, if not, and you pick one up your local hardware store, right? Has them. You can go get them pretty much anywhere. That is ideal for this two D breeze. That's right. If you're thinking, whoa. Really? Yes, you can put this cutie breeze on a 2 ft wide by 4 ft long table to do your quilting. I'm gonna go a step further talking about your quilting area. You're like, oh, I may not have room for another table, right? How many of you already own? Put a seven, put a seven in the comments. If you already own a table that you use for your cutting or um another feature set in your quilting room, put a seven in the comments if you already have a table. All right. What's nice about the QD? Is this non designated? Meaning I don't have to put it in my quoting room? Ok. I may put it in the kitchen. I may put it in the living room. If you have a basement, you put it in your basement. If you're in an area that the weather is beautiful year round, um You can go ahead and take this outside and quilt outside listening to the birds or whatever else, you can take this li literally anywhere you want. Now, I'm gonna demonstrate, this is just sitting here, so I'm gonna hold the machine so it doesn't slide off. I'm just gonna pick this up. OK? Is just sitting on the table. You can take this anywhere. How many of you guys have an RV? Or you travel or if you take it home, you know, you have one home for the winter, maybe one home for the, for the summer. You can take this anywhere it fit in your car. Now, wives, if you're like, oh, let's go travel or the husband's like, oh, let's go travel and you're like, oh, I got a, I got a lot of cool things I wanna get done. No problem. The QD breeze allows you to go anywhere. We've had people take the rvs if you take them to your second home. So Colleen talking about the word frame again is a big expensive. This cutie fits on a table that you already own in your home. If not, go ahead and put this cutie on top of your cutting table, right? You can put it on top of your dining table, you can put it anywhere that has a flat surface and now you can turn your quilting experience from moving the little rebel on the cutie or over the top of your fabric pretty much anywhere in your home. So if you look at your quilting room, Colleen and you're like, I don't even have room, that's ok because I can actually just put this in the living room and I can quilt for an hour or two. This is easily you saw how easy this was for me to pick up. I can just store this. I can just set it aside and be done with it if I'm done with it. How nice is that, to be totally honest with you. Um, I have one of those kinds of banquet tables and I have set up the cutie frame in my family room. I've put it on my dining room and I can attest to the fact that it's lightweight because I have myself picked it up, put it into the car, taken it somewhere, unloaded it by myself and I'm only 5 ft one, well, maybe one but 5 ft tall. So I, and I'm not a, a bodybuilder of any sort. So it's easily portable, fits in the car. In fact, if I remember correctly, it fit in the back seat of my car. I didn't even have to be in the back of my. So, yeah, yeah, you don't need to get a trailer, a U haul. You can just put it in the car and take it where you want. So you, yeah, you already own one of those tables and like you said, you know, lightweight. Um that's what it is. It's that experience again, you know, as a quilter, you're looking for those fun experiences. You're looking to have a better experience. The Little Rebel paired with the cutie Breeze gives you that experience because I can now quilt anywhere. I have a 13 inch throat machine which is a really nice size throat machine. Um, that isn't taken, you know, uh if you know a lot of the new beginners. If you look at long arms, some of them are that are too long. This is a very comfortable size, um, that gets you in your quilting journey. So the little rebel with the cutie Breeze. So, ok, let's talk about quilt size because it is Colleen, it's only 4 ft wide, right? And they could extend out to 19 inches. So if you have again, a little larger throat that you want to put on, you can, but look at this, you can see it's only four. I mean, I can go my, from one side to another with just my hands. Right. So you may be asking, well, what size of quilt can you do on here? Because I have a few king quilts. I have several queen quilts that looks, I can only do baby. Um, maybe a little more than a baby size is what you start thinking because of the size of the quilt. That is not true. You can do any size of quilts on this 4 ft frame. Right. Exactly. Mind blown. Yep. It has the versatility for moving that quilt over and, and just keep going. I, I would say that the size is pretty much unlimited. You? Yeah, I like that. You're right. Unlimited. So, um, California King is right, what we call kind of those bigger kings that we like to hang lower on our, on our bed. You can do one of those on here going back to the beginning of this Colleen. Right. I mentioned as you're doing larger quilts, I did the whole throwing over your shoulder thing because that's what a lot of quilters do with the space of what they have to do. Their king quilts, they put it over there, their shoulder or they're trying to do something to hang it from their ceiling to keep it off the floor and, and whatever else, unlimited quilting, you can do a king size quilt. Now, this is how it works. We're familiar with embroidery, right? In a way if you've seen embroidery machines or hand quilting, um, when you, it's a frame, right? It's a hoop hoop style frame or like I said, an accessory to the little rubble. So because it's a hoop style, the fabric will drape over all four sides of this frame. And then you can see we have these clips on the sides, we have them in front and we have them in back. So it's going to keep it all nice and taught. Right. Sacrificing the experience of having a rolling rail frame isn't something that we're wanting to do. Right. We want that toughness. We want the fabric nice and taught much like a rolling frame. Keeps everything nice and taught. You need to have a 10 ft frame or a 12 ft frame depending on the size you're looking to do. If you're going to go to California key or smaller and that takes up the space, right? So being a 4 ft frame and a hoop style frame, the fabric will drape over the sides when you're done in your quilt area. That's right here. You're going to then take these clips off. Ok. Take all the clips off, grab your fabric and move it left or right or front to back, depending on where you're at. It's that simple to, to operate. We have these beautiful clips that are back here, ok? Beautiful sturdy strong clips. This is going to act like your fake rolling rail because this rail is fixed and the fabric hangs over the top of it. You don't have the luxury of having a rail that rolls to advance your fabric, right. That's our rolling rail system. That's the frame that you need to have space for without having the space, we need to have that same experience. And so these clips when you move your fabric through the throat of the machine and it starts building up back here, you simply do a soft roll of that, put it inside these clips and we made them this way so that it can be adjusted to the size of quilt that you have and no, they won't break. We've tested these. That's why we have them a lot of hours. Um thousands of hours actually from the engineering team to make sure that this is gonna be perfect for you as you're quilting. So put your fabric through those loops. So now back here in the throat of your machine, you're gonna have a nice roll in these, roll in these, uh, in these clips here to keep it off the, the throat of your machine as you're building it up. So that experience is going to be there for you. So again, the cutie Breeze allows you to hoop it back and forth. Now you're moving the little Rebel, maybe from your piecing or quilting. Or if you already have a piecing machine that you like the little rebel can be your deed cad quilting machine. How I said that, I don't know Colleen when you first started quilting and you were um again, I don't know your whole quilting journey. But did you take maybe your machine from one spot to another and you're constantly moving it back and forth? Well, with that first machine, I didn't move it because when I did move it, the tension would always get thrown off. So it had to stay put. But it was always transitioning, changing it, clearing everything around my studio so that I would have some place to put the fabric, but that means moving everything. So, yeah. Yeah, we don't wanna move everything because then you gotta move everything back back, right? So use the little rebel if you want as your deed ked quilting machine. But if you had to move it off, this is how simple it is to take it. We have our rail through the throat of the machine on the side. Here, we just have a three wing knob that I'm just gonna like twist, OK? And as this comes out, OK, just twist it. So now you can see, I can simply take this rail out of my machine. And now I'm ready to take the rebel and move it to your piecing table if you're looking to piece and when you're ready to quilt, it's that simple. You just put it right back through and you tighten that up and now it's not going anywhere. You can't tell on camera, but I'm actually trying to pull it out. I'm actually shaking it back and forth so it's not going out anywhere. So that's how simple it is to take your machine on and off. Uh the frame extending it, building it all of this we want to have. Now let's talk about the out of box experience. We talked about how easy it is to use a little rebel stitch regulation, threading guides the illuminating buttons built in Bob and wender easy to use. The Cutie Breeze is no exception. Um To that same experience. We out of the box, we eliminated a lot of the steps. Um, from our current Q, which is like will calling says she has our current cutie setting that up was probably fairly easy, but there's a lot of things that you had to do to set it up. The Cutie Breeze only 10 simple steps to get it house looking right in front of me. So again, that experience is not gonna take you a full day to set it up. You can, you know, set it up in the evening time and ready to quilt. You can be ready to quilt over the weekend. Um And have that super enjoyable, fun experience as this dynamic duel in front of me right here. We haven't got a chance to, has there been any kind of comments, questions that we can get to at this time? The best question or the best comment I think for you is that um people are finding it the, the sleek design of the machine they love. And I'm gonna say kudos to the engineer that made putting the, that QD frame together a lot more simple, 10 easy steps, I could handle 10 steps. Yes. Yeah. Your QD frame that you mentioned you have, I think it's actually if I were to say the number, I want to say it's like 21 or 26 steps that you had to do to get that frame put together. So as we just like any great company and we're like, OK, the QD was our first one which has done phenomenal and now we have our QD Breeze which takes it to the next level. So yeah, 10 easy steps to put this one together and the other comment, the other comment. Um I love that the numbering system for the threading. Because I know quilters who literally will leave their machine threaded all at all times and to snip off the, the thread from the spool because they can't remember how to thread it and accidentally well un thread it and then they just panic because then they have to go find the manual or a youtube video to remember how to even thread their machines because they don't do it very often. And this one, everybody learned numbers in kindergarten. So how brilliant just to put the numbers to let us follow that path so that we don't have to spend 20 minutes, go finding a video or the manual on how to thread it. So great engineering there too. Yeah. Well, thank you. And you're right. The sleekness of this machine. I love it too. From the color, you know, it is cast iron. Um So again, the strongness of the frame we want it well built. So cast iron. Um I didn't even get to really talk to you, which I will have, I will hear for a minute is the maintenance of the machine, right? Let's talk about that because again, it's the experience as you can tell from this entire segment. We're talking about the fun, enjoyable experience that we want you to have quilting with a little rebel, moving it on top of the fabric. Or again, if you have to push quilt that is fine as well, but it's ideally moving on top of the fabric, so, maintaining it. Right. It's not ideal to have to take it into a store to get it cleaned, to get it tuned up. This same machine goes through the same building process as our more expensive long arms that same build, quality build for those who are looking to go a little bigger, a little more expensive on the product. That same experience is in our little rebel. Ok. Easy again to maintain. Um Now this is kind of a taboo, right? If I uh with a lot of domestic machines, how do you clean the Bobbin area out? Right? They tell you don't get the air canisters and blow it because what is most likely you gonna do if you blow the air of all that lint, where's that lint? Gonna go further into the machine further into the machine? So now because you're doing that, it may not do anything for the first little bit, but over time as you do that, that's when you, now you got to take your machine in to get it cleaned out, get it tuned up and you're ready to go again on your clothing journey. The little rebel is sealed ball bearing on the inside. Ok. The Bobbin is front loader so you can see the open area here. This is where the Bobbin is, so it's in the front. Ok. And it is sealed. So there is a plate uh uh I'm actually tapping it back there. Ok. There's nothing back there other than a sealed plate. So if I wanted to sure go ahead and get down there and blow that area out. Ok? Just make sure your face isn't in the way because that is gonna bounce right back off that back wall and maybe come right back at you. So yeah, clean it out. Do what you want, you blow in it, get the air canister, you have the, uh, little brush, right? Whatever you need to do to get that area cleaned out. So, yeah, that's a good shot right there. So that's where the, um, the M class B is big opening. So it's easy to take out. But I just love that. You don't have to worry about where your l from your thread is gonna go when you're done, it is not going to travel into the machine. Ok? Now, ball bearing that same experience, you know, all the moving parts of the little rebel is going to stay lubricated. That's what ball bearing means, right? Wanna stay lubricated. So as you're quilting, you don't need to worry about. Ok? And I gotta take it in, they gotta take this apart. No, you don't have to take this apart, uh, to, to, um, add a service technician. What's nice about all this Colleen is you at home can maintain this machine all by yourself. That's right. All by yourself. You just simply need to oil it. Ok. Oil, the bob and hook. And we've all done that. I just dropped my, uh, back here. My, uh, little, let's get this because I won't be a hair of Colleen. Hold on one minute. Yeah. Having to take a machine out of, uh, of your sewing area and to take it to a, a technician. Number one means time away from your machine. Number two, you have to find a technician that you trust. And I just hate to have my machine out of my studio. If I can maintain it myself, uh, you've just saved me a lot of money. Yeah. And it's easy. You don't have to like, ok, what do I need to do? No, just two simple steps. Oil the bob and hook, which again, we've all done with our, with our domestic machines. Or if you haven't, it's really good to do oil the bob and hook and then you oil the needle bar and up top. It will show you how to oil the needle bar. That is it? Very simple. If you do that, it will be a well oiled machine. It's gonna take care of you. You take care of it. It will take care of you and you're good to go for many, many, many hours. Um, ok. Colleen, I know we're approaching our time. I'll sum it up real quick. The little revel, right. 13 inch of awesomeness in your throw space. Quilting simply by moving the plate over the, uh, feed dogs, right? You don't have to lower the feed dogs. You put that plate right over the top, it then triggers the cue button. You're ready to quilt. Built in stitch regulation, built in Bob and Winder thread guide to help you thread and maintain. Um, so you don't have to worry about, like call him, said, have it threaded and then you cut it because I want to change the thread. You're gonna tie it together, pull that through because we've all done that. No, like Colin said, you can actually, now, just when you're done changing your thread, pull it all the way through and you can reread it yourself and have that fun experience on the cutie breeze frame. It is a 2 ft by 4 ft frame. Any size of quilting. You, California King, your king queen. Smaller. It doesn't matter the experience you're gonna have is going to be what matters most and have the ability to do large quilts. Get your quilt tops out there. Don't wait another day. Um, if you have 5 10, I didn't even get into the number, but I'm sure there are a lot of numbers coming through of how many quilt tops that you had. If you have a lot of quilt tops. Don't wait. Ok. Get your quilt tops ready. Get the little rebel. Um, so you can do all your quilting and have fun. Um, calling if there's any more other thoughts or questions to get you. Great. But I know it's gonna be coming back to you here because we are at the tail end of what we're doing, think, you know, the, the rebel really does have the capability that a lot of us as quilters are looking for that frame, I think would fit into just about everyone's home somewhere. And it gives us that ability to go from start to finish all ourselves as quilters that we don't have to um take and quilt by check so that we can actually do that process ourselves. We are so glad that you came and talked about the rebels and the grace frames that we could have uh up close and personal view of the machine and all its capabilities. Remember um for our community out there, we have the downloadable um edge to edge quilting design. So it gives you some inspiration. Maybe you want to put one of those machines in order and start practicing your edge edge designs and we are glad that you joined us today. Thanks everyone.