Color of thread to use for quilting

[quilts4charity]

I love variegated thread and use it all the time on my quilts if they have lots of colors in them.

[sandy l]

I do a lot of scrap quilts, so varigated thread is the best choice for me

[ppquilter]

There are some nice variagated thresds out there!

[irishrose]

I like variegated if I can get in the right colors. I like a base color in other areas. I changed thread at least 8 times on one quilt, bit usually can get by with 2 or 3. I was thread painting the animals on the wildlife quilt, so it took a lot of changes. The quilt I just finished had red areas with scrappy, yellow areas with scrappy and then white areas, so those were my three colors. The red was variegated red to white. I kept a cream color in the bobbin for all. I don't mind changing top thread, but I try not to change the bobbin.