redstilettos

I have an embroidery machine.....with a Ton of beautiful colors.

Has anyone used embroidery thread in their longarm to quilt with?

What do you think?

Cari-in-Oly

Yes and it worked beautifully in my HQ Avante. I used it in the bobbin as well as on top.

Cari

IceLeopard

I tried but the thread kept breaking.

dunster

I use a lot of the tri-lobal embroidery threads from this place on the longarm - https://metroemb.com/store/index.php?route=common/home

QuiltnNan

i suppose that it depends what your thread is made of. some are so fragile, especially if it is old.

redstilettos

My thread is only about 2 years old. No problem with breakage on my embroidery machine. I'm tempted to try it out, but just not sure if I'll like the shean on a quilt or not.
Hm....

FabQuilter

Will have to try FMQ w embroidery thread on my long arm machine

Also I saw demonstrations w beautiful (glow in the dark) variegated thread used at the Houston Quilt show on long arm machines
The result was amazing .

feline fanatic

I believe Glide was originally marketed as an embroidery thread until Karen McTavish and a couple of other big names discovered it and got the word out. Now they market mostly to quilters but it is a 40wt trilobal polyester. I use glide almost exclusively. I have also used Isacord which is also considered an embroidery thread and the metro/Sigma thread that Dunster linked to. I love the shiny thread in my quilts. It does not overpower and looks beautiful and I find it much stronger than many threads. There is also the added bonus of no lint like is produced from 100% cotton.

Jaiade

Now that you mention it, I'm looking and more than half of my thread is embroidery thread, various brands. At first some were too shiny. For some reason I'm not a fan of glide. I have some, but don't use it very much. Although I did just find some 60 wt. at the LQS. If this comes in colors, I'm in. I won't mind it in the bobbin.
IceLeopard some time you really have to play with the tention to get them to work. I don't have a lot of patience with tention even on the DSM. I can usually use any thread without changing the tention, except metro. When I first started using it I lost patience with it and put it away. Then it had a color I needed, so I worked with it until I got it right. But I hardly ever use it.

Rhonda K

I have used EMB thread (Exquisite, Floriani) to quilt on a regular machine. No issues. I also use pre-wound bobbins for the bobbin thread in piecing. No issues.