Bohn needles are good also. Wool batting is quilting heaven

i use a size 9 needle and warm & natural batting.

I want a large eye needle and that is hard to find. Although, 'large eye' is somewhat an oxymoron

A batting I highly recommend for hand quilting is Quilter's Dream cotton. I don't remember what they call the thinest one but it quilts like butter. It doesn't have any scrim and is really soft. When I hand quilted I really liked the John James or the Roxanne size 11 needles.

Yes, I heard about the Dream batting...bought a pkg a few years ago and forgot I had it...will have to use it too!!!

I just remembered another consideration - how closely do you want to hand quilt?

Mountain Mist requires a quilting line every 2 inches. Other battings can be quilted at wider intervals. If it's a project that you don't want to quilt heavily, make sure your batting allows that.

A lot of you really like the wool batting! Must be good! I guess you get what you pay for sometimes huh? I have some ...been saving it for a special quilt I make....can't wait to give it a try!

Ok...on the size 11 needles you are using...are they sharps, straw, betweens, etc?

I would like to quilt heavily...but I do a lot of hand applique and if I go around the hand applique there may be areas that are wider than 2 inches. So the Mountain Mist may not be good for a hand applique quilt do you think? I know when I cross hatch it would probably be fine.

Betweens.

For hand quilting I always use betweens. These are the shortest needles and perfect for my quilting technique.