Using colored thread to quilt on white backing?
#11
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Originally Posted by kwhite
I love to SEE the quilting even on the back. Even if it isn't perfect (show me one that is) I think go with the color.
I machine (domestic) quilt. I think the stitches create their own design and I enjoy the art on the back of the quilt when it is finished.
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Originally Posted by #1piecemaker
Has anyone ever used a dark colored thread to quilt a quilt using white backing? Is this even done? One of my quilting girls told me her mama told her to always use thread the color of the backing. Well, the top I'm quilting is the one on my avatar. Deep purple. And, my backing is white. What do you think? Should I use purple thread or white to quilt it?
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Originally Posted by dsb38327
Originally Posted by kwhite
I love to SEE the quilting even on the back. Even if it isn't perfect (show me one that is) I think go with the color.
I machine (domestic) quilt. I think the stitches create their own design and I enjoy the art on the back of the quilt when it is finished.
#16
I'm doing one with red thread on top and the backing is a white on natural print with white bobbin thread.
Most of the backing looks very good, but I learned a lesson with this one - to clean out the bobbin area extra well before starting.
The machine was acting up and throwing tiny red loops here and there on the bobbin side of the quilt. That's not normal for that machine, and I should have investigated but I didn't. I just kept adjusting tensions, thinking I wasn't balanced well enough.
Finally, I removed the needle plate and there was a blanket of lint around the feed dogs, even though I had been careful to brush out and blow out from underneath every time I changed the bobbin. Once I got that lint out of there, she settled right down and didn't give me a single hiccup for the rest of the quilt.
I'm hoping that laundering will pull out the worst of the red "pokies" on the back side.
Most of the backing looks very good, but I learned a lesson with this one - to clean out the bobbin area extra well before starting.
The machine was acting up and throwing tiny red loops here and there on the bobbin side of the quilt. That's not normal for that machine, and I should have investigated but I didn't. I just kept adjusting tensions, thinking I wasn't balanced well enough.
Finally, I removed the needle plate and there was a blanket of lint around the feed dogs, even though I had been careful to brush out and blow out from underneath every time I changed the bobbin. Once I got that lint out of there, she settled right down and didn't give me a single hiccup for the rest of the quilt.
I'm hoping that laundering will pull out the worst of the red "pokies" on the back side.
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
I almost always hand quilt with a color to compliment the top and show on the back. I feel it gives me two quilts for the effort of one that way....sort of makes it "whole cloth" looking on the back, you know? Why shouldn't a quilt have two sides?!
Jan in VA
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What you *could* do is use the lighter pink as the thread, so it shows but "not too much".
I have done darker thread in my earlier days of quilting and it did not turn out as spectacular as I planned. If you're fairly good at quilting, the dark would work. But it WILL show, KWIM?
I have done darker thread in my earlier days of quilting and it did not turn out as spectacular as I planned. If you're fairly good at quilting, the dark would work. But it WILL show, KWIM?
#19
Match the front, and let it show on the back! Never mind what someone else's mama said! As long as you like it! If you are not sure about liking it, do some basting stitches both ways, just enough to see the colors on both sides.
#20
Originally Posted by #1piecemaker
I guess I should have said that I am quilting this by hand!! My stitches are pretty good when I take my time. But, not perfect by any means. I hate to take out what I've done and start over. Hind sight!!!
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