Originally Posted by mollymct
But, yay! I am done with most of my cutting for the three rag quilts I am making as Christmas gifts. I have been falling out of love with the idea as the cutting seemed never to end! I am waiting on the top fabric for the girl quilt and need to order some pink flannel for the back of hers, also.
I can start the two boy quilts, though! I need to make a thread run and probably need some new needles. What needle should I use in my machine for these quilts? (Each will be three equal sized layers of flannel). And is there any special reinforcing I should do for a rag quilt? Or will a straight line of stitching do?
I used a regular needle. Did my lines in an x then around the block backstitching at the end and begining of my line. Be careful cutting and using spring loaded scissors really helps. In squares that I appliqued, I didn't bother with the x.