This information has been quite helpful and may have helped me make up my mind on how I am going to handle my flannel quilt top. It is made of that heavy weight flannel and I am using warm and natural for the bat and a lighter weight flannel for the back. The pattern is a big block and the fabrics are darker and kind of men's ware looking in many cases. I was hoping to quilt it on my home machine and feather stitch the "ditches". It is too heavy to handle. SOOOOOO my next thought was to feather stitch the "ditches" by hand using pearl thread, kind of like of "crazy quilt" fashion. I had planned to use a larger needle and not try to get really small with my stitches. Am I headed for trouble???