Originally Posted by
Granpaquilts
My only question here would be --- if it's the moisture that makes sewing with ( what could be nothing more than old thread ) easier --- then what happens when the quilt is done and the moisture goes away? You still have old thread in your quilt and have defeated the purpose, I would think.
I don't think we were specifically speaking about OLD thread, just thread that was not behaving well as it was going through the machine, i.e. breakage. The friend I had mentioned earlier had purchased the thread directly from the manufacturer only a few weeks before using it to quilt.
No one seems to know exactly why this works, the moisture theory was just that - a theory.