Originally Posted by
rumizgirl
hello all,
any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
doing my first quilt, a tshirt quilt. i i have no idea how to hand quilt and my "borrowed from my mother" sewing machine is too small....so after many you tube videos i decided on tie knotting the quilt.
i have bought embrodiery floss, yearn, and crochet string and a variety of needles from quitting to the curved ones.
the first 5 times i tried, all the diff yarns and strings because none of them would go thought the fabric layers and the needle broke. ive tried all combinations of needles and strings.....the needle has a hard time going thru ...even the big ones who left gapping holes in my quilt top.
im sure i am doing something wrong! any advice would help me greatly.....please!
I've broken needles before------------but certainly not every time and certainly not with every type of thread. My preferences are embroidery floss----------all 6 strands or just 3 even. Perle cotton. And smaller crochet cotton.
Something we're not understanding has to be wrong. I've even used a needle nosed pliers to pull needles thru and seldom break one.
You need a very sharp needle------with a good sized eye----------but only as big as needed for the thread you use.