Originally Posted by
Skittl1321
Thanks for the recommendation: have you had any breakage issues with it? The design will require a lot of travel stitching, so that is a worry with a 'cheap' thread.
No breakage. Loads of travelling. On the quilt pictured here it is the green and the blue thread.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t230619.html
The quilt measures 90 x 90 or therabouts. You can see I did quite a bit of heavy quilting in the green with all that back and forth fill behind the diamonds. I barely put a dent in the small 1000 meter cone. The white in this quilt is glide. I used magnaglide bobbins so didn't use any of this thread in the bobbin. I went through about 20 magnaglide bobbins so that would increase my usage of cone considerably. I just went and checked how much glide is on a magnaglide delight bobbin. I went through 20 so this quilt used approximately 2,640 yards for just the bobbin, double that for both so a bit over 5,000 yards (which is close enough to a meter we can practically interchange the measurements in this example). I would probably classify this quilt as medium amount of quilting. There is some pebbling in the center and the backfill in the green I would consider heavily quilted.
If you went through 6000 meters on a 48" square, I would say that is probably VERY heavily quilted and in places flirting with thread painting. Of course loads of traveling will do that too, like lots and lots of pebbling.