Originally Posted by
Jan in VA
I feel you are over-thinking this.
It really is okay; I promise people will be seeing the overall look of your quilt, not individual stitches of the piecing. (And if a quilt police shows up, remind them you have no prior 'history' and can walk away from them this time
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Try a gray thread, as DakotaMaid suggested, if you want to, but I've been quilting for over 30 years and have used an ecru thread for about 80% of all my piecing for all that time. I also use a looser stitch length that you have here.
Jan in VA
Jan, you are flat out amazing. I've learned more in the last fifteen minutes than in the last two years. Keep on posting!!