Originally Posted by Jan in VA

Joellyn, I actually disagree. Back in the 1990s I took a class at the Houston International Quilt Festival with....(oh good grief, I have just drawn a blank on her name!!) Anyway, this instructor did interesting embellishments on her quilts at that time and she taught us to use YLI's Jeans Stitch thread to quilt with, even if we didn't use it for the whole quilt.

Since then, it reminds me of big stitch quilting and I've used it several times on quilts, especially smaller ones. By machine using a metallic OR top stitch needle. I increase the stitch length just a little bit, too.

I still have Jeans Stitch thread I bought all those years ago and it's good.

Jan in VA