Originally Posted by
406BA
I've been quilting for awhile, but still consider myself to be a beginner! Just bought a used Bernina and the former owner said not to use cotton thread as Berninas do not like cotton. This doesn't fit with all other advice I've ever read about quilting, i.e. use cotton thread for cotton fabric. I've used Connecting Threads cotton for other projects with my old Brother machine with no problem. I would appreciate any advice from other Bernina owners!
When I bought my first Bernina (1630), I had people tell me all sorts of stuff starting with "Berninas don't like . . ." I never found any of it to be true. I've used a cotton, rayon, mettallic, sliver, nylon, poly, just about any thread you can think of with my Berninas over the last 30 years. I did have to drop my top tension WAY down when using sliver or it would break but other than that I don't remember having to even adjust much for any of the threads.