Originally Posted by kbiederman
I am a new quilter, and this is probably not what you are supposed to do, but has worked so well for me. I buy inexpensive, but good quality individual flat sheets for the size quilt I need it for, and it works wonderfully for me!! Good luck!!
Sheets work very well.
For handquilting, they are too many threads per inch to hand quilt easily.
Regarding needles: if you use a Jeans size needle 16/90 up to 18/100 ... extremely sharp, which is exactly what you need to stitch woven fabric.
If you are sewing on knitted fabric, you would use a ball point needle to avoid breaking the threads, but these needles will not work on woven fabric as efficiently as a sharp needle works on cotton (woven fabric). <wave>