Golden Threads Paper User Question
#22
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Ocala, FL
Posts: 194
Another of the beauties of Golden Thread paper is that you can make copies of your design. Simply draw your design on one piece, cut out up to 10-15 pieces the same size, stack them up with your design on top. Using a #16 needle and no thread in your machine, free motion stitch around your design through all of the sheets of paper. Pull them apart and you have up to 15 copies of your design to place on your quilt. This works best on the simpler designs, especially feathers, as you can go nuts trying to decide which dots to follow. I also like to use it on borders. You don't have to use math to get the pattern to match length of your border. I just do strips of pattern and place them on the border, then look at how much space I have left and cut up my paper strips to stretch out the design. Easy.
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lumby, British Columbia
Posts: 2,769
These papers are not the same. Silver threads is see through and very thin. Another good substitute is tracing paper from the dollars store. I've used it successfully for paper piecing. Have not tried for machine quilting yet.
#26
Very Interesting, as a new quilter and not experienced at all in hand quilting. Is this to mark your quilt for hand quilting or machine or both? When you lay it on your quilt do you just pin or do you use something else to keep it in place? You have my curiousity. Thanks for all this great info.
#27
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,231
Very Interesting, as a new quilter and not experienced at all in hand quilting. Is this to mark your quilt for hand quilting or machine or both? When you lay it on your quilt do you just pin or do you use something else to keep it in place? You have my curiousity. Thanks for all this great info.
Get a practice sandwhich and try it with copy paper, just to see...it will tear off, but not as easily as newsprint, but you can get an idea of how it goes. Shorten your stitch length, too.
You can find hundreds of free quilting motifs with a google image search. I like the coloring pages for themed quilts..just google image "free coloring pages", then add what you're looking for, like flag, bird, etc...the possibilities are endless! Give it a whirl! Good luck!
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Kenai, Alaska
Posts: 1,150
My Viking dealer sold me a roll (8" wide and 200 ft. ) of Stitch & Ditch Stabilizer when I asked about Golden Threads paper. This is a lot cheaper and more of it. It can be used for embroidery and quilting and paper piecing. Use one layer and transfer--trace--the quilting pattern to the quilt surface. Stitch and then remove by tearing it away. The instructions advice to baste it to the quilt but we used adhesive spray or pins at our class.
#29
Golden Threads is semi transparent, thin, holds it's shape but is brittle enough to tear away clean. There are many substitutes to use but you'll never know how good one of the subs are unless you try the original first.
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