Freckles48

I have done a queen sized D9P and quilted it with big-stitch quilting. I am machine quilting a Craftsy BOM from 2012 and am going to do big stitch in the sashing and the border. Been doing it some time at a volunteer quilters group and it really can be used anywhere all over or just where you want it. Have a friend who does beautiful work with it.

tropit

Oooohhh...that would look nice. What kind of thread? Do you use big ole upholstery needles?

beaglelady

I was thinking I would use 12wt perle cotton, mainly because I have a whole bunch of it I bought on sale at a quilt show I went to. But maybe that will be too thick - I will have to experiment and see how it looks. I use a size 8 embroidery needle when I use the perle cotton for redwork but that size would probably be too big to quilt with. I guess it will be trial and error. ha ha

Emmaj1045

Hi. I did big stitch quilting using perle thread recently on a child's quilt and I thought it looked quite effective. You can see the front and back here.

beaglelady

Wow! I love that Emmaj1045! Your quilting looks great and it really adds a wonderful appearance to the quilt. You have inspired me!

gram2five

Ooooh, how cute. The large quilting stitches really look great.

Kitsie

I've been doing it without knowing it was a technique! Really like the look of it. Easy to do and makes the quilt go fast. Mixes well with machine quilting, too, such as SID.

Rodney

Here's a link to some sashiko thread.
http://www.shiboridragon.com/Sashiko-Thread.htm
The site's description compares it to #8 pearl cotton.
I'll be watching with interest. It's a similar subject to my wanting to know about quilting with larger thread sizes.
Rodney

gale

I love this technique. I think it looks so cool. And if I hand quilted I would have to do this because my hands don't work well enough to make tiny stitches. It's like a pass for us bad hand quilters. LOL.

SewExtremeSeams

Same here!