Minky showing through
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Minky showing through
I have a quilt on the LA, pieced cotton on top, quality poly batting and minky on bottom. The top has a lot of yellow and the minky is chocolate brown. I have quilted a lot of quilts with the same fabrics. The brown minky seems to be showing up on the top stitch, you can see a lot of brown along with the yellow thread I am using. I have changed to a new 18 needle, didn't help and then changed to a 20 needle. I have adjusted tension and bobbin but still seems to be showing through. I am desperate, need to get this quilted, does anyone have any advise.
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Sounds like the minky “fuzz” is getting pulled up to the top. I think if you change to a needlepunched cotton batting such as Warm and Natural, or add a thin layer of Quilters Dream cotton next to the backing, underneath the polyester batting, there would be enough resistance to prevent the issue. You could also try changing to a size 16 needle. The smaller the needle hole, the more resistance to pulling Foxx to the top.
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Sounds like the minky “fuzz” is getting pulled up to the top. I think if you change to a needlepunched cotton batting such as Warm and Natural, or add a thin layer of Quilters Dream cotton next to the backing, underneath the polyester batting, there would be enough resistance to prevent the issue. You could also try changing to a size 16 needle. The smaller the needle hole, the more resistance to pulling Foxx to the top.
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I machine quilted a pink and black baby top with minky (white with primary colored circles) as a backing and found that a layer of pre-shrunk white flannel between the minky and quilt top stopped the migration of the minky fibers.
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Thanks for the advise. DH was helping me and we did some adjusting of the bobbin (loosening it a bit) changed to a spool of King Tut thread and adjusted the tension. It helped a lot, not the best but it worked well enough to finish the quilt. I did not think it was the batting since the minky was showing. I do a lot of quilting with minky on the back and never had this problem. I will change the batting if I have this problem again.
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