Help! Color choice for threads.
 

Do you think it would look to bad to meander quilt the dark fabric with white thread? I play to meandering around the applique shapes in white. And wondered if an allover white would look bad on the maroon?

very cute quilt

I would probably play safe, meander round the appliqué in cream and change to maroon for the border �� Btw I am a bit ocd bout colours and before I started quilting everything was matchy matchy lol. I am better now honest X

Thank you! I am worried that the white thread will stand out too much on the dark fabric. That it will take away from the applique, so I am going to try and use two different colors. My worry is I have trouble with tensions and the thread is two different threads. This will sure test my average machine quilting ability! ;-)

What a cute quilt. I made a maroon and white quilt for a MS State fan friend of mine. I used maroon thread. Either would do fine with your quilt. White will lighten the maroon and maroon will darken the white. Both will pull it together.

I think this is what I will do. I think it will look better that white thread on dark fabric. Plus any boo boo quilting stitches will sure stand out. Hope I can do bobbin tension on two different threads. ;-) Thanks for the reply!

The backing is made up of fabrics from the quilt. It is going to be a wall hanging. :-)

that is an adorable quilt! I love it great job. I think either way you will look nice. So often I tend to go with variegated threads for quilting. Its not always easy to find a match though. Pictures make it hard to match colors, but King Tut has some very pretty variegated threads. Chalice, Sphinx, and Sarah Shadows are very nice - but not sure how close those colors actually are to your fabric I am sure there are other brands of variegated threads that have nice colors as well

How cute is that?!?!?!

Thank you! It was fun to make. Thinking how to quilt it, not so much. ;-)

Thank you! It was fun to make! How to quilt it not so much!

Thank you!

You could always use both... meander white on the white and buy a spool of maroon of some shade and meander maroon on the maroon......

Thank you! That is what I am going to do. Just hoping tension is my friend today. :-)

I would outline each of the blocks with whatever color looks best. Stitch in the ditch with a color that won't show. As Tartan said, it matters what your backing is. Beginners should usually use the same in the bobbin and one top.

Very awesome quilt. I can't help with thread. I would try to match.

how about meandering in maroon in the white and white in the maroon.

I quilted a hunters star quilt with off white thread using a pantograph so it was all over my colors were red and white.

I do it all the time...it will look fine, just keep the size of the meander the same... Are you doing this on your home machine? If so, why not use chalk and mark straight lines around the outer borders...and stitch them. I'd also do a squiggly line on the seams of the sashing to secure each block/sashing color. This is a very cute quilt.

I seem to always be the devils advocate, but I would quilt all over with the maroon on the front, and match your backing with the thread for that side.

I just love your quilt. It's adorable. Can't answer your question about white thread. I'm sure others on the Board can help you.

I think it depends on your fmq skills. If you do the white thread on the maroon fabric the fmq will show up up quite a bit. My fmq is "OK", but not great, so I would use white thread on the squares, crossing over from one to another with a slow fmq stitch in the ditch between the corner squares of each block and the sashing. Then I'd use maroon thread on the maroon fabric. I always try to match top thread and bobbin thread and since it's a wall hanging there won't be a lot a people checking out the back.

I would go with variegated as well. It would be wonderful! And now, having said that, I hope you can find colors that go. If not, I would go with cream.

Also, I LOVE the colors you picked. I shy away from pastels for a kid. They like rich colors too.

If this were my quilt, I'd definitely use the same color thread on back and front--it's so frustrating to have a bit of the other color showing through to the other side if the tension is off even a hair! And as a wall hanging, it would rarely be seen and anyway would look fine.

I'd outline each of the inner designs with thread matching the white/cream background and staying 1/16-1/8" from the edge, filling in the light area with a tight stipple/meander. I'd break thread for each one--it's only 12-14 thread pairs to bury later (14 if the bib and carriage white inner areas are done separately). A tight wavy line in the small white border would set off the squares. I'd try a dark grey or even deep green in the maroon border so the design would be visible but not intrusive; maybe straight lines, or meander, or even free form flowers. (See blog The Inbox Jaunt for some ideas for easy free motion designs.) And I'd try out all these ideas on scraps first, to make sure my mental vision translates well to fabric.!

Have fun sewing, and know whatever you do will look great in the end, because if you hate a portion you can frog it and change to something else! And you've done such a good job so far, you obviously have good design sense.

Your quilt is really cute. All sorts of combinations would look nice. I would want a color matching the background in the squares to not take away from the cute appliques but I would want the quilting to stand out on the border which appears to be a solid or near solid. So, I would go light or varigated light for whatever motif you choose. If you haven't chosen your backing I would go with something light so as to accommodate matching thread on top and bobbin. We would like to see the finish.

I don't like light color thread for all over quilting on dark fabrics. It looks like the quilt was quilted to just get it done.

Thank you!

Thank you!!

I am thinking that also..it was a lot of work to give that impression! Thank you!

Thank you everybody for your responses!! I thought I was responding to each person..but maybe not. :-/ I do appreciate everyone taking the time to respond. :-) I am thinking about each one and tomorrow, I am going to "just do it". :-) I will post a picture of the finished quilting. It was a fun baby quilt to make. I bought the fabric from a store in Lubbock Texas, they had packages of fabric for Texas Tech, Texas and A&M. :-)

So adorable!! Have you considered a grey or variegated maroon/grey/cream?