How to do twilling
 

Recently while on a Shop Hop, I came across a new technique called TWILLING. The shop owner had kits made up to sell, but didn't have written instructions, she did show me how it was done. But after getting home I couldn't remember how to do it. It is something on the order of the old Chicken Scratch stitch (think that was the name of it), been looking for instructions on line with no success. Does anyone know where to find a video of how to do it? Would love to use it on quilt blocks for old fashion looking quilt with '30's fabric.

i googled 'how to do twilling' and this was the first one to come up http://beetreedesigns.blogspot.com/2...-patterns.html

Interesting, I'd never heard of twilling before.

NeedlenThread.com has a tutorial on twilling. It is also called palestrina stitch I believe. I saw a demonstration on twilling at a quilt show I attended a few weeks ago and it interested me too. One of the quilts was done in twilling, simple designs but a beautiful piece of art. Believe I will have to try it now that the weather is turning cooler.

Is it a type of thick blanket stitch?

Huh. Who knew. I always associated "twilling" with a paper craft where paper strips are tightly curled to make beautiful pictures! :D

that's what i had thought, too, as my mother used to do that. i had to look it up to see how it related to quilting :)

quilling is paper wrapped tightly to make designs. I didn't know it at the time, I was bored at wook and used to make pictures out of thin strips. Then I saw the beautiful things you can make. so pretty. google quilling, you'll see it.