Pre-printedquilt top
 

Has anyone hand quilted a pre-printed top with embrodiary thread? Were you happpy with it. I have one that is about the color of our regular qb pages(lt lt tan)
and I would like to do it in brown. All suggestions are welcome.

INHO, you will not be happy trying to quilt with embroidery thread. You can buy brown quilting thread. I'd try that first!

I have quilted pre-printed tops with Knit CroSheen crochet thread. I made the stitches a little bigger than regular hand quilting stitches. I liked the way it turned out.

Severa years ago I saw (in a show) one of the "Pennsylvania Folk Art" preprinted quilt top quilted in several different colors of thread. It was beautiful. The quilter used regulr hand quilting thread for the quilting of the motifs and off white for the grid.

I have done it several times and loved it. I am not a follower of the perfect quilter ruls club though lol,I do use a bigger stitch too :)

I used a pre-printed panel with a Pennsylvania Dutch motif that I got at Jo-Ann's so that I could learn how to hand quilt. I used regular Hand quilting thread, which is a little more dense than regular thread, and had so many flowers that I could keep quilting or stop at any point, and it would still look complete.

Then I found a site that showed how to do continuous prairie points - which are so much fun (!) and added that to the quilt.
This may be my favorite quilt so far.

Re: the embroidery thread. I have embroidered since childhood and still do - a lot. As you pull embroidery thread through your fabic you may find that it has a tendency to shred. I have only found this recently, in the last few years. This is something to consider.

You might also want to look at the cost of embroidery thread to quilt a whole quilt. There aren't that many yards of thread in a skein of floss.

I love them, but I can't imagine going through a quilt sandwich with embroidery thread! For my last project, I didn't have any stabilizer, so I just used some scrap cotton and it was so difficult to get it through! And that's without batting! Those needles aren't designed to do that! And the thread broke way too much. I'm glad it was a small project!

Embroidery thread or floss? Isacord is a 40wt machine embroidery thread and it is one of my all time favorites to use in the Longarm and I imagine it would work just fine hand quilting.
But if you are talking embroidery floss, the 6 strand stuff that comes in skeins commonly used for hand embroidery I can think of easier things to use to acheive the look you want. I think it would fray and break easily having to pull through all the layers unless you slid it down the needle a tad with every needleful of stitches. I have used 3 strands of floss and tied a quilt and it worked well but even with 3 strands and tying I had a lot of breakage from the strain put on it going through all those layers.

I am working on a white whole cloth quilt top now. My husband wanted me to quilt it with black quilting thread (I hand quilt). I can see my little black knots thru the white fabric and I am not real happy about that, but it is a pretty quilt top. It is called Welsh Beauty. I have another one that is called Feathered Pineapple it is white too. I am going to back it with a light yellow and quilt it with yellow thread.

I would try with a 20-30 weight thread. I have seen a quilt top where the maker used the heavier thread the it turned out great, better than embrodiery thread.

Yes, I have and do use pre-printed patterns. I use #8 pearl cotton to embroider the pieces and have never had a problem with the printed color......I use whatever I want. I do iron a "sheer fusible innerfacing on the back and find that adds a wee bit of stability without stiffness and hides my back threads....it also keeps the sides from fraying.......

I often use embroidery thread especially when outlining a fabric design, I have always been happy with it.

My morning fairy was done with embroidery thread see attached.[ATTACH=CONFIG]321289[/ATTACH]

I have done a quilted wall hanging using perle cotton embroidery thread and big stitch to get it a "folk art" type of look. I used number 8 perle cotton because I have a lot of it but use what you have.

You did a beautiful job on this little fairy quilt...