stupid question.....having a duh moment
 

i have been quilting for over 20 years so i feel so stupid asking this but i have never made a 2 color quilt....using solid white and solid black to make a houndstooth quilt....should i use white or black thread....and yes i know to press to the dark..having a brain lapse or something here...or maybe its a week with 6 kids and no hubby home that fried my brain...help lol

Well, I don't know the answer to this. I will be checking to see what others say...I am thinking gray?


Dina

duh yeah why didn't i think of that...i have plenty of gray...i will wait to see what others say to make sure

I thought gray too. Only because I've read it on here before.LOL They say it will blend in.

I'd use grey, too. If you have places where you are sewing white to white (and it's not a black& white print) I'd probably switch to white thread, but if you have black and white sewing together, grey is good.

My first choice would be white.

I would use either the gray or the white. I tend to use white a lot no matter what color the pieces are as I use a fast array of them in most quilts. The real question will be what thread color to use when you quilt it together. There I would use wither gray or a totally different color such as red, or teal if you want the quilting design to show. Otherwise there too I'd use gray if you just want the quilting to blend in.

Phyllis
QuiltingGrannie
Quilter's Pantry

I would use a dark grey with fine thread. My preference is Superior's Masterpiece 50 wt thread

I would use RED, works for both.

I'm just so impressed that you could construct a coherent sentence, what with 6 kids and no hubby home!! :) Oh, and I agree with those who say gray thread....

I am doing a black and white quilt right now. It doesn't matter if I have black or white thread in the machine. Either is better than grey.

I also sew so I do have to change thread with that. Lucky me the things I am sewing on now are either black or white.

Too funny.

ali

Try a sample or two with black, gray and white...see what you like best. any of them will do. Good luck and be sure to post your work when finished....we can't wait to see.

I would do it with gray as it blends with anything just about.

I just made a black and white Yellow Brick Road and I pieced with white. I tend to use white for all my piecing. I also did the quilting with white and I wish I had chosen differently for that. It looked too stark against the black fabrics. I would probably go with a grey for the quilting or if I could have found a white and black variagated, I might have gone with that.

do you have any monofilament thread? It's clear and will not show at all. I have found it's hard to use sometimes. Otherwise I use off white. It seems to blend better when I piece.

a color thread that will show on both colors then it won't look half quilted even tho it will be.

Grey sounds good. Or black on the black and white on the white....

I, too, would use grey.