Question about hand quilting
#4
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Chula Vista CA
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I buy hand quilting thread, can remember the brand right now, but I usual mark with masking tape. If it is curved then I use a special quilting pencil. It is a mechanical pencil for marking quilts and it was given to me many years ago.
#6
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Central NJ
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I primarily use Gutterman thread as that is what is easily locally available to me but I also use Coats & Clark and the JoAnn's Americana brand. I also use Thread Heaven to condition the thread and reduce tangles.
For marking I generally use a plain old #2 mechanical pencil for marking on light fabrics and also have a Bohin mechanical pencil with white lead for marking on dark fabrics.
For marking I generally use a plain old #2 mechanical pencil for marking on light fabrics and also have a Bohin mechanical pencil with white lead for marking on dark fabrics.
#8
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: NY
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I use Valdani 35 wt thread for hand quilting. Roxanne #11 needles. For marking I use many different tools. 1/4" masking tape for echoing seams and wider for cross hatch, clover chaco liner (use only white!! The colors don't always come out, I learned that the hard way), ceramic lead mechanical pencils, hera markers, chalk (both regular school style chalk in white and chalk pencils in gray and white), Saral and Transdoodle wax free transfer paper and I have even used pencil over starched fabric. Pencil is risky, it doesn't always come out. I have been very lucky and the starch acted as a sort of film on the fabric to keep the lead from embedding into the fibers. Back when I hand quilted I marked as I went. One time I marked a quilt in its entirety and a lot of the marks had rubbed off before I got to that area as I quilt with a lap hoop so the quilt rubs against itself and is manipulated a lot.
#9
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Ridgefield WA
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I use the same Gutterman as I do for piecing (great way to use up ends of spools and bobbins.) I mark with faint pencil, white chalk or air disappearing purple pen.
For applique I use "Invisifil" thread which is about the thickness of hair! (or seems so)
For applique I use "Invisifil" thread which is about the thickness of hair! (or seems so)
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