Thread for piecing
#12
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#15
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Now quilting is a whole different thing. My quilting thread stash is enormous but the bulk of it is 40 wt poly embroidery thread.
#16
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I never paid much attention to threads until I started long arm quilting. For most of the last 40 years I've been using Dual Duty.
Recently I was given a modern machine with the advice that it likes Aurifil. So do I and so do the rest of my machines!
I recently got a cone of Superior's So Fine to use for machine quilting, haven't yet but next project I start I will be using it in the piecing to see how I feel about it.
With my vision issues and since I mostly work scrappy I pretty much always use a steel/slate blue and beige threads, one on the top and one on the bottom. Can't see thread well enough if the color matches to take it out...
Recently I was given a modern machine with the advice that it likes Aurifil. So do I and so do the rest of my machines!
I recently got a cone of Superior's So Fine to use for machine quilting, haven't yet but next project I start I will be using it in the piecing to see how I feel about it.
With my vision issues and since I mostly work scrappy I pretty much always use a steel/slate blue and beige threads, one on the top and one on the bottom. Can't see thread well enough if the color matches to take it out...
#17
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: northern minnesota
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I use mainly Aurfil 50 also....I have a good supply of it....one of the best prices I have seen is at Hancock's of Paducah...they have sales occasionally. I also use Mettler silk finish cotton. I have used Gutterman but actually find it more linty then the others. I have been thinking about using Superior So Fine Poly as I have heard that others like it for piecing…..I do use it on my long-arm and think it might be a good way to use up what remains on the cones when there is not enough for quilting.....
#19