I was told to use a size 8 Perle cotton thread, and suitable needle.
All you do is quilt evenly and with consistent stitches... no need to try for
those teeny-tiny perfect stitches such as you would do for other quilts and with
very small needle/quilting threads.

By the way ... my "photo" was a big stitch project.

Very nice and even stitches. Maybe you should take a look at sashiko stitching. You may like that also.

Great - always a step behind the curve. I am trying to master smaller stitches and bigger stitches are popular. Then as I try to master bigger and even stitches ( like yours are) then smaller stitches are popular. The pillow looks just great and even stitches. Thanks for sharing.

I love it - and all this time I thought that the stiches had to be real small (not that mine are yet). Good going and keep it up :)

Love the cushion it is really stunning, read a tip somewhere about even hand stitching, machine stitch where you intend to hand stitch with no thread in the needle then use the perforations as a guide.

Carol Wilson
Australia

That is a great idea and was a perfect touch to your pillow. I may try that soon. Thanks for sharing.

I love the big stitches. They give an old antique country look

That was my thought. Looks good and goes well with the pillow design.

I really like that - haven't seen that before! Neat job done too...

I love it! You did a great job. I love how the stitches show up so well. This is going to be my new favourite way to quilt.

I like the look.

very good

You did a great job. It is very impressive.

I like it! The quilting really stands out!

I really like that, it looks very rustic!

It could not be any prettier. I am gonna try that large stitch also. Love it

:XD: :thumbup: Nice job. Never would have thought to try that.

Oops, just noticed I said trapunto in my original post, when I meant sashiko :oops:. Just goes to show what a newbie I still am!

Billie Lauder wrote a book on big stitch.
Quilting in the BigStitch Style. I am not sure whether it is still in print or not but it is excellent.

I love it! Looks really great! Hand quilting always looks best. I'm glad you got the bug back.

I found this

http://www.softexpressions.com/softw...ltBigStich.php

That looks great! 8-)

LOVE THAT LOOK! AWESOME - I'LL HAVE TO MAKE SOMETHING SO I CAN TRY THAT.

Here are a couple pictures of lap quilts I made with the big stitch. I did the stitching in black for an old fashioned look.

I almost think I like the big stitch look more than the regular quilting. You do beautiful work.

judyjo

that's how i hand quilt ;) great job!!

beautiful--I love the look

pieces thank you so much for posting your pictures, they are beautiful, the quilting really focuses your blocks. After seeing your larger quilts, I am definitely going to include big stitch in my next full size quilt.
Having only recently started conventional hand quilting I love the way it softly gives a 3D effect to the blocks, which doesn't come with the continuous stitches in machining. I'm glad that this big stitch method has received such positive feedback from everyone, good to know I'm not going too far wrong.
As a newbie this board is my inspitation and tutor. :D

I REALLY like it -----------A LOT!---------

I think that you chose the perfect quilting stitch for this project!!! Beautiful handwork :D:D:D

I really like the "big stitch". I might be the next user as I try my hand at hand quilting!

Ahhh, I just looked up Coton a Broder #16 :) didn't know it was embroidery thread. So what size needle did you use with that?

Those are just lovely !!

Embroidery needles size 5 to 7 were what I found were suggested.

any tutorials or videos to watch on big stitch quilting???

That's very nice

I just found a book by Billie Lauder on big stitching

http://www.softexpressions.com/softw...ltBigStich.php

blog with photos of the quilting stitches

http://quiltsalott.blogspot.com/2009...-quilting.html

interesting article with tips

http://www.quilt.com/QuestionOfTheWeek/1999/0308.html

Craftybear, thanks for posting the links. I am interested in this stitch. 8-)