I sew for a church group and someone donated some bright red sequined material. Not worth a hoot for quilting but I'm sewing some of the MollyMine crazy quilt embroidery hearts and it looks spectacular! We sell the ornaments as fundraisers to buy batting/backing fabric for the Quilt Ministry. It's stretchy material and I have to use temporary adhesive spray to make sure it behaves as it should, haven't experienced any problems with needle breakage using a Babylock Ellisimo.