suncentaur

Hi, I ordered a brother pe770 embroidery machine. I thought I could make some of the many quilting designs available these days online with it. But I am confused how quilting in the hoop works. They say that brother pe770 is very picky about thread and that it uses 90 weight bobbin thread in the bobbin. I'm just wondering if that is strong enough to use in a quilt sandwich. In a regular sewing machine I match my bobbin thread with my top thread so it looks nice on the quilt back and so there are no issues with one thread cutting or breaking another over time. So I am just wondering how this works or if I should order another perhaps higher end machine for quilting in the hoop? I was excited when I ordered the pe770 until people started saying how important it was that 90 weight bobbin thread be used in it.

I suppose I could just use the machine for embroidering quilt blocks and then quilt around them with a regular machine afterwards but the whole quilt in the hoop thing sounded really great. Do more expensive embroidery machines allow for more freedom with bobbin thread choice? The pe770 is very affordable for the size hoop you get (5x7) and you can also get a 5x12 repositionable hoop as well for it.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks, Sun