Remember my whine a few days ago? The widow's quilt made from very mixed fabrics, the horrible breaking thread? Following Polly's advice, I went to the LQS in search of silicone for my thread spool. No luck. Thought of trying a hardware store, but I'll need to do some linguistic research first. Meanwhile, I was out of green-band quilting needles, but the LQS had Madeira titanium embroidery needles. So I bought some of those. I'm in love! If you haven't tried these, please do, they really rock and roll! The needles *almost* solved my problems, but not entirely. Then I had a lightbulb moment while watching that slightly stretchy polo shirt fabric go up and down: the big foot free-motion quilting presser foot was having trouble forming the stitch. So I switched to the small generic darning foot, which seems to apply all the pressure to just the small area around the needle. Less flopping, and less thread breaking! No more skipped stitches! So now quilting is fun again, and I won't go bald from tearing my hair. Roberta in D
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15 years ago