For those who don't get the newsletter, Back Forty has YLI Silk and Aurifil at 30% off ATM
NAYY - and trying SOOOOOOO hard to resist!
For those who don't get the newsletter, Back Forty has YLI Silk and Aurifil at 30% off ATM
NAYY - and trying SOOOOOOO hard to resist!
I don't think that counts as fabric, does it?
Oh I hope not!!
'Cos I am gonna buy the silk I need for my Tree quilt. YLI is normally almost $11AUS a reel over here (a bit over $8US) so this is just too good to pass up.
Ha! Resist? If I couldn't, why should you? ;)
(GROAN) I didn't!
But I did not buy any fabric, and I only bought threads for my next big project and "one or two" others.
If the thread sizes confuse you, Aurifil 50 wt is the one you want for machine piecing and machine quilting. It is not too fine or bulky, not too fragile; just right. The orange spools don't quite fit on my Berninas so I keep a drinking straw over the thread posts for an even feed. My drinking straws are red and white striped but it could be that something else would work as well. Polly
LOL! I'm *so* glad! I bought some Aurifil (love it for piecing and some quilting) and some silk (it's bliss for machine quilting). Great price!
I love the Aurifil 50 wt for piecing but find it a little light for quilting. Guess if I go to all that work to quilt I want it to show more. I do use the Aurifil in the bobbin if using the monofilament thread on the top.
Susan
I have just used my first Aurifil *variegated* for a piece of quilting. It's quite beautiful (the thread I mean! - though the quilting, in this instance, isn't bad >g
I think the weight of the quilting thread is, as are most things, a personal choice. There are times when we want the quilting to show a
*lot* and times when we want it to melt into the background and allow the quilt top to be the star. I've used the 50 wt. Aurifil for quilting and love it; I've also used heavier threads, as well as that absolutely luscious silk (100 wt). It all depends. :)Sorry, Sandy, but I really had to laugh at this post >g< I have only just reached the stage when I can bear my quilting to be visible *at all*! let alone work for it to show or even show a lot! We'll see if I ever get to the stage of wanting the quilting to be the star? I have learned all the theory, but my execution is still only pretty average at best! Still working at it, though ... . In message , Sandy Foster writes
Who said my quilting is good enough to be the star?? I said "we", which I was using impersonally to represent quilters as a group, but I should have been more clear. But quilters like Kathy A. *can* let their quilting be the focal point of the piece -- I want to quilt like her when I grow up, even though I'll never have a long-arm. :)
These days I'm just grateful for two matching arms. Even if they are short instead of long ;-)
marcella
Long arms drag on the ground and you skin your knuckles (not speaking from personal experience but from observation at zoos)
I agree Pat. I wonder if I will ever be confident enough to use decorative thread for my machine quilting. Just as think I will....I wimp out and use invisible. I just had that happen the past couple of days. I made this wall hanging as a gift, and should have used "real" thread in the border so the quilting would show....but I chickened out. Here are some pictures.
Oh he is just GORGEOUS!!
Your design or a pattern?
Way way back in my misspent youth I used to date a drummer and he looked just like this - arms flying in all directions lol
It's from a pattern by Juke Box quilts. A very cute pattern.
Oh, I *like* this -- I even like the toe! ;) Your quilting is just right for this quilt!
Beautiful!
Nope. I love how you did this one. I even think that this one *needed* invisible thread. You wouldn't have wanted the quilting to detract from the pattern in this case, would you Kathyl? Though Matching thread would have worked just fine, too. This is a wonderful quilt!
So I guess I should be grateful not to have a long-arm! ;)
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