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Posted by Patti on September 28, 2009, 4:40 pm
The alternative is to look at it a completely different way: an
excellent teacher I have met several times, renowned for Cathedral
Windows (where the rollbacks are all hand-stitched) said that, if it is
obvious that the piece has to have been stitched down onto a base - of
whatever sort - then the stitches might as well show! So, instead of
doing an invisible stitch along the edge, she would do tiny running
stitches along the top - not terribly close. I did take her point, as
even if the stitch doesn't show, the indentation usually will.
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>Back when I taught various quilting classes I would appliqué pink or
>yellow to white using black or red thread to show my students how to
>form the stitch. My stitches barely showed at all and some of that was
>'show-thru' and not the stitches themselves. Maybe you could get your
>stitches a bit more under the edge of the appliqué shape? Not
>criticizing, just another approach??? And I used Coats and Clark back
>then- all that was readily available around here and before I got to
>have a thread fetish and a ridiculously large thread collection! LOL
>Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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Best Regards
pat on the hill
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Posted by Trixie on September 28, 2009, 9:19 pm
Whew! I'm so glad I'm not the only one with a thread fetish. Sometimes it is
almost embarrassing, then I just close the closet door so nobody else can
see them.
Trixie
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> Back when I taught various quilting classes I would appliqué pink or
> yellow to white using black or red thread to show my students how to form
> the stitch. My stitches barely showed at all and some of that was
> 'show-thru' and not the stitches themselves. Maybe you could get your
> stitches a bit more under the edge of the appliqué shape? Not
> criticizing, just another approach??? And I used Coats and Clark back
> then- all that was readily available around here and before I got to have
> a thread fetish and a ridiculously large thread collection! LOL
> Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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Posted by Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. on September 28, 2009, 10:30 pm
Oh, yeah. Thread fetish, indeed! I have a rack that holds 24 large spools-
full. Five more racks that hold 120 spools each- full. Then there's the
fancy threads stored in tubs- the heavy duty threads and the wooly stuff and
the 'couch only' decorative threads- oh my. I'm guessing about 800
spools/threads total plus about 3-400 bobbins (?) in 10 bobbin boxes. And
all are organized by type and color. I HATE when I move and have to sort
them all over again!
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2218833800060435514jRFVSw
But I think Cindy has even more thread than I have.....
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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> Whew! I'm so glad I'm not the only one with a thread fetish. Sometimes it
> is almost embarrassing, then I just close the closet door so nobody else
> can see them.
> Trixie
>> Back when I taught various quilting classes I would appliqué pink or
>> yellow to white using black or red thread to show my students how to form
>> the stitch. My stitches barely showed at all and some of that was
>> 'show-thru' and not the stitches themselves. Maybe you could get your
>> stitches a bit more under the edge of the appliqué shape? Not
>> criticizing, just another approach??? And I used Coats and Clark back
>> then- all that was readily available around here and before I got to have
>> a thread fetish and a ridiculously large thread collection! LOL
>> Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
>
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Posted by teleflora on September 29, 2009, 8:42 am
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> http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2218833800060435514jRFVSw
> But I think Cindy has even more thread than I have.....
Oh, Crikey! Not even close, Les!
Cindy
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Posted by Taria on September 29, 2009, 10:12 am
So how long will threads last? Does the humidity level
make a difference? Some old stuff from mom and
g'ma made it here but it seemed so old I won't use it.
Taria
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>> http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2218833800060435514jRFVSw
>> But I think Cindy has even more thread than I have.....
> Oh, Crikey! Not even close, Les!
> Cindy
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>yellow to white using black or red thread to show my students how to
>form the stitch. My stitches barely showed at all and some of that was
>'show-thru' and not the stitches themselves. Maybe you could get your
>stitches a bit more under the edge of the appliqué shape? Not
>criticizing, just another approach??? And I used Coats and Clark back
>then- all that was readily available around here and before I got to
>have a thread fetish and a ridiculously large thread collection! LOL
>Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.