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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 6, 2009, 9:27 am
Now that the color naming mystery has been solved...
The colors Dakota uses are Madeira Rayon. Our research suggests that
while rayon is allegedly better for framing purposes, polyester should
be better for a utility quilt as it's supposed to hold up better to
washing, wear, etc.
The catch is that Madeira's poly threads don't seem to correspond to
their rayons, (and they call it poly-neon, whatever that means) so
we're going to need to make some kind of conversion anyway. So the
next question is, are there opinions on poly embroidery thread
brands?
Currently, we have mostly Isocord and a little Metler - all
polyester. The LQS is clearing out Hemingworth at 1/2 price (but
there are some color substitution problems). They'll be picking up
Metler (which I've been told is the same as Isocord, but only comes on
those little spools).
I'M SO CONFUSED!!!
Doc
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Posted by Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. on October 6, 2009, 10:37 am
Doc, as you said to me just the other day 'I love ya, but.'...
Doc, you are making this quilt into an awful lot of work! Relax and enjoy
the process- you have said this CQ is going to be a 'using quilt' and if you
do use it then **it will not last forever** no matter what fabrics and
threads you use. Something has to wear out first. So what if it's the
rayon thread? Rayon thread is beautiful with it's soft sheen and amazing
selection of colors and it will please you every time you look at the quilt
to have used the exact colors in the pattern.
If you keep obsessing over thread types and colors and which fabrics and
fiber content and doing such massive research-- then your quilting is always
going to be A Big Fat Deal involving of weeks of research and frustrations
of choices and hard work *before* you ever pick up a scissors or needle or
turn on your sm- and you may never know the joys of just doing it and having
a finished quilt in your proud hands. Sometimes flying by the seat of your
pants and inventing and experimenting and changing your mind as you go along
can produce an original work that amazes even yourself.... Did I really
make this???
So stop with the research and fussing and get busy and jump in with both
feet and make that CQ! If you make a mistake then learn from it but don't
let the possibility keep you from moving forward. Just jump in and play
with your wonderful fabrics and enjoy the process and have FUN! Save your
authentic masterpiece work for down the line when you have a few dozen
quilts under your belt and you are making one for 'just for show' to hang on
the wall and collect dust!
Hugs,
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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> Now that the color naming mystery has been solved...
> The colors Dakota uses are Madeira Rayon. Our research suggests that
> while rayon is allegedly better for framing purposes, polyester should
> be better for a utility quilt as it's supposed to hold up better to
> washing, wear, etc.
> The catch is that Madeira's poly threads don't seem to correspond to
> their rayons, (and they call it poly-neon, whatever that means) so
> we're going to need to make some kind of conversion anyway. So the
> next question is, are there opinions on poly embroidery thread
> brands?
> Currently, we have mostly Isocord and a little Metler - all
> polyester. The LQS is clearing out Hemingworth at 1/2 price (but
> there are some color substitution problems). They'll be picking up
> Metler (which I've been told is the same as Isocord, but only comes on
> those little spools).
> I'M SO CONFUSED!!!
> Doc
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 6, 2009, 12:00 pm
On Oct 6, 10:37 am, "Leslie& The Furbabies in MO."
show/hide quoted text
> Sometimes flying by the seat of your
> pants and inventing and experimenting and changing your mind as you go al=
ong
show/hide quoted text
> can produce an original work that amazes even yourself.... Did I really
> make this???
ROTFLMAOWTIME! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! After the other day, I can't
believe you WROTE that! 8^D
You've got me pegged - and how! But this is why I design and DW
quilts; we balance each other.
She can't wait to cut into fabric and get that machine a-hummin'. I
get off on designing/planning to the last detail. In any enterprise
we undertake, we examine, utilize, and respect each others strengths,
talents, and foibles and try to support each other.
I can't remember where in the distant past I heard it, but someone
somewhere put it that there are two kinds of stress: bad stress, and
good - or joyful - stress. The bad kind is the kind you dread, like
doing taxes; the good kind is the kind you enjoy, like the stress of
watching a horror movie (for those who are into them) or... oh, I
don't know.... QUILTING! With experience things become easier, but
when everyone here first started out, it's likely there was some
stress/trepidation at getting seams right, flipping the sandwich over
periodically to avoid catches, etc. It's stressful, but you don't
mind because you're enjoying it. Some stress *can* be fun! (There
are actually some biological reasons for this; chemicals similar to
adrenalin and endorphins generated in the brain that stimulate
pleasure centers, but I digress...)
Getting things right the first time, doing my best, competing with
myself, putting 100% into things I do are things that I enjoy. I
figured this out about myself in college, and I reveled in it. Once
things get rolling I'll have more than my share of "this will have to
be good enough" and/or "whoops!" but generally, from my experiences,
the more I put into the planning, the smoother and more enjoyable the
doing will be and go *for me*.
If you see all this as a personality flaw, I hope you can also see
that there are a lot of worse ones I could have.
(And in case you've forgotten, it all helps me take & keep my mind off
the pain... ;-)
YMMV and all other standard disclaimers apply... :-)
Doc
On Oct 6, 10:37=A0am, "Leslie& The Furbabies in MO."
show/hide quoted text
> Doc, as you said to me just the other day 'I love ya, but.'...
> Doc, you are making this quilt into an awful lot of work! =A0Relax and en=
joy
show/hide quoted text
> the process- you have said this CQ is going to be a 'using quilt' and if =
you
show/hide quoted text
> do use it then **it will not last forever** no matter what fabrics and
> threads you use. =A0Something has to wear out first. =A0So what if it's t=
he
show/hide quoted text
> rayon thread? =A0Rayon thread is beautiful with it's soft sheen and amazi=
ng
show/hide quoted text
> selection of colors and it will please you every time you look at the qui=
lt
show/hide quoted text
> to have used the exact colors in the pattern.
> If you keep obsessing over thread types and colors and which fabrics and
> fiber content and doing such massive research-- then your quilting is alw=
ays
show/hide quoted text
> going to be A Big Fat Deal involving of weeks of research and frustration=
s
show/hide quoted text
> of choices and hard work *before* you ever pick up a scissors or needle o=
r
show/hide quoted text
> turn on your sm- and you may never know the joys of just doing it and hav=
ing
show/hide quoted text
> a finished quilt in your proud hands. =A0Sometimes flying by the seat of =
your
show/hide quoted text
> pants and inventing and experimenting and changing your mind as you go al=
ong
show/hide quoted text
> can produce an original work that amazes even yourself.... =A0Did I reall=
y
show/hide quoted text
> make this???
> So stop with the research and fussing and get busy and jump in with both
> feet and make that CQ! =A0 If you make a mistake then learn from it but d=
on't
show/hide quoted text
> let the possibility keep you from moving forward. =A0Just jump in and pla=
y
show/hide quoted text
> with your wonderful fabrics and enjoy the process and have FUN! =A0Save y=
our
show/hide quoted text
> authentic masterpiece work for down the line when you have a few dozen
> quilts under your belt and you are making one for 'just for show' to hang=
on
show/hide quoted text
> the wall and collect dust!
> Hugs,
> Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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Posted by Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. on October 6, 2009, 12:58 pm
You ended one post with "I'M SO CONFUSED". I wanted to 'give permission'
for you to relax and spread your wings. Now you have that option as well as
your intensive planning. It's ALL good!
Leslie- trying to be a supportive friend... and ending up confoundedly
switch-hitting in the process! ;-)
On Oct 6, 10:37 am, "Leslie& The Furbabies in MO."
show/hide quoted text
> Sometimes flying by the seat of your
> pants and inventing and experimenting and changing your mind as you go
> along
> can produce an original work that amazes even yourself.... Did I really
> make this???
ROTFLMAOWTIME! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! After the other day, I can't
believe you WROTE that! 8^D
You've got me pegged - and how! But this is why I design and DW
quilts; we balance each other.
She can't wait to cut into fabric and get that machine a-hummin'. I
get off on designing/planning to the last detail. In any enterprise
we undertake, we examine, utilize, and respect each others strengths,
talents, and foibles and try to support each other.
I can't remember where in the distant past I heard it, but someone
somewhere put it that there are two kinds of stress: bad stress, and
good - or joyful - stress. The bad kind is the kind you dread, like
doing taxes; the good kind is the kind you enjoy, like the stress of
watching a horror movie (for those who are into them) or... oh, I
don't know.... QUILTING! With experience things become easier, but
when everyone here first started out, it's likely there was some
stress/trepidation at getting seams right, flipping the sandwich over
periodically to avoid catches, etc. It's stressful, but you don't
mind because you're enjoying it. Some stress *can* be fun! (There
are actually some biological reasons for this; chemicals similar to
adrenalin and endorphins generated in the brain that stimulate
pleasure centers, but I digress...)
Getting things right the first time, doing my best, competing with
myself, putting 100% into things I do are things that I enjoy. I
figured this out about myself in college, and I reveled in it. Once
things get rolling I'll have more than my share of "this will have to
be good enough" and/or "whoops!" but generally, from my experiences,
the more I put into the planning, the smoother and more enjoyable the
doing will be and go *for me*.
If you see all this as a personality flaw, I hope you can also see
that there are a lot of worse ones I could have.
(And in case you've forgotten, it all helps me take & keep my mind off
the pain... ;-)
YMMV and all other standard disclaimers apply... :-)
Doc
On Oct 6, 10:37 am, "Leslie& The Furbabies in MO."
show/hide quoted text
> Doc, as you said to me just the other day 'I love ya, but.'...
> Doc, you are making this quilt into an awful lot of work! Relax and enjoy
> the process- you have said this CQ is going to be a 'using quilt' and if
> you
> do use it then **it will not last forever** no matter what fabrics and
> threads you use. Something has to wear out first. So what if it's the
> rayon thread? Rayon thread is beautiful with it's soft sheen and amazing
> selection of colors and it will please you every time you look at the
> quilt
> to have used the exact colors in the pattern.
> If you keep obsessing over thread types and colors and which fabrics and
> fiber content and doing such massive research-- then your quilting is
> always
> going to be A Big Fat Deal involving of weeks of research and frustrations
> of choices and hard work *before* you ever pick up a scissors or needle or
> turn on your sm- and you may never know the joys of just doing it and
> having
> a finished quilt in your proud hands. Sometimes flying by the seat of your
> pants and inventing and experimenting and changing your mind as you go
> along
> can produce an original work that amazes even yourself.... Did I really
> make this???
> So stop with the research and fussing and get busy and jump in with both
> feet and make that CQ! If you make a mistake then learn from it but don't
> let the possibility keep you from moving forward. Just jump in and play
> with your wonderful fabrics and enjoy the process and have FUN! Save your
> authentic masterpiece work for down the line when you have a few dozen
> quilts under your belt and you are making one for 'just for show' to hang
> on
> the wall and collect dust!
> Hugs,
> Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 6, 2009, 2:47 pm
My bad. Sometimes I neglect emoticons when I ought not.
I *am* asking for opinions on which brands of thread are better/worse.
Things are just more complicated than brand x vs. brand y.
If someone had experience that brand x were terrible, kept breaking in
the machine, faded, etc. or that brand y was really good and they
wouldn't consider using anything else... that kind of stuff (the usual
opinion fests here on RCTQ :-) it might help me figure this mess
out. OTOH, if all embroidery threads are pretty much the same, that
would help too. We just don't know, so I asked.
Doc
On Oct 6, 12:58=A0pm, "Leslie& The Furbabies in MO."
show/hide quoted text
> You ended one post with "I'M SO CONFUSED". =A0I wanted to 'give permissio=
n'
show/hide quoted text
> for you to relax and spread your wings. =A0Now you have that option as we=
ll as
show/hide quoted text
> your intensive planning. =A0It's ALL good!
> Leslie- trying to be a supportive friend... and ending up confoundedly
> switch-hitting in the process! =A0;-)
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> The colors Dakota uses are Madeira Rayon. Our research suggests that
> while rayon is allegedly better for framing purposes, polyester should
> be better for a utility quilt as it's supposed to hold up better to
> washing, wear, etc.
> The catch is that Madeira's poly threads don't seem to correspond to
> their rayons, (and they call it poly-neon, whatever that means) so
> we're going to need to make some kind of conversion anyway. So the
> next question is, are there opinions on poly embroidery thread
> brands?
> Currently, we have mostly Isocord and a little Metler - all
> polyester. The LQS is clearing out Hemingworth at 1/2 price (but
> there are some color substitution problems). They'll be picking up
> Metler (which I've been told is the same as Isocord, but only comes on
> those little spools).
> I'M SO CONFUSED!!!
> Doc