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Posted by Polly Esther on November 16, 2009, 11:28 pm
Well, I'll declare. I've been uppity about thread fuzzies for years.
Turned my nose up at anything that would cause Miss Bernina to fill up with
fog. I've felt deprived and abused if I had to use anything but very
special threads.
Wrong.
The quilt blocks on the design wall now are red and white - a quilt for
Quilts of Valor. Time after time I brushed the red fluff from beneath the
needle plate and the bobbin area and just all kinds of hidey holes on the
SM.
"Well, Stupid", I eventually said to myself. It wasn't crummy thread
at all. I'm stitching with *white* thread. The fuzzies are coming from the
fabric. What a surprise. Polly
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Posted by Sunny on November 17, 2009, 12:10 am
ROFL!!! Oh my dear Miz Polly, you know I cursed my cheap thread for
years until I made something with flannel and suddenly realized why I
had such horrible "thread" fuzz mucking up my poor little Pfaff. But,
some of the fuzz comes from bad thread. I do know this because I use
bad thread. It makes fuzz on the needle and above the needle that then
travels down the thread and makes a bump that gives my baby heartburn.
I think using "good" thread makes less fuzz. But if you're using a
fabric that "donates" a lot, then fuzz is just an ongoing problem. The
worst for me is sewing with fleece. I have to clean out my bobbin area
every hour or so. And I do use a lot of fleece for baby quilt backing.
Hugs and a good lint brush,
Sunny
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Posted by Polly Esther on November 17, 2009, 12:22 am
Good lint brush? Ha.
I need goggles, a mask and the vacuum attachment for tiny spaces.
Never mind. We'll get through this one . . . but ! when you use fleece
for a backing - do you also use a batting or is the fleece a sufficient loft
to do for both? A nice fleece might save me a step. Sounds good. Polly
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> ROFL!!! Oh my dear Miz Polly, you know I cursed my cheap thread for
> years until I made something with flannel and suddenly realized why I
> had such horrible "thread" fuzz mucking up my poor little Pfaff. But,
> some of the fuzz comes from bad thread. I do know this because I use
> bad thread. It makes fuzz on the needle and above the needle that then
> travels down the thread and makes a bump that gives my baby heartburn.
> I think using "good" thread makes less fuzz. But if you're using a
> fabric that "donates" a lot, then fuzz is just an ongoing problem. The
> worst for me is sewing with fleece. I have to clean out my bobbin area
> every hour or so. And I do use a lot of fleece for baby quilt backing.
> Hugs and a good lint brush,
> Sunny
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Posted by Sunny on November 17, 2009, 1:18 am
Polly, it depends on the top and the fleece. I just have to do a touch
test. I put a piece of fleece on the top, roughly pen around a few
spots so it stays together, and then I feel it. If the seams are too
hard through the fleece, I use a batting. But only a very thin one.
Some fleece is thick enough to hold up and that's all I use. The
weight is great, the quilt is really snuggly and cuddly and wraps
around very nicely.
My first "quilt" which was made a good three years before I started to
be interested in making good quilts, was for my son who is cold all
the time (he's 6'3" and weighs 145 lbs). I used two layers of fleece
and just sewed in squares all over to keep the layers together. That
is the warmest quilt on earth and will probably still be in existence
when some archeologist digs up our long disappeared culture eons from
now. He's slept under it every night for ... I think 6 years ... and
typically if he's going to be watching a movie he pulls the quilt down
and wraps up in it. It gets lots of use. There is no way to put nice
points or fussy seam meetings on fleece (at least not for sane
people). But it is possible to make simple blocks and so have it be a
"real" quilt top all of fleece. I've done it several times and when I
take those into the donation offices, the folks always ooooh and
ahhhhh over them. It's not easy, but it's worth it sometimes.
Okay, sorry for the treatise on fleece, LOL. I don't even know if I
answered your question. But I would definitely back with fleece. It
doesn't need close quilting (I have a friend who just ties her fleece
backed quilts) and it likes to stick together, so the layers don't
move too much once you introduce them to each other. I use it all the
time. Buy in big quantities when it's on a good sale at Joann's.
Sunny
contemplating my own fleece "blankie"
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Posted by Allison on November 17, 2009, 9:44 am
I used fleece for backings on two "tv" quilts that I made for home.
They are wonderful and snuggly and are more likely to be wrapped around
someone on the couch than sitting neatly folded. FWIW, I didn't use any
batting but then I used thick fleece so any more thickness would've been
hard to MQ.
HTH
Allison.
Polly Esther wrote:
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> Good lint brush? Ha.
> I need goggles, a mask and the vacuum attachment for tiny spaces.
> Never mind. We'll get through this one . . . but ! when you use
> fleece for a backing - do you also use a batting or is the fleece a
> sufficient loft to do for both? A nice fleece might save me a step.
> Sounds good. Polly
>
>
>> ROFL!!! Oh my dear Miz Polly, you know I cursed my cheap thread for
>> years until I made something with flannel and suddenly realized why I
>> had such horrible "thread" fuzz mucking up my poor little Pfaff. But,
>> some of the fuzz comes from bad thread. I do know this because I use
>> bad thread. It makes fuzz on the needle and above the needle that then
>> travels down the thread and makes a bump that gives my baby heartburn.
>> I think using "good" thread makes less fuzz. But if you're using a
>> fabric that "donates" a lot, then fuzz is just an ongoing problem. The
>> worst for me is sewing with fleece. I have to clean out my bobbin area
>> every hour or so. And I do use a lot of fleece for baby quilt backing.
>> Hugs and a good lint brush,
>> Sunny
>
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> years until I made something with flannel and suddenly realized why I
> had such horrible "thread" fuzz mucking up my poor little Pfaff. But,
> some of the fuzz comes from bad thread. I do know this because I use
> bad thread. It makes fuzz on the needle and above the needle that then
> travels down the thread and makes a bump that gives my baby heartburn.
> I think using "good" thread makes less fuzz. But if you're using a
> fabric that "donates" a lot, then fuzz is just an ongoing problem. The
> worst for me is sewing with fleece. I have to clean out my bobbin area
> every hour or so. And I do use a lot of fleece for baby quilt backing.
> Hugs and a good lint brush,
> Sunny