Pearl Cotton Quilting
10-03-2013, 02:10 PM
#31
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Back again after reading all the previous posts. We used colored thread all the time and never had a bleeding problem back then. Don't know if it would be now. I have several quilts from then that are used and washed all the time. One I have to requilt as the thread is wearing out but the quilt is not. On my bucket list.
10-03-2013, 02:16 PM
#32
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Wisconsin
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I'm using a dark red perle to do a big hand stitch on a blue and white quilt I made with dark red binding. I read a post once that said just have fun with it and don't worry about doing perfect stitches. A little imperfection just gives it more charm. Well so farm my stitching is very charming, LOL! I'll post a picture of it when it's completed.
10-03-2013, 06:08 PM
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Location: Ohio, just east of Toledo
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I have shown this before. A few months after my husband and I married (32 yrs ago) his grandma died. SAhe left alot of quilts and quilting stuff, and no one else in the family cared, so they came to me.
One was a maple leaf quilt, unfinished, all hand sewn blocks, with a graph paper showing her plans.
I put it together, by machine, but felt it deserved some hand quilting, which I did 'big stitch.'
I outlined the leaves in whatever color that particular leaf was in, picked some fall leaf print, and said "It's done - to go to the next generation."
One was a maple leaf quilt, unfinished, all hand sewn blocks, with a graph paper showing her plans.
I put it together, by machine, but felt it deserved some hand quilting, which I did 'big stitch.'
I outlined the leaves in whatever color that particular leaf was in, picked some fall leaf print, and said "It's done - to go to the next generation."
10-03-2013, 06:23 PM
#36
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10-09-2013, 03:18 PM
#38
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Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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Mine, shown here before. This has a thread called Cotty, from Sulky, no longer available like this. I called Sulky and the sweet lady sent me the "last spool available anywhere, as far as we know!" from her own collection. 
Closest to it she told me is the Sulky 12 wt. cotton which also comes in 'blendables'. Quilt made in mid 1980s, I think; quilted in mid 2000.
Jan in VA
That's a quarter, not a penny.
Closest to it she told me is the Sulky 12 wt. cotton which also comes in 'blendables'. Quilt made in mid 1980s, I think; quilted in mid 2000.Jan in VA
That's a quarter, not a penny.
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