Ball Point Needles & FMQ

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02-25-2016, 02:23 PM

#21

pocoellie

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I may be wrong, but I've been under the impression that ball point needles are for knits or stretch fabrics.

03-16-2016, 10:47 PM

#22

Claire123

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Location: Indiana

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I'm no expert here, but I have only used ball point needles in garment sewing with knits/stretchy fabrics. I'd stick with either top stitching, microtex or quilting needles.

03-17-2016, 11:38 AM

#23

Onebyone

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I switched to titanium coated topstitch needles for piecing, decorative stitching, and fmq on my Brother, Bernina and Janome. I use Singer quilt shop quality needles in my Singer. Singer makes two different quality of needles. One that is cheap and one that is not. UGH! How silly.