Machine quilting with a double needle??!!
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Machine quilting with a double needle??!!
I was reading a quilting blog and someone said they quilt twice as fast by using a double needle.
I was wondering how this would look, and if anyone here has any experience doing this, would you please share the profits and pitfalls of such a wacky practice?
I was wondering how this would look, and if anyone here has any experience doing this, would you please share the profits and pitfalls of such a wacky practice?
#3
I'm currently working on Bonnie Hunter's Smokey Mountain Stars - a six pointed slanted star, for some Jewish friends of mine, and I'm curious how doing the Star of David with a double needle would work out. I do intend on doing a test piece, and it should be interesting, as I've never used a double needle for anything in my life ever!
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I have never used the double needle either but it is my understanding on the back it looks like railroad tracks.
Here is a blog I found that shows pictures front and back and how to thread for it. http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/05...us-double.html
Here is a blog I found that shows pictures front and back and how to thread for it. http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/05...us-double.html
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I have used a double needle. It creates two lines of stitching perfectly spaced on top. However, the bottom looks like a zigzag and can tunnel. It could work for a wallhanging, but I can't imagine doing this on a bed quilt.
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Ditto on the tunneling! Also, if, by chance (big chance with a lot of stitching) one of the threads should break, it is really troublesome to back it up, unstitch, start again in the exact spot, or overlap, so I would not recommend it.
#9
If you use the smallest double needle and do straight stitching the back will not look so bad. I saw a 2 color quilt done with one color in one needle and another color in other needle. Example: blue and white quilt with blue and white threads in needles. This way the blue thread showed up on white fabric and white showed on blue fabric. The quilt I saw was quilted diagonally, no curves etc.
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