jgriinke

Use what you have and go for it. How many hundreds of years do we want a quilt to last? With all of those beautiful threads out there - how can we not use them for quilting? I do it all the time.

Jingle

There aren't suppose to be quilting police on here but, I have seen and heard them. Use whatever you want, not every quilt is meant to be a heirloom quilt. I use whatever thread matches. I have no rayon thread, don't know anything about it. Connecting thread is now selling cones of polyester thread for quilting. I haven't bought any, as I have lots of thread.

glorcour

I use poly and have used rayon, but poly seems stronger. Love your quilt

sheria

very nice!

feline fanatic

I'm always amazed when I see the myth about not using polyester thread perpetuated. There is absolutely NO reason to not use poly, in fact many of the best award winning machine quilters out there today are using poly like Karen McTavish and Rhonda Beyer. The old wives tale about polyester "cutting" into the cotton fibers in the quilt is a myth
http://www.superiorthreads.com/educa...-and-what-isnt

Rayon, I can see trying not to use. But I too have been guilty of using it when it was the perfect color for a quilt. Here is a link to Superior threads explaining the two main reasons to avoid it in quilting. It is weak and not colorfast when bleach is used
http://www.superiorthreads.com/educa...-fiber-viscose

I don't consider this acts of quilt police. Use whatever you want. Just be aware of the problems that could arise.

lfstamper

Cute quilt and baby won't care about the thread choice...lol.

ckcowl

i really don't know what you are so worried about---thousands of quilters every day use poly thread to quilt their quilts- cotton thread does not work very well in long-arm machines- the machine goes too fast- the thread breaks all the time- machine quilting thread is polyester.
as for the rayon---if it was strong enough to do the job---good for you-
some people quilt with silk thread too---
it's not a problem to use the thread that works for you- and is strong enough-
the only thread i've had problems with for quilting was a number of years ago i quilted a quilt with an invisible thread that melted in the dryer---broke all over the quilt leaving horrible pokies all over it---but i do believe the invisible threads have come a long way since then.

Caswews

beautiful is all I have to say !

peacequiltingnana

Man, I hope "they" don't find me. I'd be locked up for life.

Momyar

Thanks everyone for all the nice and kind words. Here's a bit of background. I attended a t-shirt quilting class recently and picked up (what I thought was the perfect color to quilt with) and it was polyster thread. The teacher told me "Oh no, we only use cotton thread on cotton fabric." The funny thing was the thread I had originally picked up was in a sale bin.

I don't have a lot of places to buy fabric, thread and such. We have Joann's, Hancock and a couple of local sewing and vacuuming places. But both the sewing and vacuum places are closed on Sunday. So I decided to go with what I wanted.

Thanks again for all the kind words and hope you enjoyed the chuckle.

PS I have a nephew-in-law who's also in law enforcement. Made his and my niece's baby a quilt when that great nephew was born so I'm sure my nephew-in-law won't arrest me either.