What thread color?
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What thread color?
How do you determine what color thread to use? If the colors in the quilt are blue with white background, should or could a blue thread be used over the white or should a white be used only? The backing is also blue. Thanks for your help.
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I love using variegated threads. Are you asking for the quilting or the piecing? If piecing you can use a blue, or grey or whatever. for quilting a blue and white variegated thread looks really great depending on how you quilt it. I would use a blue on the back, close to the color of your fabric.
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I watched a youtube video recently that suggested dark thread on light fabric was less appealing than light thread on dark fabric. Based on my two latest lap quilts, I concur. The light thread hardly shows on the dark fabric in one. The dark thread on the other makes the light squares look dirty--or like the marking lines didn't wash out.
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I second what newbee said. I rarely match the color of the thread to the fabrics. If you have a blue quilt and use blue thread, you won't see any of the quilting. If you have a blue and white quilt and use either of those colors, you will see it on the opposite color...but not on the matching color. I try to find a thread that you can see, but does not pop out at you. Right now my go to colors are a med to light tan and spearmint. That green really surprised me! It seems to go with everything. I have even used up a big cone of it! I like the look of contrasting thread, but I have to be having a great quilting day...I can see EVERY bobble!
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