Vat

If you will use a cream thread as you stitch it will end up looking sort of like shadowing. I think you might like it. Try on a sample.

Geri B

I use a black lite on my longarm when doing white on white....turn all other lites off

quiltstringz

And one the turns black as I think that is as hard as white on white

tenngal

I use a lot of light gray.

Marysewfun

This sounds logical - - believe it or not, sometimes you can get too much light! :-)

Marysewfun

psquared52

I had the same problem when I was FMQ'ing black on black. Drove me nuts! My solution was to take a piece of colored WASHABLE chalk which i gently rubbed against the quilt top. It breaks the color up just enough that I could see my stitching. It is a bit dusty to work with but it worked for me. Washed the quilt top afterwards and every bit of chalk was gone! Very important to use washable chalk...and do a sample piece, of course. Hope that helps!

Sharoni

Amen to that!

rakerlm

I would try a machine embroidery thread - the threads are strong and they generally have a lot of shine which makes them show up. They are great for quilting and you can get them in 5000 m cones

mariatherese

That's actually what I ended up doing! I have an embroidery machine so I have a stash of threads at hand. I had a 1000 m reel of variegated pale pink/white thread that I ended up using.

I decided against the stippling though so that means that I don't have to worry too much about seeing the thread. Next time I'll do stippling though!

JanieH

This is a great idea! I am going to experiment with different lamps I have. Thanks for the tip!