For Piecing -- Light or Dark Thread
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For Piecing -- Light or Dark Thread
When you start a project that will have many colors of every shade, what color thread do you go with on the machine? I have always tended toward the light. An off white or a soft grey. Or does it really make any difference for you? They're not really supposed to show anyway.... but on mine, sometimes they do.
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generally---if the majority of fabrics are leaning toward darker colors i use a medium/dark gray- or tan
if the majority are mainly light fabrics i use a lighter gray or cream-
if they are fairly even lights/darks i use what ever happens to be on the machine.
if the majority are mainly light fabrics i use a lighter gray or cream-
if they are fairly even lights/darks i use what ever happens to be on the machine.
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I use all hues of colors - depending on my mood. When I am strip piecing darks together, I like to use thread color as close as I can to the fabric color. I use white on whites, and then all hues of creams and greys. Right now, I am trying to use up as much small quantities on a spool as I can. The thread police may get me, but I use all thread, cotton, polyester, cotton wrapped polyester, polyester wrapped cotton - all together, as long as my machine can use it, it gets used. But new thread that I purchase, I am trying aurifil.
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