I use a fons and porter utility needle for hand quilting with perle cotton.
Hand quilting perle cotton tutorial.
I like to stitch with size 8 perle cotton and the fons and porter needles are easy to thread when using size 8 or size 12.
I buy some of my perle cotton online usually on etsy but if you google you will find other options.
If it was a quilt that was going to be washed a lot i would either do lots of hand quilting on it to make it strong or i would add some machine quilting as well.
These needles were specifically designed for big stitch quilting.
I am so excited i bought a hoop thimble needles and perle cotton today.
Thanks for sharing and have a great day.
Hopefully i will tomorrow.
The perle 8 cotton seems to be really strong.
This was an excellent tutorial on hand quilting giving me the desire to try hand quilting once again.
I quite like combining machine and hand quilting.
I just have to finish some machine quilting on the quilt it is a large throw so i thought for my first time hand quilting that maybe i shouldn t try to hand quilt the whole thing and then i can get started.
I m just reviewing this again.
I instantly felt i had found the quilting thread i had been looking for all my life.
On wonky donkey i stitched in the ditch and then hand quilted circles on it.
Thanks for leaving a nice comment on my hand quilting tutorial.
The stitching shows more prominently on the quilt than machine stitching and adds an extra layer of design to the finished quilt.
Nov 5 2017 learn how to do big stitch hand quilting using perle cotton 8 tutorial.
Perle cotton big stitch quilting sometimes referred to as utility quilting is a method of hand quilting that uses longer stitch lengths 1 4 and thicker threads most commonly 8 perle cotton.