Hand Quilting With Perle Cotton

The technique is the same but you take longer stitches and you get to use prettier thread.

Hand quilting with perle cotton.

Some of them are fully hand quilted and some of them use both machine quilting and hand quilting. 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. No pulling apart tangled strands of embroidery floss. See more ideas about hand quilting perle cotton quilts.

Thanks for leaving a nice comment on my hand quilting tutorial. Pearl cotton thread is a heavy weight lustrous thread that has many uses including hand quilting embroidery cross stitch crochet friendship bracelets and more. I also have a local quilt shop that carries a selection of colors. Feb 9 2016 explore zane jacks s board hand quilting with perle cotton followed by 159 people on pinterest.

Size 8 is equivalent to 3 strands of embroidery floss. The photo is a bit blurry but that s how i was taking most of my photos in 2014. The stitching shows more prominently on the quilt than machine stitching and adds an extra layer of design to the finished quilt. 75 yds 10 grams per spool.

Let s start with my very first attempt at hand quilting. I buy some of my perle cotton online usually on etsy but if you google you will find other options. I use a fons and porter utility needle for hand quilting with perle cotton. 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.