Colleague Rita points out that the lovely grey thread that I bought last week for the quilting doesn't stand out as much as it might.Most irritatingly, I think that she is right.
So before I plough on any further with my FMQ stars, I'll give this darker grey thread a go - possibly the dark grey for the top thread & keep the paler grey for the bobbin thread.If it looks better than the block and a half I've done, I can undo without too much bad language.
Bah.
Careful, careful, I think we've been here before and the end result was an awful lot of unpicking ...
ReplyDeleteRecovering from a cold (= brain fog all week) but I have a sneaky feeling that early on in your quilting career we all had a discussion about the effect of a quilting thread which contrasts hugely with the quilt top. If you have any of the quilt top fabrics left, can I suggest you make up a sample block and do some experiments before you make a commitment to the actual quilt?
Shuffling back to the corner now ...
Goodness me, Hobbit - that was a most timely intervention!!
ReplyDeleteYes, you are quite right that the ol' pea brain had forgotton the pain of unpicking the overly dark quilting on Sure Steps!
And I was entirely poised with my unpicker for the FMQ stars - BUT instead, I will trial a couple of blocks with dark-grey-top, dark-grey-bottom and dark-grey-top, light-grey-bottom and then we can see what's to be done!
Thank you, m'dear - and *do* keep on the hot toddies/oodles of fresh air, and keep off the disproportionately hard labour for the time being?
I don't really need to add anything here do I? Bilbo covered it with her suggestion of a trial block or two. That could save you a lot of heartache and handache from gripping the stitch ripper.
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