Thread Painting Tips

 This week I taught a thread painting class at Sew Nice.

I was amazed at how fast my students learned to thread paint.

There was so much information that I gave them that I wanted to post a few reminders and a picture is worth a thousand words.

The picture above is a sample of what we did.

Here are the reminders:

Always bring your thread to the top so you do not have a knotted mess underneath your project.

 

If you thread paint an embroidered picture, I use two threads for the top.  I have a large cone of thread that is pictured and a bobbin of thread.  When I thread my sewing machine, I thread the two threads like they are one thread.  You may want to loosen your thread tension just a little.  You may be wondering why I have two empty bobbins on top of my bobbin full of thread.  The experience that I have had is the bobbin is so light weight that the thread spins off too fast causing some uneven stitching and it crossed my mind that a regular spool of thread would be a little heavier than a bobbin.

So the empty bobbins add just enough weight to make my stitching perfect.

 

This quilt top is still on my design board.

It has been there since October and I am trying to finish.

I would like to have it quilted by next Christmas--we will see!

I have a friend that needs to borrow a sewing machine that is learning how to quilt.

Do you think that I can hook her on quilting with a Singer Featherweight?

She wants to see if she likes sewing before she invests a lot of money into a sewing machine.  I hope that she finds it as enjoyable as I do.

Making quilts for others and giving them away is the best therapy there is!

Happy Quilting!

Kay Lynne