Closeup of machine stitching on the peony petals
Picking threads for the peony
Machine quilting with DecoBob
Since I want the focus to be on the flower, I want the quilting in
the background to blend in with the fabric. DecoBob, because it
is so fine, will work wonderfully for this! So, I thread the machine
with DecoBob on the top and in the bobbin and start quilting
the background.
As I quilted, I noticed the top thread looks like it’s tighter and
tighter. All of a sudden, there’s a huge crash and my needle
looked like this:
Practice what you preach
I realized that I hadn’t followed my own advice and, in my haste
to get quilting, forgot to put the top DecoBob on the thread
holder instead of leaving it on the top thread pin. Since I also
forgot to put a WonderGuard on the spool, the slippery threads
slid off the spool and wrapped around the thread pin. Once I got
the WonderGuard thread guard on the spool and put it on my
thread holder off the machine, things worked much better!
Closeup of machine stitching on the leaves
I used DecoBob to to do the quilting in both the white background and in the outer pink border. As you can see the thread
blended in well with both! I used one of my variegated pink
Fruitti threads to quilt the ski nny inner border.
The bent needle
DecoBob on the thread holder
The completed machine quilting on the wall hanging
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