Tips for Choosing Thread Colors for Quilting
3 Rules of Thumb Make the Choice a Lot Easier!
Do you tend to get stuck when it’s time to choose the color of the thread you’ll use for quilting your quilt? Or, have you ever been unhappy with the color once the quilting is done?
If you’re like many quilters, you may even use the same safe color for every quilt and would appreciate some help with branching out. After all, there are so many beautiful thread colors out there that it’s a shame not to use them!
Fortunately, three guidelines make thread selection a lot easier. Angela Walters does a great job of demonstrating them in the following video.
She covers the process of selecting thread for quilting dark fabrics vs light, choosing one overall thread vs different threads for each area of a quilt, and more. Even experienced quilters are likely to find her insights helpful.
Click here to watch the video at YouTube if it doesn’t play on your device.
Do you have an answer to remove a yellow mark made from red thread when trying to remove blue marking. Know this in wrong place to ask but really need help. Thank you
It sounds like some of the dye bled from the red thread. Try the tips here: http://quiltingdigest.com/reverse-a-color-bleed-with-this-easy-tip/
This was fascinating and very well explained