I have had this thread for sometime – not sure why I originally purchased it but maybe just because it is so pretty! This is Colors by YLI, a variegated cotton thread that is quite thick. It is a 30 wt. 3 ply thread so used a size 16 topstitch needle and increased the stitch length to 2.5. The stitching on the left in the photo below has very bad tension. I decided to re-thread the top thread and re-thread the bobbin before fiddling with the tension which I had set at 3.75. That did the trick so am thinking that the top thread had not been in the tension discs when I first started stitching. The second photo shows the back of the sample with the very poor tension on the right side.
I again used Bottom Line thread in the bobbin and the sample has Mountain Mist White Rose 100% cotton batting. As you can see this is a very small sample as I didn’t want to waste much of this thread since it was heavier there would not be as much wound on the spool in the first place. I also found that when quilting with this thread I had better results when quilting at a slower speed. The variegated color ranges from very dark to very light so I will want to keep this in mind when I use it on a real quilt. It does make a bold statement though and the thread is pretty smooth and free of excess lint.
Until Later,
Lynn
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