Im about to quilt muy quilt...I can't remember wheat king of thread to use. Embridery thread or machine quilting thread does to work if you are doing an embroidery design ? Any advice will be welcome

Embroidery thread is much finer and suits all embroidery designs. Be careful if you choose a thicker cotton thread as it is not as strong for fast stitching and will build up thickly and spoill your design. Some RW is suitable for thicker/cotton but then still slow machine down.
A lot also depends on when you stitch your design before or after layering with batting and backing.
I do my designs first on single thickness (before the sandwich).
Happy Stitching!

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by emily16838 02 Jul 2012

Thanks

by pennyhal 02 Jul 2012

I'm a little confused. Are you embroidering a design on the quilt sandwich? Are you embroidering a design on quilting fabric before you assemble the quilt before you assemble the sandwich? Are you embroidering an all over quilting design intended to stitch all three layers together?

share some photo's as you go and when finished in the project section.

I am sure if you follow the advice of debleerl you will be fine as I have used both with designs on a quilt. If you are doing Redwork, I would try machine quilting threads. However, I think it is more of a personal choice. I just like the old-fashioned look of cotton thread on a quilt.

Egad I was rushing when I posted this because my husband was calling me , I'm surprised anyone knows what I asked LOL he was making Daiquiris I swear I didn't have any before my post :D

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by rescuer 02 Jul 2012

I just wanted you to know, this comment made me laugh so much my family had to read it too. Any time I try to type while someone is calling me -- it is so messed up. lol Your post made complete sense to me.

It depends on the density of the design and how you want it to show up on the quilt. Test stitch it on the same thickness of fabric and batting as the quilt. Preferably scraps of the same fabric and batting if you have enough. See which you like better. You can always use the test stitch-outs for matching pillow convers.

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by emily16838 01 Jul 2012

Thanks

by 1sewnsew 02 Jul 2012

thanks