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MACHINE QUILTING SUPPLIES
The quickest way to finish a quilt is to quilt it
by machine. Learning to free-motion quilt a
quilt, or quilting in any direction by lowering
the feed dogs on your machine, takes some
practice. However, straight line quilting,
which uses a regular sewing stitch and a
walking foot to maintain an even feed, is
easy to master even for a beginner.
For machine quilting, you will use many
of the same supplies as for hand quilting,
including batting, quilting stencils, quilting
tape, and a removable marking pen/pencil
or chalk pounce pad. Unlike hand quilting,
you can use Golden Threads quilting paper,
fusible quilt batting, or 505 Spray and Fix
to prepare a quilt for machine quilting.
Quilting gloves or fingertip grips help you
grip your quilt as you machine-quilt it. Quilt
clips keep the part you’re not quilting rolled
up. Aer quilting, you can machine stitch the
binding down, or hand stitch it with the help
of (8) binding clips.
Choose your needle based on the thread
you want to machine quilt with. A bob-
bin-fill thread (such as YLI Lingerie & Bob-
bin, Superior Bottom Line, Madeira Bobbin-
fil, Robison-Anton Spun Poly Bobbin, Sulky
Bobbin, or Mettler Bobbinfil) is oen useful
when working with certain top threads.
Machine Quilting Supplies
Thread Type Suggested Needle
Monofilament such as Supe-
rior MonoPoly, Sulky Invisible,
or Madeira Monofil. Use a 50
weight cotton or bobbin fill in the
bobbin.
Topstitch 70/10, Quilt-
ing 75/11, Jeans 70/10, or
Sharp/Microtex 70/10 or
60/8
60 weight thread such as Supe-
rior Bottom Line, YLI So Touch,
or Sulky Polylite. Use a 50 wt. cot-
ton or bobbin fill in the bobbin.
Topstitch 70/10, Quilting
75/11, or Sharp/Microtex
70/10 or 60/8
50 weight cotton thread such
as Superior SoFine, Superior
Masterpiece, Mettler Silk Finish,
Madeira Cotona, or Robison-
Anton Super Stitch. Use the
same thread or bobbin fill in the
bobbin.
Topstitch 80/12, Sharp/
Microtex 80/12, or Quilting
75/11
40 weight thread such as YLI
Machine Quilting, Signature Pre-
mium, Superior King Tut, Superior
Rainbows, Mettler Quilting, or
YLI Machine Quilting. Use the
same thread, 30 weight cotton,
or bobbin fill in the bobbin.
Topstitch 90/14, Quilting
90/14, or Sharp/Microtex
90/14
Metallic thread such as Madeira
Metallic Classic, Mettler Metallic,
Signature Metallic, Superior Me-
tallic, Sulky Metallic, Sulky Sliver,
Sulky Holoshimmer, YLI Metallic,
or Madeira Supertwist. Use bob-
bin fill in the bobbin.
Metallic 80/12 or 90/14, Em-
broidery 90/14, or Topstitch
90/14
Rayon and silk thread such as
Madeira Rayon, Signature Rayon,
Madeira Polyneon, Mettler
Polysheen, Superior Kimono Silk,
or YLI Silk. Use the same thread,
60 weight cotton, or bobbin fill in
the bobbin.
Embroidery 75/11 or Top-
stitch 70/10
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