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Hi me again as promised the information re invisible thread.

As you know I had lotssss to finish and most of it was appliqué. It got over welling so I decided to do it all by machine. Then I thought of having to change all the thread colours so it would look right. Again everything went to the back burner,  then someone mentioned invisible thread. This I thought may work so I did a bit of investigating.

Some like it, but some don't because it shines and I found out some of the threads melt when ironed and so I did more investigating. As it happens about the time I started looking at this method there was a book being published called "The Modern appliqué work book" by Jennifer Dick. So I checked out all the blog posts I could fine.  It was also birthday time so I received a book voucher so an ebook was given.  I asked all the great ladies at the local quilt group, in my town what they thought and then went looking for the different threads to try. 6 shops later I found some I found two of the brands recommended and it was hard to find.

Home they came and I threaded the invisible at the top and normal thread grey at the bottom and experimented with different stitches. Settled on invisible hem stitch and got started. yes it shines at times. You can use dusky thread for darker colours but I just used the same one for everything.
The Sulky brand now owned by Gutermann invisible colour 1001 and Superior threads were the ones I tried. I finally got them at Spotlight but tried many local quilt shops first.

I used it for this quilt larger photo in previous post and with so much going on it worked great.