I had heard at a workshop from Nichole Vogelsinger of Wild Boho that Cosmo Italian flosses were her favorite, and so impulsively I bought a bunch of skeins of Cosmo floss from Quilty Box just because they were on sale. However, they were only marked down from $1 to 80 cents. Maybe I thought it would be a superior embroidery thread to DMC floss (it doesn't appear so to me), and when I received the skeins of dull blue floss, I was kind of disappointed. I then remembered that I had wanted to try my hand at Sashiko and thought the Cosmo floss would fill the bill. Nope. I hate to waste, and even though I had heard Tara Faughanan say at a Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild meeting that embroidery thread is not good for quilting, I'm using that blue Cosmo thread on my Constellation Quilt. It occasionally seems to get frayed, but that's okay as the fabrics for my latest quilt are from a big box store, so who knows how well this quilt will hold up to use and frequent laundering.
You can't see the thread very well on the indigo chambray, but wow do they contrast nicely on the lighter fabrics. I like the strong graphic punch of utility quilting. These blocks came together really fast in the sewing and with my stitches about 1/4" on average, the sandwiching is super quick as well. I'll be using mustard and silver #8 perle cotton on this quilt too. Oh and even though using a quilt hoop and a thimble are advised, I don't, preferring instead to stitch on the hard surface of a t.v. tray and using my jewelry needle nose pliers to grip that needle when necessary. Thread snips and that's all in the way of tools.
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