Waaaah. Sorry, Bev. I didn't see your question. Water-soluble thread as a
help to machine stitching a binding goes this way.
After you've stitched the binding on by machine and it's time for the
dreaded marathon of handstitching the other edge:
You put in a bobbin full of the water-soluble thread. On top goes a
thread that's easy to see and (later) remove. White is good.
Machine stitch your binding so that it is neat at the corners and even
everywhere else. Think of this as basting.
Then ! You can remove the water-soluble bobbin thread, change to a
different matching or contrasting thread with a fancy stitch and stitch the
binding down without any slip-sliding or wandering. The 'white+
water-soluble' forces every inch of that binding to be still and perfect.
When you wash the quilt, the water-soluble bobbin thread will disappear
and let you take that white basting thread out just quick as a wink.
Well... maybe not that quick but really easily.
Sometimes, I enjoy handstitching the binding - sometimes there's just
not time like when the Yorkie has wet toes and the oven timer is dinging,
the phone ringing and well, you know. Polly



"Bev in TX" wroteOn Dec 3, 5:53 pm, "Polly Esther" wrote:
L... I especially like using the water-soluble on the SM to
make a binding be still so I can machine stitch the binding down neatly.
Polly

How do you use water-soluble thread to do that?
Thanks
Bev in TX