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Quilting Gloves Do you have a favorite brand or style?
kayco   Beginner CA USA Member since 6/3/12 Posts: 73	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/15/12 10:35 PM I've just started FMQ (loving it)and think gloves would help. But I'm not sure what to look for in a glove. Not too warm would be a plus cuz I'm always to warm, but don't really know what to consider. TIA for any insight you might share.
sings2high   Expert/Couture NJ USA Member since 11/25/11 Posts: 144	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/15/12 10:44 PM I go to the gardening center in the spring and pick up some gardening gloves. I like the kind made with a thin air-flow allowing all-over knit fabric along with the dipped-in-latex palm and fingers. It gives me good grippage as well as air-flow. ------ Measure twice, cut once.
aslinnd Beginner AUSTRALIA Member since 5/28/07 Posts: 575	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 1:07 AM I like the Zingers - I think handiquilter features them but you can get them other places they are light enough and grip well
AminaHijabi Advanced Beginner Member since 10/22/10 Posts: 813	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 10:42 AM so far I like the machingers quilting gloves. They don't make my hands hot.
SewBusy63 Advanced IA USA Member since 12/10/07 Posts: 3166	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 10:53 AM I have the Machingers gloves. They do not make my hands hot and I can leave them on to change the thread and bobbin. I find they work very well. ------ ~Diana~ ♥ Bernina 830E ♥ Bernina 1150MDA serger ✝The Lord is my Light and my Salvation: whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1✝
TessKwiltz   Intermediate TX USA Member since 9/21/07 Posts: 1313	Login to reply to this post In reply to kayco << Like this post Date: 10/16/12 11:40 AM I also like Machingers for the reasons SewBusy and others mentioned: they are not as hot as the knit ones with the nubbies and they are thin enough to thread a needle without taking them off. I absolutely have to wear gloves, or my arthritic hands will ache after a bout with fmq. ------ Tess On threadpainting flowers: "How many colors are in a flower? ... How many do you have?" - Ellen Anne Eddy
SouthernStitch   Advanced LA USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 8170	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 11:57 AM Another Machingers fan here. I do find them a bit hot - but most of the time that's due to me having killer Halogen lights under my shelves directly above the machine. I have to turn them on or I can't see as well. MUST get me some LEDs and soon!! ------ Bernina 730E, 530, and 350PE Singer 221 FW, 403a When life gives you green velvet curtains, make a green velvet dress.
Clareew   Intermediate UNITED KINGDOM Member since 5/10/06 Posts: 920	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 12:10 PM I use a Pfaff quilt Grip It is great and my hands stay cool. ------ Clare Blog: http://art-by-clare.blogspot.co.uk/ Machines: Juki F600, Juki 654 serger, Bernina 550 for art work, Janome Coverpro 1000cp barely used A Singer Featherweight Centennial and an old Necci in the loft waiting for TLC http://art-by-clare.blogspot.co.uk/
AminaHijabi Advanced Beginner Member since 10/22/10 Posts: 813	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 10/16/12 3:06 PM I like the quilt halo too for work in small spaces.
Mufffet   Intermediate VT USA Member since 8/14/05 Posts: 8909	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 10/16/12 5:10 PM Well, the Machingers were recommended in the books and on the sites I read and in a class I took. So naturally I bought the cheap FOns and Porter ones. They are O.K...not form fitted and nicely airy as they are cotton. BUT they are too loose, and you cannot get small any more apparently. SO I bought the Grabaroos. Fine, fit O.K...work. Neither of these brands lets you have any fine control over anything else, such as thread endings etc., as they are still like wearing gloves.I ahd heard about cutting the fingers off rubber gloves and using the fingers - from Sue Nickels at a class, so I tried that and didn't like it. FINALLY, I bought Machingers - just forget all that other stuff and BUY MACHINGERS!!! Best money spent on FMQ - you can actually change a needle wearing them. I usually don't but you can. I love them. Note - I also bought a set of The Fabulous Fabric Guide to try instead of gloves, and I found that trying to do FMQ with these at any speed is complicated because the guides get in the way as you go...they are fine for spot embroidery though and perhaps applique. You have to reposition the things way too much. But I don't regret buying different things to try! ------ "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." --Dalai Lama I have sewing machines

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