Emma's Garden Quilt

I bought this kit from the Fat Quarter Shop and it's adorable! There was more than enough fabric in the kit, very cute. Hsd to pay special attention to placement and pressing but it was well worth the extra time spent, and the prairie points were a perfect finishing touch to this quilt. See it and the directions in the April 2008 McCall's Magazine.

THREAD

This week I decided to really get into trying different threads, As a rule I have always used mettler's silk finish 50 weight for everything on my machine, and this week I tried using sulky blendable 30 wt in the bobbin with invisible thread on top, and WOW! I loved it, the colors blend in very well, so what i want to know is what everyone uses and how they use it, I am going to try a long staple egyptian cotton next , It's kind of fun to experiment a little, and now i want to know everything about the different types of thread and the applications. Does anyone have or tried the new sidewinder for winding bobbins?