Hi Everyone! 
                       Right off the bat, I have a question for everybody............
                                I have begun the quilting on the oak leaf wall hanging.

  I'm using the "stitch-through-tracing-paper" method, as it seems the best method for the section I'm quilting.  I'm doing it, as a usually do, with white thread. There are three borders on this, and I may do them in different thread colors, but that's not my question today.

                 Here's a shot of it, even though it's not completely "cleaned up."   Most of the time, I'm pretty satisfied with the design I use.......anyhow, here's the question....I have seen many, many photos of quilts with gorgeous quilting work!  I greatly admire the work, but I've noticed that some stand out more than others.  And to me, the ones that stand out are those in which the THREAD seems to be sort of "chunky."  It's hard to describe what I'm trying to say.  When you view the photos, it almost seems as if the quilter has used a fine crochet thread to do the quilting!  Some of it is done on a longarm, some on a regular machine.

(Above picture borrowed from this blog:  http://ivoryspring.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/quilting-around-the-block-in-quilters-world-february-2011/)
                 And the thing is, I LOVE that look!  Now......why does the quilting look this way in some photos?  Are these quilters using a kind of thread that's actually THICKER than regular thread?  Is it just the way the photo was taken?
            I have to admit....I dearly love to gaze at photos of quilting closeups.  I'm sort of a texture freak, and there's so much texture in beautiful quilting! 
       Nevertheless, if this is a certain kind of THICKER thread, I would love to try it!  Can anyone tell me anything about this?  I have heard of the thread called Aurafill.  I have never seen it, but is this the thread being used for this kind of lay-on-the-surface-all-proud-and-beautiful quilting?

      Anyhow.....I'm going to try to get the quilting done on the oak leaf today.  It's probably all I will get to.  I've put off the cleaning, and forgot to pay the maid this week, so she won't be in. It's up to me, and when it's up to me, I get it done as fast as possible, delegating as much as possible as I go along!

       So I guess I'll see ya'all later!