3087 Blue Ice Omni Polyester Thread is the palest blue in the Omni range — crisp ice-light and cool, the tonal thread for pale blues where Baby Blue reads warm and grey reads wrong.
Product Details
- Color: 3087 Blue Ice — pale cool icy blue; lighter and cooler than Baby Blue (3100)
- Thread: 40-weight 3-ply filament polyester, matte finish — lint-free
- Spool: 2,000-yard king
- Machines: All major longarms
- Best on: Ice-blue and pale cool-blue grounds, winter-palette quilts, cool pastel moderns
Frequently Asked Questions
- Blue Ice or Baby Blue Omni — the pale-blue fork?
- Temperature: Baby Blue is soft and warm-leaning nursery blue; Blue Ice is crisp and cool. Winter palettes, icy moderns, and cool-cast pastels take this; classic baby quilts take 3100.
- Its winter-quilt role?
- The snowflake-and-frost thread — on white-and-ice-blue winter quilts it quilts the blue zones tonally while a bright white handles the snow, the standard two-thread winter build.
- How does it read on Robins Egg?
- A cool half-step light — subtle contrast rather than blending; deliberate on some designs, but tonal work on Robins Egg usually wants a closer blue.
- Why matte on pale blue?
- Delicacy — the matte finish keeps quilting on fragile pale tones reading as texture; a lustrous thread at this value flashes.
- Bobbin pairing?
- White Magna-Glide under light backs, or a matched pale blue when the backing carries the color.
