Patent ID: 6520389
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
A quilting needle for achieving substantially uniform stitches in a multi-layer substrate, comprising:an elongated straight slender needle body having a substantially cylindrically continuous, uninterrupted outer surface and an eyelet formed at one end thereof sized for receiving a quilting thread there through and a sharp quilting fabric piercing point at another end of said needle body; a viewable stitch size guide permanently disposed on said needle body without substantially interrupting the diameter of the outer surface and positioned from said point a distance equal to a desired stitch size whereby successive stitches formed into the substrate are substantially uniform in size when said needle body, with quilting thread through said eyelet, is consistently pierced through the substrate to a depth defined when said stitch size guide just meets and aligns with an obverse surface of said substrate before piercing said point into a reverse surface of the substrate to complete each stitch.