As someone stated, you can buy the Organ brand titanium topstitch needles at discountembroidery.com or at Allbrands.com or at the Yahoo Needle Coop Group (look under Yahoo groups) and probably other places for less than half the price of the Superior needles. About $60 for 100 needles for Organ - this is the case where it pays to go in with a sister sewer or two and buy the needles in bulk. I love my Organ needles but buy the Superior Brand for their smaller (size 70) needles which I don't use as often but I do buy the size 12, 14 in larger quantities since I am almost using these needles exclusively for all my sewing (embroidery, quilting, patchwork, metallic threads). I love Superior Threads, but it is hard to justify spending over twice as much for needles. Someone in an earlier post stated that Organ made the Superior needles, I haven't been able to verify this anywhere else but found that Schmetz does not have a titanium coated topstitch needle in my online search.