I am another Glide polyester lover. It's a 40 weight. The price is usually very reasonable. I couldn't justify paying $30+ for King Tut when I could buy Glide for $10~12 and for the same amount of thread. Pooling the thread is my only way to figure out which thread I want to use. Laying the cone on the quilt and seeing the thread spread out is like day and night. fyi....If you iron after quilting, which I never do, you do have to turn your iron temp down a bit. Too hot of an iron can melt the polyester.
I do wind my own bobbins. A badly wound bobbin can play havoc with the quilting. If one winds poorly, I will just rewind the thread to another bobbin, paying attention that the thread stays snug on the bobbin. My older Nolting like the Glide and it doesn't always like other brands, so I stick with what my old man likes.
Edited to add:
I looked up the cost of the threads....they have went up since I last bought them. King Tut is running about $25 for 2000 yards....Glide is running about $20 for 5000 yard cones. Still a significant savings.
I was dumb and bought a dozen cones of Glide for $7 a cone when I came upon a sale years ago, and didn't know that my machine might not like it. At that time, I didn't know that some machines had a preference. "smile" I felt so fortunate when I tried quilting with it and it worked quite well.
Last edited by Barb in Louisiana; 07-14-2019 at 07:03 AM.