mcadwell

My neighborhood had it's annual garage sale day. At one place I was able to procure an entire plastic tote of good, new thread, on modern spools, for $27.00 (I talked them down from $42 because $27 was all I had on me.) The spools, in every color of the rainbow, were all jumbled together. Mettlers, Sulky, Gutermanns, Dual Duty and Coats and Clark.

Only a few of the spools had been used - you can tell because the thread is loose on those ones. Each one that's loose I've been pulling on the thread to see how easy it is to break and only two really old ones (that have $0.50 on the labels) have broken.

I could NOT believe it!

I'll never have to buy thread again (yes, I know that's a lie but it doesn't seem that way right now). And I don't have room for all of it! LOL (Gee, what a problem.)

So far I haven't been looking at weight or TEX (I hate trying to compare TEX to weight!) and just separating all of it by brand. Then I'll go back through all of them and separate by weight, then again by color, cotton/poly and sheen. And I've already ordered more spool holders.

It made me realize that I'm still so new to quilting that I don't know the differences between all these brands. I mean, is Sulky better at one thing and Mettlers better at another or are they all pretty much comparable?