Re thread: My preference is Aurifil. I have several spools of a sort of peachy tan that i got on clearance a few years ago. Still strong, no problem there. But the color... While I used to love CW and darker fabrics, I've shifted to brighter, more vibrant colors - so this thread has languished.
The cones I got last summer at $34 are now $48, and I just found that Aurifil will raise their prices 25% in October. Yikes! I think I'm going to bite the bullet and just use the color I have. Rarely does stitching show. Gylene Fitzgerald said, in a class I took, that people used to have black and white thread, and they used those two colors for everything. I need to use the peachy tan.