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07-15-2012, 08:17 AM
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rrhaigh
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For piecing I use Aurifil 50 wt cotton. The gals in my friendship quilting group all use Aurifil as well. We have Pfaffs and Janomes.
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I hand quilt and figured the more epensive thread must be better..I was wrong..I went back to my Coats and Clark and have less breakage and fraying
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My sewing machine is so picky and every thread I tried kept breaking until I tried Gutermann cones. Now I have no breakage. But it has to be the cones!
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I tried Gutermann (see my post) and it worked fine. Stocked up today at JoAnn's since it was 40% off.
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