Embroidery Thread advice
05-24-2012, 03:32 PM
#21
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I have a Brother, white & Viking. I have used many different kinds, includint poly from threadart. funny but most of them were fine but sometimes Brother balks. different mcahine act differntly to thread. I use rayon on shirts etc but on wahsable like dishtowerel & the new craubbies by Dc I used poly. Daughter is doing bas & she used poly. Holdas up better Try some out before investing in a sampler. I have a ot of colors--navys that i never use.
05-24-2012, 05:18 PM
#23
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I recently tried Thread Art Polester. It's quite inexpensive, but so far it works fabulous with my machine. I can't remember for sure but I believe a 1000 yard roll is under $3. Several of us are now using it and like it alot. www.threadart.com
05-24-2012, 05:39 PM
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Hope that you will heed the great advice from the above posters and start small instead of buying in bulk initially and learning that you, or even more importantly in my opinion, your machine, doesn't like the thread. A while back I bought a large amount of beautiful thread from Metro Threads. It works really well with my Janome MC11000, but my Baby Lock Sophia doesn't like it a bit. She will only tolerate Robinson-Anton. That makes me really wish I personally knew the poster above who noted that she had thrown away all of her RA thread. Almost made me cry!!!
05-25-2012, 11:15 AM
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We are all so different; I have great luck with this one. You'll find you'll use different ones for different projects. Rayon if for that shine, but sometimes you'll use cotton and for all these different threads you'll have to have different needles to play with because just because one needle says it plays well with one thread it will also depend on the stablizier you are using. Don't go big until you figure out what projects you'll do and what colors you may use more than others. I know that you want to just jump in there and get it all but I'd hold off. Even stabilizers are different from brands to brands. I've just recently found out about one for use on top of towels instead of water soluable called melt and something, can't remember. What makes it better for towels is that what is under the stitches stay and what's not stitched down melt away with a low iron. By it staying under the stitches your design stays better. I hope we all have helped with all of our opinions; which is what you asked for. HA HA
05-25-2012, 11:17 AM
#29
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I just went to a class with a Viking educator and she said it wasn't a matter of a machine preferring certain thread it's a matter of finding the right needle to make it happy. Just food for thought.
05-27-2012, 06:38 AM
#30
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I took a class on the weekend, because I wasn't able to drag my Baby Lock Ellisimo out to the shop, they let me use the Big Bernina, boy I have to say, you are right it was very tempermental, I am sure glad I didn't buy that machines. I came home and thanked God that I purchased the Baby Lock Ellisimo, what a different, and my machine is also a very expensive machine.
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