I get mine from jhittle.com too. Good price on Aurifil thread & free shipping on orders over $100. Get some friends to order and you'll get to $100 easily. My friends love it also.

thanks for the great info

Ditto on the Mettler. I've been using it for years and I tried Masterpiece from Superior. The Masterpiece is so much better. I'll give Aurifil another try, I just don't have enough colors yet.

My Bernina 830 loves it too, slowly gettin lots of colors but sew mostly with nuturals.

Love this forum! Just ordered from the Canadian company and got 6 spools including shipping to the US for $6 each. Thanks for the information. By the way, my machine (Bernina QE) loves Aurifil and I love how perfect the stitch looks each time.

I've used YLI Soft Touch 60 wt for piecing for years. I ordered the cones, but I'm having trouble finding the cones in anything but neutral colors now, so I may try the Aurifil and see if I like it better. The YLI is also great for applique. I may continue to buy it in the smaller spools for that.

You might want to try putting wax on your thread if you are having trouble with it knotting up. Just get a block of bee's wax and run the thread over the edge of it.

Question for hand quilters: what ply do you use for hand quiting? and do you use 50 wt?

I just purchased a couple spools on ebay in the color I use--$7.60 each and $2.50 shipping for the 2.

I have aurifil but have gone to all Superior thread line.

I just found it at pumpkinvinecorner.com. It is 8.79 a spool. They have all the different wts, and a lot of colors. They even have the big cones. I have never ordered from here before, but it looks pretty good. Anyone else ever order from here? I'm not sure about the shipping cost yet.

For hand quilting, I use a quilting thread especially for hand quilting. It has a coating on the thread so it is strong and glides through the layers.

Aurifil is a brand name of thread. Genziana Cotton Mako and Tre Stelle Oro Cotton and Aurifil are all the same thread. I remember when Aurifil was introduced to the US quilt market a few decades ago. Two women were on several tv quilt shows at the time promoting the Italian thread being imported to the US. I buy Aurifil and Genziana here:http://www.tristan.bc.ca/cart/home.p...ction=0&page=2

Thanks, everyone. Read all the reviews and bought some. You are right about piecing.

I was using Gutermann, and the mini iron got too hot and melted it, and couldn't pull stitches out even without pressing.

With the Aurifill, I could grab the bobbin thread and pull!. It goes through the fabric like a hot knife in butter. Maybe it doesn't have as many slubs?

The Gutermann cotton thread melted???
That's the one I buy.

Cotton should not melt ... my guess is that she must have been using a rayon or perhaps polyester Gutterman thread.

My local quilt shop owner recommended the Aurifil for piecing about a year ago. It took me a year to finish the spool - the orange base size which costs about $10.49. I love how it works in my Janome, no breaks, no lint, no tangles. 5 stars from me.

Thats what I was thinking. I use the cotton . I don't think I have any poly by gutermann

I'm really tempted by the Tristan site but was wondering if anyone in the US who has ordered could let me know what the import duties, taxes & other clearance charges were? I had a really bad experience trying to send someone in Canada some fabric. She refused the fabric, understandably, because the "custom fees" was about $40, so I returned her money (less than the original fabric cost). I also lost the shipping charges and the fabric was never returned to me. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished :)

It was poly Gutermann. I also sew garments/curtains and it works for that. Most quilt stores here either have their own preferred brand of thread, sometimes depending on whose machines they carry, or just carry fabric. Try finding anything different in Joannes, Hancock or Hobby Lobby. I prefer Metrosene for garments, but you can't find a large spool here. The shop where I bought the thread is also a Bernina dealer and the thread is in with Bernina.

I'm not dissing any dealer - they have to sell, support and believe in what they sell. But this post didn't solicit any dealer-type praise for the thread. You mostly found it worked on your own and said so.

I was using the long skinny plate for the Mini iron as I'm tired of accidently burning fingers or not being able to see what I'm doing. I'm not nearsighted, just like having things right under my nose. The skinny plate just covers 1/2" or an open 1/4" seam.

I buy my Aurifil thread through Tristan threads out of Canada. they have some great deals and with paying for shipping and such the cost is still lower than buying it locally. http://www.tristan.bc.ca/cart/home.php

My machines love it...it is very strong, but thin...and doesn't leave much lint. I think my only drawback would be a bit limited in some of the colors...but that's OK.

There's no limitation in the colours or shades of the colours ... only that your local supplier may not be stocking them!

I use Aurifil for both piecing and quilting. I have a robotic quilting system and the one thing you don't want is a breakage while quilting. That means you have to stop and go back ... my machine loves it in the bottom and on top, it's great. And I don't use a lot of colors either, I use light nuturals for about everything. Just my thought, Mona~

I buy it at Sue's SewEZ Designs online. Super fast shipping and good prices. Love that thread, it is not linty.

Ditto, I love the low lint!!!!

After reading all the comments here I finally bought a spool of Aurifil. Well! It only took sewing a few seams to fall in love with this thread! It just FEELS good! And I can almost hear my sweet Brother say, "thank you.....now go get rid of all that cheap thread you have in the drawer!" Thanks QBers for all your raves about this thread!

I just purchased some Aurifil thread in 50 & 40 weight. Will 40 wt work for FMQ? What is the difference between these two weights?

I'm glad you like it. I started using it a few years ago because I couldn't get my blocks to be the right size. My teacher checked my cutting and seams and they were right. She then suggested this thread because of it being only two ply it makes a difference when you have several seams in a block. I was amazed at how my blocks were turning out after I started them. I used it to do cross-hatchin on fabric that I quilted for a jacket and I had no problems with it. I have the viking mega quilter and the viking rep said they recommend this thread for it. I never have to touch my settings and I love the fact that there is low lint too. Save the cheap thread incase you want to practice FMQ or something that doesn't require having the good stuff in it. Like maybe even just basting or something like that.