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I bought my first spool of Aurifil a while ago, loved it so much I immediately placed an order for more colors AND for the color card. The color card has really come in handy!!
BTW - the best prices I've seen online for Aurifil is as http://www.sewezdesigns.com/Aurifil2.html. If you find a better price, let me know! Oh. For colors that blend easy into multi-colored pieces I like: medium grey #2620, dark grey #2625, and light grey #2615 (#2600 is a little too "silvery"), and in the brown/taupe range I like: medium #2326, and light #2312. These are my "go to" colors when I'm working multiple color fabric (either in one piece or different pieces). Remember that if you have to choose, always go darker as the thread will "hide" better in the "shadow" of the seam. If I want to use colors for quilting, then I match the color to what I want using the color chart. |
Originally Posted by gollytwo
(Post 4874583)
If you're in Canada, there's a great buy of a "Jelly Bean Doorcrasher" - 66 spools Aurifil cotton mako 50 wt for $78 (discounted from $214). A friend and I were planning to buy - but the shipping to the USA is $20.
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I only use it for piecing so I have a beige, light grey, medium grey and dark grey. One of those will blend in with any blocks that I piece.
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Originally Posted by pinkberrykay
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I just bought my first spool of Aurifil thread and I am in LOVE!!!! Since there are over 200 colors which colors are your to picks. I am thinking black, natural, navy, blue, pink, grey~but which ones since there are so many colors in each area.
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This really depends on what you are doing. I do the natural, taupe and black and only recently white. The first two are for piecing; it's all that I use for that. I love it for appliquing so I'm slowing getting more colors including the varigated ones. Start with the basics, then the ones you seem to use the most and go from there. I agree it is great. Viking recommends it for the mega quilter but my teacher recommened it way before that when I had a hard time getting my small blocks turning out the right size. It's amazing the difference one strand of thread makes. Then theres the added bonus of not having to worry about the lint. I recently got a Ruby and have used it a little with embroidery and it's great there as well. Enjoy
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Just make sure you know these are the small spools 220 yds not the large ones that are 1422 yds.
Originally Posted by gollytwo
(Post 4874583)
If you're in Canada, there's a great buy of a "Jelly Bean Doorcrasher" - 66 spools Aurifil cotton mako 50 wt for $78 (discounted from $214). A friend and I were planning to buy - but the shipping to the USA is $20.
http://www.tristan.bc.ca |
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. And for those that asked I use a domestic machine.:)
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$20 isn't bad for the cost of the thread at all to the US, when I buy fabric my shipping cost is normally between $4.95 to $12 for a package. I have the threads in gray, cream, blue, neutral and black
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good for you....I too LOVE this thread! I have the basics, and then since I sew mostly darker colors have been buying the cones of blues, greens, burgundy and gold...basic civil war colors right.....:o
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Your speaking my language love civil war fabrics!!
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
(Post 4878133)
good for you....I too LOVE this thread! I have the basics, and then since I sew mostly darker colors have been buying the cones of blues, greens, burgundy and gold...basic civil war colors right.....:o
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