Aurifil Threads, which colors are a must have.
 

I love Aurifil! I guess it depends on what you tend to make. I use a lot of soft yellows, creams, white, black, gray, tan, blues - especially turquoise. I love the variegated colors too.

There are some others colors that blend in really well. I don't have a spool with me right now, but it is kind of a cinnamon color. That one works well for many piecing colors. I like the light and darker grey too. I find I don't use much of the really light colors. I tend to piece more medium colors than really light, so I use more of those colors.
Have fun shopping. With the thread being thinner, it goes a long way. It's really good for the actual quilting too.

Look at your fabric stash. Buy those colors.

i have (on hand at all times) light and dark gray- cream- white, black, taupe (natural)
then i keep adding colors- each time i place an order for re-stocking the basics i add a couple new colors- since i work in many, many colors regularly and i never know when someone is going to call-and say i want bright green thread - or what do you have in purple---i'm trying to have a good selection- when i find a special with a 'collection' of colors i buy it- i'm up to 60+ colors now- :)

i like it to just finished quilting a quilt with a dark brown and light tan varigated worked well since the quilts was tans creams browns and reds. am putting a quilt on the frame that im going to be quilting with a red orange yellow varigated. i like aurifil not much breakage and not to much lint i was using some other threads and had alot off breakage.

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

I tend to use a lot of the cream shades and black for piecing. I have some other colors I bought for fun.

I use tan and silver for most things but have slowly started buying some of the other colors. Love their thread!

20 dollars dosen't seem so high for shipping these days. I just bought a book and it was 4.95 for a little book. I would go for the thread, it would still be less than 1/2 price, can't beat that!

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.

Wow! If they were colors I was interested in I would have jumped at that offer. I went to their website and didn't see that particular set of spools :(

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.

Do you use it on your domestic machine or a long arm?

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

Just make sure you know these are the small spools 220 yds not the large ones that are 1422 yds.

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. And for those that asked I use a domestic machine.:)

$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

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

Your speaking my language love civil war fabrics!!

I've been using the 50wt Aurifil for piecing and love it for quite a while now. I recently got a long arm machine and Aurifil is made for it! 50wt is thin, so doesn't show up my 'beginner' stitches in a bad way. It is strong enough, that I've not had it break yet. The 1300mt spool is nearly a mile long, so even though it costs a similar price to a spool of King Tut, the yardage is over double. I can quilt a king size quilt with just a couple of spools and that includes in the bobbin too! But the best part is the low lint factor. King Tut is "low lint", yet the lint builds up quickly on my long arm. The Aurifil makes lint practically non-existant. Aurifil won me over, that's for sure!

I love the prices at Tristan Italian Threads.

Here it is: http://tristan.bc.ca/cart/home.php?cat=38 I bought several of the door crasher boxes. The price can't be beat anywhere. The Grab bags are great for different colors.

I love this thread!!!!I usually piece with cream or gray. I also use it to applique. I go in with a few friends for different colors and divide between us (wind on bobbins).

Thanks for the link, their prices are amazing. Now I can't decided which colors to buy:rolleyes:, decisions, decision.

I am one of those quilters who don't match the threads to my fabrics when piecing. My suggestions would be, 3 shades of grey, 1 navy, 3 shades of cream, and 1 white, and look at your stash for top quilting colors. I am hand piecing 2 quilts using a tan, and I love it. The pieces are darker, but the thread color blends with the deep cream sashing. I am using aurifil as the top thread in my sewing machine (I call it dirty white) , and using up the thread on my bobbins in my stash before I try aurifil in my bobbins. I am thrifty, and my Janome doesn't seem to care.

Wow, these prices are fantastic. thank you for this link!!!

Another Question...it looks like they have a limited selection, or I am I missing something? I can't find just a plain black or grey or white.

I don't know what to suggest for colors, other than to say that our most popular sellers are the 2310 light beige, and the black.

The most popular colors sell out as fast as they are put on the website. I found any hues of beige or gray will work fine for piecing.