opinions on thread
 

In your opinion:

1) which brand of cotton thread produces the Least amount of lint?

2) do you prefer cotton or polyester for the quilting (not piecing)?

TIA

1) Aurifil
2) Tough one. I want to say cotton, but I really like Glide.

I ditto wishfulthinking! Aurifil and Glide (poly)

I really can't answer the first question, as I only use Coats and Clarks for piecing on my featherweight. I clean the bobbin area with the change of about every two or three bobbins, some lint but not a whole lot. I only use A&E Permcore which is a poly for quilting on my Gammill.

I love Glide thread for machine quilting but for hand quilting I love a good cotton thread. I do wax my thread as I hand stitch which cuts down on lint or wear on the thread as you are stitching.

My favorite thread is Masterpiece by Superior, but I use a variety. Connecting Threads cotton was my linty one.

I prefer poly thread, mostly any of the 50 wt Superior ones. People say Aurifil is low lint, but I recently used a red one and the lint was terrible. It might be certain colors because white and gray aren’t bad.

keeping in mind it isn't just thread that causes lint, fabric is made of threads, and a lot of it is linty...particularly if you aren't a prewasher. I clean out my bobbin case every third bobbin and haven't found any thread brands to be a problem, my machines love them all.

I can piece with Aurifil, Craftsy or Connecting Threads. Haven't had the opportunity to try Glide Or Superior. My quilting machine only likes Craftsy for some strange reason.

My favorite threads for piecing are Aurifil and Bluprint's brand (forgot the name of it)
Not too experienced with machine quilting thread yet.

I prefer Aurifil and use it on my Janome and my featherweight. Don't seem to have much lint.

I decided on the brand of thread I liked and that's all I buy. Too many good brands to keep up with them all. It's simplifies my life. I piece with Wonderfil and machine quilt with Omni. I use Sew Fine in the bobbin for piecing and quilting. I do have specialty thread but most from Superior or Wonderfil. I have used Glide and like it but my go to quilting thread is Omni.

this subject usually makes me chuckle.

and it makes me happy there are so many brands on the market so everybody can find one or two they like the best.

personally, i have never found connecting threads to be any more or less linty than nearly every other brand i've tried.
it certainly fits well into my budget.

i do like YLI [cotton] very much and am also tickled pink by the Tex 21 glace' cotton i got from wawak.com.

i comfortably use whichever of those i have in the right color for piecing.

for quilting ... anything goes. :-)

I piece with a variety of threads--but prefer Coats and Clark for sewing down the binding on the back by hand--never tangles or shreds for me. On the long arm, I prefer SoFine #50 (so does my Gammill!) but use YLI and King Tut, Permacore, Omni,Glide and Magnifico. I seem to have to make more tension adjustments with the Glide& Magnifico.

Aurifil
since I longarm Quilt I use mostly polyester thread for quilting. Cotton doesn’t hold up to the high speed machine- it breaks constantly.