Where is a good place to get good thread?
06-04-2014, 08:28 AM
#11
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Location: Hernando FL
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I love Aurifil for piecing hands down. I get it at Fabric.com. Their price is competitive if not lower than other places and they have free shipping for $35 or more order. I stick with neutrals - gray, tan, white. Fabric.com has a nice selection of fabric as well.
A lot of my friends love Connecting Threads for their thread. I recently bought a spool but haven't used it much. I will use it to quilt. I don't like Aurifil for quilting so much because it is a thin thread and I like quilting to show a bit more than it does with that thread. I usually don't have a $50 order to Connecting Threads for free shipping so usually go in on an order with some friends. I do like their fabric as well.
For colors if I'm trying to match I try to hit JoAnn's on sale with Gutermann thread. If I'm in desperate need of thread I'll go to Walmart which is only 3 miles away and buy Coats and Clark. JoAnn's is 30 miles. I try not to run out however.
A lot of my friends love Connecting Threads for their thread. I recently bought a spool but haven't used it much. I will use it to quilt. I don't like Aurifil for quilting so much because it is a thin thread and I like quilting to show a bit more than it does with that thread. I usually don't have a $50 order to Connecting Threads for free shipping so usually go in on an order with some friends. I do like their fabric as well.
For colors if I'm trying to match I try to hit JoAnn's on sale with Gutermann thread. If I'm in desperate need of thread I'll go to Walmart which is only 3 miles away and buy Coats and Clark. JoAnn's is 30 miles. I try not to run out however.
06-04-2014, 09:19 AM
#12
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 303
I get my thread from redrockthread.com. They have a lot of the major brands. I buy Aurafil and they carry all the different weights and colors. I have had good service from them when I order. You might want to give them a try.
06-04-2014, 09:23 AM
#13
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Colorado, USA
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I'm with Sewnoma... it irks me that fabric.com doesn't put the thread # on their Aurifil choices. I have an order coming this week - and I need to mark those spools (somehow) with what fabric.com calls them so I can re-order the same thing. Annoying.
It's nice getting it for about $2-$3 less a spool than the LQS's... and don't think that the LQS's don't get their share of $$ from me... lol... my last binge there was $200 by the time I let my granddaughter munchkin get some FQs, too.
It's nice getting it for about $2-$3 less a spool than the LQS's... and don't think that the LQS's don't get their share of $$ from me... lol... my last binge there was $200 by the time I let my granddaughter munchkin get some FQs, too.
06-05-2014, 05:34 AM
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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I have a sort of similar gripe with CT thread...the colors aren't on the spool anymore once you take the wrapping off. That bugs me too. For a long time I tried to keep little labels with each spool but they got lost track of and so now all my thread is just there in a bin and I have no idea what color is what. I wish they would at least sell a color chart, so when I need to reorder a particular blue, I could figure out which one it is.
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