Where are we buying needles and thread?
03-19-2026, 06:26 PM
#5
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 17,814
I buy Organ needles in bulk at Amazon 100 at a time. For special sizes I may use I buy a few packages. I used to buy lots of different brands of thread and then figured out to buy one brand. Makes it easier. If you know the brand you like buy wherever and whenever there is a sale. I always found JoAnn thread prices to be the highest prices on thread.
03-20-2026, 12:31 AM
#6
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Peoria, IL -- Midwest Transplant
Posts: 7,260
I do very little live in real life shopping and typically check prices on needles, rotary blades, etc. when I am getting other things on Amazon and look/wait for sales for my regular brands/items. I prefer to buy multipacks, it isn't as convenient maybe as picking up one of whatever it is when I'm shopping but I don't typically run out 
I don't buy much thread anymore a few years back I won an auction on a huge lot/lifetime supply of Superior's So Fine thread, I will look at Amazon but I usually go direct to Superior Threads. Last time when I needed some cotton threads in a relative hurry, I ordered (from Amazon) a set of a brand I didn't know which have been fine -- the main thing was I needed all cotton.
I don't buy much thread anymore a few years back I won an auction on a huge lot/lifetime supply of Superior's So Fine thread, I will look at Amazon but I usually go direct to Superior Threads. Last time when I needed some cotton threads in a relative hurry, I ordered (from Amazon) a set of a brand I didn't know which have been fine -- the main thing was I needed all cotton.
03-20-2026, 04:35 AM
#7
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
Posts: 3,980
I searched all over the web for quilting needles as I was breaking a lot of them all of a sudden. But found them on Ebay as I wanted a 100 Groz-Beckert 100/16. I bought 100 embroidery/regular sewing needles years ago and still have plenty of them after all these years. As for quilting thread, I used to buy my cotton spools from Connecting Threads but their prices have doubled in price since the last time I bought it and I have so much of it right now, that I can't use it fast enough before it starts to fray and dried out. As for my embroidery threads, I have a large quanity of Fufu Polyesterday now known as Floriana and again doubled if not tripled in price since I purchased mine. I also have the entire collection of BF Creation's polyesterday threads so I'm good to go for a long, long time. As for regular sewing thread, I acquired my mother's and then another gal's threads who died recently so I'm good with those threads also. Anything that looks too old or breaks easily, I toss out. As for serger threads, I guess I pick them up at Walmart since JoAnne is gone. I don't use the serger much and if I don't have enough of one color thread, I use one of the regular threads in the needles only. Seems to work for me.
03-20-2026, 04:52 AM
#8
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
Posts: 2,814
Wawak. 100 needle boxes in size 70, 80, 90. Plus special "fun" needles. Twins and Triplets, I like to try new things! Thread, I don't know, so I'll watch this thread. lol. I was gifted 6 cones of white thread one Christmas, and I am just now using last one.
03-20-2026, 07:48 AM
#10
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 607
I get my Schmetz needles bulk on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/SCHMETZ-Unive...ef=sr_1_1_sspa
and I get my thread on Red Rock Threads
https://redrockthreads.com/?srsltid=...RyWpyIvbr7IpBv
https://www.amazon.com/SCHMETZ-Unive...ef=sr_1_1_sspa
and I get my thread on Red Rock Threads
https://redrockthreads.com/?srsltid=...RyWpyIvbr7IpBv
