I hope these posts are informative for you…that is what they are meant for…information. This countdown is not meant to be a” hard” sell to you my loyal customers/friends/shop owners/and fellow designers…I just want you all to enjoy quilting and stitching as much as I do…and what better way than to inform you on what I use and why…
Day 10…50wt. Aurifil thread…I have a couple of reasons why this thread is my favorite…First, it is 50wt. but is fine…so it takes up less space in my seam…50/2 means 50 weight thread and it is made using two strands of cotton to make the thread stronger…most 50wt. threads are made up of 3 strands of cotton…so only using 2 strands makes it skinnier!!! …Thicker threads take up room…but this thread is also nice and clean running in my machine. Not a bunch of fuzz in the bobbin area and no felt pad wadding up under my throat plate…
Now I am even picky about what color I use…I use color # 1140- 95% of the time…it is a nice taupe thread that blends nicely with my colored and light prints. One of my biggest peaves is seeing light thread in piecing. I tried to duplicate it here…but my thread is not the 50/3 or something like the big spools of the Star threads that were very popular at one time…
but you see the 50wt is fine so it is not that noticeable…But sometimes I see this beautifully pieced quilt…all those points are matching and the colors are fabulous and then I see it!!! LIGHT thread used in the piecing…drive me crazy!!! The fabulous quilter used a poor choice in her piecing thread…one, it is too thick…another too light! Do you use too light of
thread???
Your piecing should look like this…no visible thread showing in your piecing. I also stitch with a little lower stitch length than what is usually taught. A few other pros for the Aurifil 50wt thread…Because this thread is finer, your bobbins seem to last a LOT longer…Then there is this…If you buy the regular spools they have 1300 meters on them…if you buy the big cones they have 5,900 meters on them…I think we figured out that you get an extra small spool in the large cone for the price of the large one…so like 5 little spools with the price of 4. This thread is also good for machine quilting my little quilts. It comes in a lot of colors to blend with my little quilts and it is fine so it does not jump out at you! I do not have a small spool of my favorite color but I have the black, here is what they look like…I think we carry the large spools in 3 or 4 colors(shown in the last picture)on our site…but we have lots of colors in the
smaller spools Click here to see the Aurifil Thread…they will be on-sale after Christmas…at 25% off…but only what we have in stock at the time…just a heads up on this one…
My favorite thread color 1140 on my machine…
The winner of Day 11 is….comment # 16 …Nick picked #16 it was his baseball number in school/college….Susan G.December 14, 2012 at 10:38 am I see those in the fabric shops and just walk by. I guess I didn’t really know what to use those for. Well now I know. Thanks Lisa.
Susan G…you have WON a precut- 100 piece Thimbles pack…we just finished cutting these…So I quickly stitched something up using them…I used 90 out of the 100 light/dark thimbles for this cute 10×12 mini quilt. So much fun…we will get them on our site soon!!!
Please email me your address so we can send this cute Thimble pack out to you!!!
Didn’t win, but want this precut thimble kit anyway??? Click Here: Thimble Kit, to purchase one for yourself!
