Best place to buy Aurifil?
#1
Best place to buy Aurifil?
I love Aurifil thread and I buy it online at Wawak because the price was close to half what it costs in stores ($7.65 for the 1400 yard spool). They have discontinued it due to a vendor issue. I love it but I refuse to pay $13.50 for a spool of thread and will use something else unless I can find the 50 wt at a reasonable cost. Where do you recommend? Thanks.
#3
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Oregon
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I love Aurifil thread and I buy it online at Wawak because the price was close to half what it costs in stores ($7.65 for the 1400 yard spool). They have discontinued it due to a vendor issue. I love it but I refuse to pay $13.50 for a spool of thread and will use something else unless I can find the 50 wt at a reasonable cost. Where do you recommend? Thanks.
#5
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,515
Quilt in a Day has Aurifil on a great sale several times a year, usually a neutral color. I have a lot of Aurifil bought over the years when it was about $3 a spool at Tristan online. I would buy 12 spool cases of neutral colors. In fact a poster here posted about Tristan, that's how I found it. Miss those days. LOL I can't believe the price of a spool now. I see a spool of it in the shops and remember heirloom and vintage quilts cherished now were not made with Aurifil.
#6
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: northern minnesota
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I used to get it a Handcock's of Paducah as it was a better price. I just checked, the price has gone up but if you buy more, the price of each spool goes down. They also carry Guetterman and Mettler Silk finish cotton thread which is also 50 weight. I like the Mettler as well
They also have periodic sales
They also have periodic sales
#8
onnecting Threads
I buy online from Connecting Threads. They have both cones and regular size spools. Since it was the first time I bought from them I bought the regular spools 100% cotton quilting thread. I can use it on my Singer or by hand. It was on sale. The Clothing goes to Salvation Army and I bought 12 the first time in various colors for $4/spool. This works for both quilting and clothing for the children that I sew for. Toys go to Toy 4 Tots as my Big brother was a Marine and my church.
#9
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I use to be a thread snob because starting out I listened to all the machine/thread paid spokespeople.. not anymore. I realized it doesn't matter as long as the thread was good quality and my machine liked it and at the price I wanted to pay.