Superior Threads sold!?
01-12-2024, 06:53 AM
#24
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Cedar Falls, IA
Posts: 926
Yes, the Purcells sold it while the wife was battling cancer. Their suppliers still work with the original company, and knowing how Japanese firms work, I imagine they always will. Bob Purcell now owns YLI, another thread company.
01-12-2024, 09:48 AM
#25
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: So. Ca desert
Posts: 152
They are going to be a Roads to California next week. I am going and they are one of the vendors I plan on going to for my longarm thread. It will remain to be seen what they have stocked and the pricing!
01-12-2024, 08:45 PM
#26
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,585
I wouldn't call it fretting...I would call it a case of "don't know what could happen since it's owned by an investment firm (and investment firms are known to sell companies) so we don't know what the future could hold and I hope to find another thread I like as much as Superior Threads just in case this happens" type of thing.
Maybe a better question to ask is, what threads, other than Superior, do the rest of us use?
For longarming, I use Innovatech and Glide, in addition to Superior's King Tut, Bottom Line, and Microquilter. I don't much care for Aurifil, it seems to tangle easily and the tension is fiddly. It's also hard to locate in my area. I do know other quilters who swear by it.
For piecing, I almost exclusively use Bottom Line. If Superior ever quit making it, then I would look for a 40 wt poly thread elsewhere.
01-13-2024, 10:32 AM
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lake Elsinore, CA
Posts: 15,265
Lol semantics, I guess. Anyway - my point is: this event happened several years ago, Superior is still making thread, and I don't really see the benefits of worrying about something that hasn't happened.
Maybe a better question to ask is, what threads, other than Superior, do the rest of us use?
For longarming, I use Innovatech and Glide, in addition to Superior's King Tut, Bottom Line, and Microquilter. I don't much care for Aurifil, it seems to tangle easily and the tension is fiddly. It's also hard to locate in my area. I do know other quilters who swear by it.
For piecing, I almost exclusively use Bottom Line. If Superior ever quit making it, then I would look for a 40 wt poly thread elsewhere.
Maybe a better question to ask is, what threads, other than Superior, do the rest of us use?
For longarming, I use Innovatech and Glide, in addition to Superior's King Tut, Bottom Line, and Microquilter. I don't much care for Aurifil, it seems to tangle easily and the tension is fiddly. It's also hard to locate in my area. I do know other quilters who swear by it.
For piecing, I almost exclusively use Bottom Line. If Superior ever quit making it, then I would look for a 40 wt poly thread elsewhere.
