On Wednesday, December 16th, the Fat Quarter Shop had a 24 hour flash sale on Aurifil. After double checking the prices, I realized that if I purchased the large spool Aurifil thread boxes, each large spool of thread would cost $5.50 (after shipping and taxes).
I had just been thinking to myself that I did not have several colors of the rainbow in Aurifil thread (namely: purple), so the V. and Co.’s Simply Colorful box of rainbow delight was the first to go in my shopping cart.
The Simply Colorful thread box contains (12) 50wt large spools (1,422 yards) of Aurifil thread:
- 2105 – Champagne
- 2214 – Golden Honey
- 5003 – Wine
- 4030 – Plum
- 2423 – Baby Pink
- 2535 – Magenta
- 2530 – Blossom Pink
- 2250 – Red
- 1231 – Spring Green
- 2835 – Medium Mint
- 1148 – Light Jade
- 2783 – Medium Delft Blue
I considered several other thread boxes (Angela Walter’s Drift collection was especially appealing), but ultimately I also opted to get the 12 most popular thread colors that were put together especially for the Fat Quarter Shop.
It contains:
- 2605 – Grey
- 2600 – Dove
- 2610 – Light Blue Grey
- 2784 – Dark Navy
- 2370 – Sandstone
- 2325 – Linen
- 2310 – Light Beige
- 2024 – White
- 2326 – Sand
- 2000 – Light Sand
- 2021 – Natural White
- 2692 – Black
In closing, these were the first images that I changed my watermark for; don’t forget it is now 2016 if you watermark your images! I had to go back and re-do these when I realized it. 🙂
Linking up with Sunday Stash.
You picked up some great colours. I wish I would have taken advantage of that deal.
Thread rainbows are always so pretty! Good find catching those on sale, I’m sure all those color will be put to good use. 🙂
I have wanted kits like these forever!! Then I end up getting just the basic neutral colors! I love seeing these sets…rainbow…beautiful color!
I really need to get watermarking my photos…thanks for the reminder!!
You can’t go wrong with $5.50 a spool for Aurifil! (Maybe I should add at watermark to my photos.)
Good Morning Yvonne! The thread colors your chose are very pretty. I hope that you have a fantastic time sewing, quilting and creating with each stitch and every color of thread as you design your way through another year! Have a wonderful creative day!
These are super pretty, and such a good deal!
i picked up a neutral kit also that day. I had a gift card I had won, so it made the most of the gift.
That’s an AMAZING deal! I decided to start buying cones this year (just my three most used colors: sand for piecing and white and dove for quilting), but I would’ve jumped on that too. 😉 I bought a kit similar to your second one once and it was perfection.
I love Aurifil, that was a great deal you got!
Having some thread envy over here! Both boxes are great stash builders, not to mention economically smart.
So many beautiful colors! Such a great score.
Wow! You found a great deal. Way to go!
The international shipping usually stops me from such deals; however I also recently consolidated my Aurifil spools and realized I had several more than I remembered! so a little more quilting is in order before i indulge methinks.
Those are amazing thread scores! I love Aurifil so much. I believe I just swooned from all the pretty colors.
Wow that was a great deal – enjoy stitching with all those colours
beautiful colors! I got the Carolyn Friedlander box for Christmas!
Okay, Yvonne. Tell me what is is you love about Aurifil. I can see the rainbow loveliness for myself, but whenever I’ve used it I couldn’t quite see what the fuss was about.
I picked up some Aurifil during Craftsy’s Black Friday sales. I chose some blues, greys, black and whites. I opted for a cone of a cream colour too. With the exchange rate and crazy shipping costs, I think it only saved me a little, but it’s been worth it quilting with the Aurifil. It’s so nice not to have my thread break all the time.
Question about the watermarks – what program do you use to do it?
Those are some great buys!
That rainbow box looks so pretty, it seems a shame to break into it!