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).
Aurifil Thread Boxes: Simply Colorful and a FQS Exclusive Piecing Box
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.
Aurifil Thread Box: V and Co.’s Simply Colorful
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.
Aurifil Thread Box: FQS Exclusive Piecing Box
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. 🙂
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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!