Hi Susan Well this is down to the mysteries of Coats - or Coats & Clarks as I think it is still called in USA. Coats & Clarks in UK ceased in the 1960s.
I haven’t seen this thread, so I had a look on the Coats (UK) website and it’s not there in the list of cotton threads. I changed the location from UK to USA and looked at the list of cotton threads and yes it is there, but a lot of the UK ones are not! Indeed it seems to be two completely different ranges of cotton thread. http://www.makeitcoats.com/en-gb/explore/our-brands/coats http://www.makeitcoats.com/en-us It’s not a particularly easy site to use, but from either link click on the flag at the top to switch to the other one. Then scroll down to the purple bit at the bottom and choose ‘Coats Sewing Threads’ then click on the spool of purple cotton (USA) or the several reels of cotton (UK) UK offers: 4662030 30 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 200m on Spool 4661040 40 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 100m on Spool 4663040 40 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 350m on Spool 4669040 40 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread - Multicolour 350m on Spool 4666040 40 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 800m on Spool 4661050 50 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 100m on Spool 4662050 50 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 200m on Spool 4664050 50 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 450m on Spool 4667050 50 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 1000m on Spool 4665080 80 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 650m on Spool 4668080 80 Coats Cotton Sewing Thread 1300m on Spool USA offers: S970 30 All purpose 206m / 225yards 3 Ply S972 30 Machine quilting 206m / 225yards 3 Ply S975 30 Machine quilting, solids 320m / 350yards 3 Ply S980 20 Hand quilting, glace finish 320m / 350yards 3 Ply V33 30 Machine quilting, multicolour 206m / 225yards 3 Ply V34 30 Machine quilting, solids 1097m / 1200yards 3 Ply V35 30 Machine quilting, multicolour 1097m / 1200yards 3 Ply I guess that you have bought either S972 or S975. It’s a 3 ply thread and being made for machine sewing will almost certainly be Z twist. Looking at other brands of 30/3 cottons (not many of them) it’s likely to be about 23-25 wraps/cm. Indeed it might even be a re-branded version of the size 30 the 'lace thread' they brought out a year or so ago to replace Filato di Cantu. http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/misc/misc.htm about ⅔ of the way down the page. It’s things like this that keep me on my toes! It’s bad enough with the brand name usually being Anchor or Mez in mainland Europe but to find that USA and UK have a totally different range of threads….. and the USA range seems to be only thicker thread for quilting, not the finer size 50 that is usually used for “ordinary” machine sewing. I now need to go in search of Coats 80 sewing thread which I’ve never seen but is apparently available in UK. Brenda On 29 Jun 2014, at 16:16, [email protected] wrote: > The original plan was to use 40/3 YLI cotton but none could be found in Erie > so Plan B was in play. After much discussion with a staff member (silk vs > cotton), I came away with Coats Cotton Machine Quilting 30wt, described > online as "extra long staple Egyptian Giza cotton" thread. Coats explains > that it is "ideal for smaller projects like quilted crafts, wall hangings & > pillows"...with "little or no stretch". Having made mistakes with Brenda's > book before, I wanted to ask if this is a older thread with a different name > or newer thread not yet listed? It is quite smooth & has a nice sheen, > leading me to believe it may have lace potential even if the sewing machine > project doesn't work out. Has anyone used this thread & have an opin! > ion? Brenda in Allhallows [email protected] www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
