One of the biggest reasons for going to quilt market this year was to launch my Piece and Quilt Thread Collection for Aurifil. This has been a dream of mine a couple of yeas in the making and it feels so great to finally share them with the world!
Christa and Aurifil CBDO Alex Veronelli at Fall Quilt Market 2016
I first began using Aurifil 50 weight cotton back in 2013 after trying out numerous brands, thread weights, and fiber contents. After making dozens of quilts for publication and for family and friends, I can definitely say these threads are prefect for everything I do: piecing, machine quilting, machine applique, and binding.
My favorite thing about sticking with the 50 weight cotton for everything, is that I always have the right color on hand. Plus, any leftover bobbins from machine quilting can get used up when I piece my next scrappy quilt!
The Piece and Quilt Collection comes in both Colors and Neutrals and I really took my time choosing them. I wanted to make sure I offered enough variety that you could literally piece and quilt any quilt with just these two collections:
Piece and Quilt Colors Include:
2425 Bright Pink
2250 Red
4020 Fuchsia
2520 Violet
2130 Medium Butter
1133 Bright Orange
2920 Light Brass
2884 Green Yellow
2886 Light Avocado
1148 Light Jade
2725 Light Wedgewood
2783 Medium Delft Blue
Piece and Quilt Neutrals Include:
2311 Muslin
5021 Bamboo
1246 Dark Grey
5007 Light Grey Blue
2326 Sand
2372 Dark Antique Gold (Brown)
2315 Pale Flesh
2405 Oyster
2024 White
2615 Aluminium
2605 Grey
4241 Very Dark Grey
Color selection tips:
- When you don’t have an exact match, go a shade or two lighter with your thread. A lighter thread on a darker fabric will blend in better than a darker thread on a lighter fabric.
- Use very dark grey instead of black on black fabrics so you can see the texture of the thread rather than having it disappear.
- Use the darker neutrals when piecing dark or very highly saturated fabrics.
- Try out the lighter neutrals like oyster and bamboo (in addition to white and muslin) when piecing lighter to medium colored fabrics.
Ask for my Piece and Quilt Collection at your favorite quilt shop, or get them directly from me at ThePrecutStore.com. I look forward to seeing what you make with them!
Christa Quilts 
Pretty colors.
Love the colors!!!
Both of them are beautiful collections and the neutrals are colors I always use!
Your collections of thread are great and I appreciate how thoughtful you were in putting them together. I agree that with these two boxes of thread you basically have every color that you need.
Congratulations on your new thread collections, Christa! And thanks for the color selection tips!
Beautiful colors!
So lovely and pretty ♥
So happy for you! Your collections are wonderful. I especially like the neutral colors…my “go to” colors for most of my quilting, but I’m trying to step out of the box and use some brighter colors. 🙂 Thanks so much for the great tips!
Congratulations!!! That’s awesome and I love both collections!! Thanks for the tips too!!
Congratulations Christa! The neutrals look so useful, what a fabulous collection ❤️
Congratulations, Christa! Your Aurifil colors are great, and I like that you curated a colors and a neutral collection. You are taking the quilting world by storm, and I’m so very excited for you!
What great collections, Christa! Looks like you’ve got all the possibilities covered 🙂 Congratulations! And thanks for the tips on choosing colors–some super ideas.
I love your color assortments.
Beautiful new Aurifil collections.
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