ask crafty: cheap floss & adhesive tear-away embroidery stabilizer
Two embroidery related questions for the ask crafty squad (aka anyone reading this). Please comment on this post with your responses:
x hey can anyone tell me where I can find cheap embroidery floss .....either at toronto downtown or online ! - Priyanka
x where in Toronto can you get Adhesive Tear-away Embroidery Stabilizer? I want to embroider on jersey but i'm a newbie and i don't know where to get it. - Haley
x hey can anyone tell me where I can find cheap embroidery floss .....either at toronto downtown or online ! - Priyanka
x where in Toronto can you get Adhesive Tear-away Embroidery Stabilizer? I want to embroider on jersey but i'm a newbie and i don't know where to get it. - Haley
posted by toronto craft alert at 10:47 a.m.
6 Comments:
this from nathalie-roze:
Embroidery Floss/thread
This is available in various colours & shades at most Dollarama stores - often MANY skeins (?) per pack, like 10+, for a dollar. This isn't silk or super-fine quality, but definitely adequate for beginners or less delicate projects (eg. add decorative accents to denim garments, totes, etc.). The Dollarama at Yonge & Charles as well as Dufferin Mall & Shoppers World (Danforth & VP) all carry it...
i found anchor floss for 33 chents each at evil walmart. i don't know what the quality is like but they have a wide colour selection.
about the emroidery floss/thread? i went on e-bay and found a bag of thread from france. i paid $1.50 cdn for it. ebay is worth the try.
I checked ebay, their shipping charge is alot ! even if the threads are cheap the shipping makes it all expensive :S
--Priyanka
priyanka.gupta@utoronto.ca
Embroiderers unite! I've had a real hard time finding reliable, reasonably priced Canadian suppliers (not online) for this stuff. I spent a day traveling around the Tdot and this is what I've found out:
- if you want to buy local/Canadian of name-brand embroidery supplies, your best bet is hitting one of the few sewing machines supply stores in Toronto. They seems to be a catch-all of craftyness these days. I go to one at Bloor & Runnymede that has the full line of DMC. But it's not cheap.
- Floss is cheap at EvilWalmart, you can also get it on sale (or wait for the 40% coupon in their flyers) from Michael's.
- The US version of Lewiscraft apparently is Mary Maxim, which opened a store up at Yonge/Eglinton Centre this winter - their floss is DMC, 45 cents each and they carry all the different stabilizers too. The girls that work there are knowledgeable and super-nice to boot. You can also order anything they don't have in store from their catalog online.
- Fabricland does carry some floss and supplies, depending on which one you hit. I know the one at Yonge & Bloor has the stabilizers, I'm probably going there tomorrow to get some! They also often do the 10 skeins for $1 during their big clearance sales.
I rarely buy floss unless it's on sale, then I stock up. :-)
I'm not a big fan of Dollarama's floss, I find that it twists and knots up too easily. It's kinda coarse too, but if you're just practicing, it'll be fine. I've seen it at the Queen & lansdowne and the College Park Dollarama (which, btw, has the hugest and best crafty section I've ever seen in a Dollarama!)
Oh yeah - and don't bother going to The House of Embroidery and Craft up on the Danforth.... apparently all they do now is seashells...
whoa, way to lay down the low down on floss miche! thanks!
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