ask crafty: cheap floss & adhesive tear-away embroidery stabilizer
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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
Tags: Embroidery · Supplies
Filed under: Ask Crafty
1 toronto craft alert // Jul 6, 2007 at 9:39 am
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…
2 H-Star // Jul 6, 2007 at 10:28 am
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.
3 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
4 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
5 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
6 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
7 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
8 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
9 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
10 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
11 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
12 l'ammie // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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.
13 Anonymous // Jul 17, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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
14 Miche // Aug 2, 2007 at 3:46 pm
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…
15 toronto craft alert // Aug 2, 2007 at 7:09 pm
whoa, way to lay down the low down on floss miche! thanks!
16 Maria // Jan 7, 2012 at 10:19 am
My absolute favorite floss to work with is COSMO and it can be found at The Workroom (Queen St) for $1 each skein, it’s not SUPER cheap, but it’s absolutely worth it.