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Help please?!

I've just started sewing club at the school where i teach and have dug out all the old threads left behind from the previos teacher. Not surprisingly I'm finding the never-ending supply of brown and grey very hard to 'sell' to 8 year olds who only want to use pink and blue - consequently I'm searching for suitable threads to buy for the club! After a lengthy trawl of the web I've succeeded in confusing myself. The girls are sewing onto 'Binca' using fair sized, oval eye needles (the holes in the Binca are probably about 2-3mm in diameter - typical primary school equipment). When I was at school I used a perle cottom thread that came on a ball and I would like to know where I can buy this and what size I need. What on earth is the difference between perle #5, #8 and #12? Is #8 the thickest cotton perle before it becomes a skein and not a ball. Balls of thread are also easier as the kids make a meal of the skeins and we end up spending more time undoing knots than sewing!! If anyone can give me any advice I would be REALLY grateful.

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curlykirsty
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Sorry, just read back my message only to find it peppered with typos!! I hope my poor sewing knowledge hasn't rubbed off onto my spelling ability!!!

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curlykirsty

There is also a #3 perle cotton. DMC #5 perle is available in balls but only the five "basic" colors come in the 49 yard balls. DMC #5 27 yard skeins are available in 292 solid and 20 variegated colors. DMC #3 16.4 yard skeins are available in the 292 solid colors. Of the four sizes, #3 is the thickest and #12 the finest. Other brands may be available but the DMC is usually the easiest to find in the US.

There are also various brands of crochet cott> I've just started sewing club at the school where i teach and have dug

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Brenda Lewis

Sounds like DMC perle cotton - you don't say where you are, but it is available at Michaels, AC Moore and such!

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

Another idea that might work is the "craft thread" that I have seen in some stores--it seems to be fairly inexpensive, and I have seen it in packs of lots of bright colours for kids making bracelets and whatever. It is not stranded, and probably about the thickness of perl cotton, although I'm no expert.. Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

Threads that are hanks you can teach the girls to roll onto a piece of folded paper , tell the girls to put it over their arms like armbands give them a piece of foldded paper and tell them to roll it over the folded paper,.,, mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

hi, i got more than 100 different colours in sewing threads & 50 colours in varigated threads in rayon,also i have cotton organdy in 44" / 60" wide, let me know, bindu

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exclusivesilks

Thank you for all your advice. I'm in the UK but I think I've found a good website that i can order from now that I know for definite about the sizes of thread. My mum and I have spent a long time winding the poor variety of thread that we have onto card to make it easier for the kids to use but if I get skeins, I'll definitely teach the kids to do it instead!! Happy sewing everyone. Kirsty

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curlykirsty

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