needle & thread recommendation for black fleece jacket zipper repair (broken threads)

You might find some advice here - but this group has been quite idle < dead > for quite some time. I'm not a sewist - sorry - but if I were seeking such advice I'd ask the nice ladies at the senior's craft centre or quilters group .. or sewing machine shop. Flirt with them and tell a dirty joke and one will offer to sew it for you .. :-) John T.

I have a spool of bonded-nylon thread, and find it too stiff and wirey to sew with. I used it, for a time, to make drawstrings for a button-making class I used to teach, but after melting the drawstring while pressing out the gathers, I switched to crochet cotton.

If I were to do the job with the threads I have on hand, I'd choose the 100% polyester upholstery thread, "strong, durable, and rotproof".

With all poly threads, I prefer filaments twisted together to fibers that have been chopped into short pieces and spun.

I'm suspicious of threads meant for overlocking, but have zero experience and would not venture to advise.

If you use a fine thread double, keep track of the ends cut off the spool so that you can keep them pointing in the same direction. (Imagine nap on the thread, slanted, and match the nap.)

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I'd use the thinnest needle that punched a hole that was big enough. The thread should slide through the hole easily, but a thicker needle is harder to push.

Thanks, polyester it is.

For another fleece jacket with broken zipper, where to buy quality heavy-duty "2-way open" jacket zippers (not metal)?

When you find out, let me know.

I'm happy with the jacket zipper I bought at Lowery's quilter's shop, but it's not heavy duty -- I used it on a wool-jacketing cycling jersey.

I haven't looked at the zippers lately -- it will be a year at least before I buy another, and that will be a neck jersey.

I vaguely recall seeing brass zippers there.

Umm . . . a neck *zipper*.

I wonder whether anyone makes side-seam zippers nowadays? They are all neck zippers, and if you put one in a side seam . . . haven't seen