Barb Tewksbury/Art of Kiltmaking's New Website

[vorpallemur]

OK, then perhaps also some info on sewing thread. There's an older thread on this forum where Barb reported testing the "new" Dual Duty thread and finding it acceptable, whereas the older formulation of Dual Duty was not recommended. I still find old Dual Duty in stock at discount fabric stores, have to watch what I'm getting.

Maybe just looking through the threads that Barb has started here on XMTS would suggest other info worth including?

Coats and Clark make two, different "Dual Duty" threads. There is the stuff now called "Dual Duty Plus", which used to be just plain "Dual Duty", which is a cotton-covered polyester thread. It's still in production, but the only place I've seen it lately is at Wal-mart. (Actually, one of the local fabric stores has it in black and white, no colors.) Then there is "Dual Duty XP", which is polyester-covered polyester.

I suspect it's the "Dual Duty XP" that Barb found to be acceptable. Why they couldn't come up with a new name, I don't know.

[Barb T]

I suspect it's the "Dual Duty XP" that Barb found to be acceptable.

Yup. That's the stuff.