My Go To Shops for Supplies
- Jessica Devin
- Aug 11, 2022
- 6 min read
I get asked all the time where to buy good quality supplies. I thought I’d take the time to write down my favorite websites, with a short description of each.
Go to shops:
The French Needle carries high end threads, books, equipment and fabric scoured France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the United States & other countries. The scissors are the best on the planet. Lol. The also carry Sophie Digard’s amazing bags and scarfs. They’re great for buying Au Ver a Soie threads. As well as Maito cotton thread and Cotton Garden Party thread, and Sashiko thread. Their fabric is absolutely gorgeous. They sell Azumino cotton, felt, stunning Linens that are hand dyed, silk and velvet.
DeVere Yarns carries the best filament silk ever. I love that it comes in a variety of sizes. I usually get the size 6, but I love fine detail work. If you get larger sizes, you can split the thread carefully down. They also carry as some beautiful combed cotton threads. All their threads are gorgeous. And a dream to stitch with.
Piper Silk also sells filament silks. It’s fantastic. Absolutely gorgeous colors. I have ever color DeVere’s and Piper’s make. The silk is very similar, and I’ll use both together to get the different colors required for a piece. Because both have different colors available, there’s great for mixing.
DMC sells a ton of stuff. Equipment, their stranded cotton, light effects, memory thread, Satin floss, Coloris, Floche (which is awesome), Color Variations, Perle Cotton, Metallic thread, Etoile embroidery thread, Diamant, and machine threads. They also gave free patterns available on their website, and awesome storage drawers I use to store a lot of my threads. The also sell the Stitchbows system. But the large inserts have been pulled from the market for re-branding. Not sure when they’ll be available again. But if you can find the large inserts online, the stitchbow system is one of the best ways to store thread.
123stitch sells just about everything, and usually for the cheapest I’ve seen online. It’s a fantastic place to get threads. You kind of need to know what you want going in to the site. It’s easier to search for exactly what you want then to browse what they have. But they carry just about anything you can imagine.
Margaret Lee sell stunning Chinese silk thread. As well as the most beautiful frames for mounting fabric. I highly recommend. She also sells kits I believe, but I think there for the projects in her books, if I remember correctly. So you’d need the book to get the pattern.
Sarah Homfray sells a lot of different things. But my favorites are her hoops, the kit for Prick and Pounce, kit for framing up a slate frame, and her linens! The color of her linen are absolutely gorgeous. I’ve never found anyone that carries as many different colors of linens as she does.
The Fat Quarter Shop sells mostly cotton fabric, but will have a few linens, but they aren’t my favorite linens available. The Kona Premium is pretty good if they have it. They’re geared a bit more towards quilting and cross-stitch, but under the notions category, there is an marking tool they sell one of my favorite pencils for drawing a pattern onto fabric, Bohin .9mm pencil. And they sell they different lead colors. It comes right out of the fabric with a proper laundering. And they sell one of my favorite methods for transferring a pattern, Clover’s Charcopy paper. It’s fantastic. You can find different fun tools if you look around.
NeedleartsNet. This Etsy Shop Sells 56 count Kingston Linen, Needlepoint Inc Silk, Bohin Scissors, Lowery Workstands and accessories.
Berlin Embroidery is geared for all kind of embroidery techniques. And sell beautiful kits. They also have a huge amount of supplies for all kinds of embroidery techniques, and some can be difficult to find elsewhere. Including hard to find fabric, acid free products, Prick and Pounce and other transfer tools, stretcher bars and tacks, sone great books, laying tools, goldwork supplies, magnifiers, organizers, scissors, etc. It’s a fantastic shop for supplies.
Jones and Vandermeer sell amazing scissors, yarns, ribbons and trim, and some good fabric. If you do a search for a particular fabric you want, it’s easier than scrolling through all those options.
Trish Burr sells things for her Needle Painting and Whitework with Color embroideries, like the pattern transferred onto fabric. But, she sells an absolutely stunning linen fabric. And sells thread, Cosmo that’s specifically made for her patterns (it’s the Eterna substitutes). Her kits and books are fantastic.
Snugglymonkey is an amazing shop. It sells Cosmo in bundles, Appletons, A Ver a Soie D’Alger, Aurifil, Cottage Gardens, DMC, Fujix, Hemline, It’s so Emma, Londonerry, Masion Sajou, Modern Hoopla, Noteworthy Needle, Olympus, Rainbow Gallery, Sew Fine, Snuggly Money, Sublime Stitching, Sulky, The Gypsy Quilters, and Weeks Dye Works.
They sell some great fabrics, including Kona Cotton, Linen, and Essex. They have adorable scissors, some amazing patterns, embroidery hoops and blanks, needle minders, transfer tools, pin cushions, pins and needles, and literally a ton of other supplies. It’s a fantastic shop.
Embroidery.com is a buy practically anything store. If you go to their embroidery section, and click hand embroidery, you’ll find a ton of different amazing threads. Including Classic Colorworks, DMC, Glissen Gloss, Kreinik Metallics, Rainbow Gallery, the Caron Collection, Gloriana Threads, the Gentle Art, and Valdani. All absolutely stunning threads. They also sell Frames, Hoops, Stands, Notions, and Organizing Solutions. It’s a huge awesome shop.
Jessica Long Embroidery sells a ton of adorable kits. DMC thread bundles, Queen Bee floss bundles, Cosmo metallics, Cosmo stranded cotton bundles, Cosmo Opali (which I absolutely adore), Bohin Needles, bur I prefer Tulip brand which they also sell, hoops, scissors, etc.
Love Crafts, under the cross-stitch and embroidery section, they have a ton of kits, DMC stranded cotton, Light Effects, Perle cotton numbers 8, 3 & 5, Diamant, and Tapestry wool, Anchor stranded cotton, Coton a Broder, and Tapestry wool, The Caron Collection, Valdani (which I absolutely adore), Weeks Dye Works, Paintbox stranded cotton (which is great), and a bunch of other threads, they have Monks Cloth fabric, fabric covered hoops, beautiful embroidery scissors, Embroidery needles including Sublime stitching embroidery needles (they are great), embroidery hoops, and embroidery stands. It’s a good shop!
Uncommon Thread sells YLI Silk, Sulky threads, Mettler thread. Long Arm thread and DMC, as well as a bunch of other fantastic brands. They also have empty Sulky boxes which are fantastic for storing spools of thread. I use these cases to store my Sulky, DeVere Yarns, Pipers and any other thread that is on a spool. They have books, really high quality embroidery hoops, and Sulky stabilizers.
The Stitching Shop has a ton of stuff. From beads, silk ribbon, crystals, and buttons, to embroidery frames, Brazilian embroidery supplies, a ton of awesome threads like DMC, Accentuate metallics, Colour Steams, Dinky-Dyes, Glissen Gloss, a ton of Kreinik, Painters Threads Tentakulum, PurePallet, omg, and so many other brands, I can’t list them all, lol. They have frames/hoops, needles, scissors and even Sudberry Boxes. It’s a beautiful shop. They have books, and magazines.
Hand Embroidery Supplies sells YLI Heirloom Silk embroidery thread! Beautiful books, a ton of different threads including Access Commodities, Anchor, Appletons, Au Papillon Fil d’Or De Luxe, Au Ver a Soie, Benton & Johnson, Butterfly Thread, Caron Collection, Cascade House, DMC, Edmar, Gloriana, Gutermann, Kreinik, Londonberry Linen threads, Madeira, Mettler, Rainbow Gallery, and a ton others. They have calico fabric, kits and patterns, amazing books, beautiful fabrics, Lowery Workstands, Needle cases. Stumpwork and Goldwork supplies, a ton of embroidery supplies (I can’t list it all), Hopps and Stands. Anything needed for embroidery, they probably carry it.
Kreinik’s website doesn’t actually sell any of their products. Instead, it finds a shop of lets you select a shop you’d like to order from. You can fill out your shopping list of all the threads you want on Kreinik’s website, then it transfers that to a shop of you’re choice to actually order it from. But all the Kreinik products are available to order from on their website. Including their metallic thread, Silk Bella, Silk Mori, Silk Mori Milkpaints, Silk Serica, and their color charts.
This is by no mean the only shop I go to. I’ll be adding in more over time. Hope that’s all helpful. Happy stitching.
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