Thanks for the reply. Staying on the topic of thread (which for me is hard I must say), what are some of the thread manufacturers that I should be looking at. I bought some cheap thread off of E-bay. Coats and clark I now know, but are there others in the all/general purpose line that I should consider. I must restate that I am a complete newbie at this. The last piece of cothing that I completed was in 8th grade.(I for reasons of my own ego will not state how many decades ago that was) Thanks again for replying so quickly.