A ready-made holiday palette in a gift tin — twelve spools covering everything a Christmas embroidery project typically needs, from the poinsettia reds and kelly greens down to the metallics that do the ornament work.

It's a two-brand assortment, which is the point. Seven cones are Isacord 40wt polyester: strong, high-sheen, colorfast, and thin enough to handle dense fill stitching without building bulk. The other five are Yenmet metallics, which is where the actual shine comes from — the golds, silvers and a pearlescent white you can't get out of a standard polyester.

The 8" × 8" window tin is genuinely reusable for spool storage once you've worked through it, and it survives being wrapped, which makes this an easy gift for anyone with an embroidery machine.

What's Inside

Isacord 40wt Polyester — 1,000 m cones

• 0010 Silky White (2 of them)
• 0020 Black
• 1902 Poinsettia
• 1913 Cherry
• 5613 Light Kelly
• 5933 Grasshopper

Yenmet Metallic — 500 m spools

• S7 Metallic Pyrite (Fool's Gold)
• S12 Metallic 24 Karat Gold
• SN1 Metallic Solid Silver
• SN13 Metallic Solid Dark Green
• ANI Pearlessence White

Details

• Contents: 12 spools — 7 Isacord 40wt polyester, 5 Yenmet metallic
• Isacord: 40wt 100% polyester, 1,000 m (1,094 yd) per cone
• Yenmet: metallic, 500 m per spool
• Packaging: 8" × 8" window gift tin
• Best for: Machine embroidery, holiday appliqué, decorative stitching, free-motion quilting
• Needle: 75/11 or 80/12 embroidery for Isacord; 80/12 metallic or topstitch needle for the Yenmet