Aurifil Mako 50wt Cotton Thread Cone - 3817 Marrakesh

Add a beautiful touch of colour and personality to your quilting and sewing projects with Aurifil Mako 50wt Cotton Cone 3817 Marrakesh.

Marrakesh is a vibrant variegated thread featuring a lively blend of colours that brings movement, depth, and visual interest to your stitching. Its changing colours create a beautiful effect as you sew, making it a wonderful choice for decorative quilting, colourful patchwork, and projects where you want the thread itself to become part of the design.

Aurifil Mako 50wt Cotton Thread is a favourite among quilters and sewists for its versatility, strength, and beautifully fine finish. Made from premium 100% cotton, this 2-ply thread creates remarkably flat, crisp seams with less bulk, making it ideal for precision piecing and detailed quilting.

With an impressive 6,452 yards (5,900 metres) per cone, it's an economical and convenient choice for frequent sewists, larger quilting projects, and longarm quilting.

Recommended Uses

• Machine piecing and precision patchwork
• Machine quilting and longarm quilting
• Decorative quilting and topstitching
• English Paper Piecing (EPP)
• Needle-turn applique
• Machine applique
• Machine embroidery
• Basting
• Whole cloth quilting
• Micro quilting and dense background designs
• Bobbin thread

Product Details

Brand: Aurifil
Thread Collection: Mako Cotton
Colour Number: 3817
Colour Name: Marrakesh
Colour Type: Variegated
Thread Weight: 50wt
Ply: 2-ply
Fibre Content: 100% Cotton
Cone Size: 6,452 yards (5,900 metres)
SKU: MK50CO-3817

Recommended Needles

• 80/12 Microtex/Sharp, Universal, Quilting, or Denim needle

• 4.0 Longarm needle

• Aurifil 50wt may also be used in the bobbin

Why Choose an Aurifil 50wt Cone?

If you love Aurifil 50wt and go through thread faster than you go through fabric, the cone is a wonderful option!

With significantly more thread than a standard spool, it's ideal for quilters who sew frequently, enjoy larger projects, or want to keep a favourite colour ready for their next creative adventure.

Special Order Information

Special Order Item: Please allow approximately 2-3 weeks for your thread to arrive, based on distributor availability.

Aurifil Mako 50wt Marrakesh 3817 is a beautiful addition to your thread collection, offering dependable performance and lively variegated colour for all kinds of quilting and sewing projects.