Aurifil Mako 50wt Cotton Thread Cone - 5009 Medium Orange

Bring a beautiful burst of warmth and cheerful colour to your quilting and sewing projects with Aurifil Mako 50wt Cotton Cone 5009 Medium Orange.

Medium Orange is a vibrant, balanced orange thread that adds warmth, energy, and personality to your stitching. With its rich, sunny character and inviting warmth, this versatile shade offers a lovely middle ground between bright citrus orange and deeper autumn tones, making it a wonderful choice for a wide variety of quilting and sewing projects.

This lively colour pairs beautifully with autumn-inspired fabrics, colourful florals, warm yellows, rusty reds, earthy browns, deep teals, crisp whites, and bold modern quilting palettes. Whether you're creating a cheerful patchwork quilt, adding definition to applique designs, or looking for a beautiful orange thread to complement your favourite fabrics, Medium Orange brings a fresh pop of colour to your projects.

As a solid-colour thread, Medium Orange provides consistent colour throughout your stitching, making it ideal for coordinating seams, decorative quilting, and designs where you want a beautiful, uniform finish.

Aurifil 50wt is a popular 2-ply cotton thread known for its strength and fine profile. It creates beautifully flat, crisp seams with less bulk, making it an excellent choice for precision piecing while still providing the durability needed for machine and longarm 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: 5009
Colour Name: Medium Orange
Colour Type: Solid
Thread Weight: 50wt
Ply: 2-ply
Fibre Content: 100% Cotton
Cone Size: 6,452 yards (5,900 metres)
SKU: MK50CO-5009

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 Medium Orange 5009 is a beautiful addition to your thread collection, offering dependable performance and vibrant, warm orange colour for all kinds of quilting and sewing projects.