kelkay -

Don't mean to be talking apples and oranges, but I think that embroidery floss is quite similar to, if not the same, as punch yarn ??

You can get a huge variety of colors of DMC brand embroidery floss at Joann Fabrics in 8 meter skeins for $.31 each. I've used it for bodies on soft hackle flies ( Jeff Hamm's Water Cricket pattern, for example ) and a woven body October Caddis wet fly ( that Ron Eagle Elk reportedly fished with some success at the Idaho Fish In last September ).

Like I said, maybe its apples and oranges - but either way its fruit !!

John