ok...I'm sold.
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Please try this and share if it works for you.
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/this-much-easier-way-of-thread.html
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Won't work with the needles I use.
ReplyDeleteLisa Chabot Have you tried it?
ReplyDeleteI just tried, it doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteOk. Got the trick. If the diameter of the eye of the needle is too small, it doesn't work. So you need a pretty big needle.
ReplyDeleteSize 15 beading needles have very small and narrow eyes; the needle shown has a square eye, typical for normal hand-sewing. The thread I use is also thicker than typical typical sewing thread, making it even more unlikely that a doubled thread would make it through, although if I could get normal sewing thread through the eye of a beading needle, I could use the loop to pull through other thicker threads...
ReplyDeleteI also can't do this with the needle and thread from the sewing kit on my desk: the needle is a fairly short between, I think, and the thread looks rather like the stuff in the video (and not the sort of stuff I'd use in a machine). But the thread is pretty old, so that may play a factor.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone figures out how to use this trick to thread a sewing machine, pls let me know...😉
ReplyDeleteMarisa Arjones, that's why I got a machine with a needle threader. :-) .
ReplyDeleteOf course, embroiderers would never use spit, which I know because as a spinner I'd developed some dribble-y habits that caused scandalized gasps at embroidery and quilting classes.
I have to go upstairs and try this with my daughter's cross stitch stuff. I'll report back.
ReplyDeleteI'll remember that next time I need to thread a needle. Extrapolating from my past history, that will be in about 50 years.
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