I’M Nearly Forty

[weecalf]

I’m nearly forty and never seen this afore .I was going to sew a button on the granny’s dungarees .Well as usual searched for and finally found a needle and thread .Well as happens it was taking me ages to thread the needle .Here gimme it say granny at 96 she threads it right away . Dumb. Founded but sewed button any way .halfway through the needle came away from the thread it didn’t break but what happened was the head of the needle was just split for easy threading and will hold if not to much pressure is applied when pulling the needle through . Isn’t that fantastic eh .

[Tilly2]

Yes! It's wonderful!

[Garaman]

Doesn't sound that fantastic to me if the needle comes away halfway through sewing a button on.

[Jackdaw33]

If wearing dungarees at 96 she must be one hell of a girl. When I was a small boy my mother taught me how to thread a needle but you need very sharp near-vision eyesight so I can no longer do it. My father taught me how to wire a plug, but these skills are no longer needed.

[Jahulaye]

Are you using a sewing machine, an easy thread needle? I can’t understand the op

[Tilly2]

Here, Jahulaye.

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[pastafreak]

Sounds like it's just a needle and thread...the basics.

[Mamyalynne]

Easy thread needles have been around forever, they can be handy for light jobs.

I used to sell them in my first job.

[pastafreak]

I could do with those needles...;-)

[weecalf]

The top of the needle is open so instead of the thread being put the eye the sewer just pulls the thread through the top of the needle

[Tilly2]

Ok!

[Buenchico]

For simple sewing jobs I use this:
https://tinyurl.com/y9xhlsqz

For more complex ones I use this:
https://tinyurl.com/ybpyeoeu

;-)

[Jahulaye]

Cheers Tilly/girls, I never knew these existed!

Like these Tilly

http://www.spiraleyeneedles.com

And these



http://www.dreamproducts.com/self-threading-needles.html

What a fantastic idea, they say you can’t reinvent the wheel but whoever invented these needles deserves to have made a large sum of money as these would really help and are a massive improvement on the conventional needle design.

[Jahulaye]

Buen what’s the name of that device in the first link and how do you use it? They’re always in my sewing kits but have never used it.

[jourdain2]

I used to have really, really good close vision. Needle-threaders work a treat.

[Buenchico]

Jahulaye:
It's a needle threader.

Instead of trying to push a floppy bit of cotton through the eye of a needle, push the nice rigid bit of metal through instead. (It's easy). Then push the floppy bit of cotton through the nice big loop of metal. Pull the needle threader back out of the needle and the cotton is left in the eye of the needle. Easy peasy!

Having typed all of that out it occurred to me that there's usually a Youtube video for everything and, sure enough, . . .

[kvalidir]

I do a lot of sewing and I thread them like this, you don't need good eyesight at all ...

[Cloverjo]

I've never heard of the open-ended needle, and I'm over 40. I'm surprised there's a YouTube video on how to use a needle-threader. Seemed obvious to me when I had one in a sewing kit however many years ago.

[Jahulaye]

Thanks buenchico, so now I know :)

[Cloverjo]

I've never seen that before, kval. I'll try it next time I have to sew something. I suspect it's not as easy as it looks, though.

[Jahulaye]

Lol, just seen kvals vid, think I’ll try that tomorrow.