Needle

It also requires excellent vision. With or without glasses, it is helpful to be able to SEE the hole in the needle and the end of your thread. When I was a little girl, my mom would call to me with “bring your eyes over here” when she was attempting to thread a needle. She had fuzzy vision and mine was 20-20! I’d get that needle threaded for her in moments.

Now, even with glasses on, it isn’t quite that simple for me to do but I have a trick that helps me so much that I wanted to share it with you.

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When you are threading a needle, hold the eye of the needle over a light colored surface. If you hold it over a dark background, the hole will disappear. You may never find it. Holding it over something white or very light will make that hole so much easier to find.

1.Do you wear eye glasses for reading? Get them and put them on!

2.Cut the end of the thread with a clean cut, on a slight angle.

3.Lick your forefinger and thumb lightly to dampen them.

4.Run your fingers along the thread to bring the end to a better point.

5.Hold the needle in the middle with the eye of the needle (the hole) over a light colored background, in good light.

Tip: do not allow the end of the thread that you are guiding through the eye of the needle to be too long. If it is shorter it will go through easily. Only have a little bit showing at the end of your fingers so that you can control where it goes.

6.Aim the trimmed, dampened end of the thread at the eye and push it through.

7.Pull the thread through to the other side and pull both ends even.

8.You did it! Ready to sow.

Do you know how to tie a knot at the end? Not sure? Here is a very simple video to help you. [If you are reading this by email, click the title of the post to come to the blog. You will be able to view the video there!]