How to Thread Needles With Embroidery Floss
Before you begin any embroidery project, you need to thread your embroidery needle. Although this sounds like a straightforward process, pushing two or more threads of embroidery floss through a needle's tiny eye can present a challenge. If you don't want to make several frustrating attempts to thread your embroidery needle, you can use a few tricks to simplify the process.
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Instructions
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Cut the floss ends with a pair of sharp embroidery scissors. This should produce sharp ends without fuzz or fraying.
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Squeeze the thread between your thumb and forefinger, leaving only the very tip of the end sticking from between your fingers.
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Hold the embroidery needle in your other hand and align its eye directly in front of the thread end.
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Push the needle's eye onto the thread. When the thread end reaches the other side of the eye, pull the thread through the needle to make a tail.
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Tips & Warnings
If you have trouble threading your embroidery needle, try turning your needle around. Certain needles are easier to thread from one side than they are from another.
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Comments
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WHAT ABOUT NEEDL THERADERS?
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greykittie
Dec 26, 2009
The best way to thread any needle, including embroidery thread, is to use the old standard. My great grandmother would put some soft lard on her lips, my grandmother would put some vaseline on her lips and my mother used chapstick. That's what I use. You put the waxy stuff on your lips and mush it around a bit, so it's an even coating, then you put the END of the thread in between your lips, thereby making the threads stiff and waxy, but not too much. Press your lips together well, remove the thread with your lips closed, creating a rather flat, stuck together object instead of a bunch of threads going out in all directions. Now thread your needle and Thank God for Chapstick. That's why God made Chapstick, for threading needles.
