Comments on: How to Thread an Embroidery Needle

on 2/2/2007 Is there an easy was to seperate the thread and do you have to seperate all of it or just 18"??

on 8/30/2006 This may sound too unusual for you to believe, but I use my wet tongue across my fingers, or sometimes stick the eye of the needle into a bit of water. I use my own spit
on my finger to touch the sewing machine needle and the threads go right into the hole. I recently talked with a woman who runs an alteration business and told her this and she was amazed. Since she lives where I happened to be visiting 5 hours away from my home, I have never learned if she tried it.

It's worth a try. I've taught my granddaughter, age 8 who is learning sewing on a machine and beginning cross stitch this same method.

on 3/30/2006 If a purchase threader isn't handy, cut a strip of paper slightly smaller than the eye. Fold in half around yarn and insert through eye and pull through.