How to Choose a Needle for Hand Sewing

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Summary: To choose a needle for hand sewing, consider the type of fabric, the size of the eye and how easy it is to handle, as smaller needles are best for smaller details, but heavier fabrics require a thicker needle. Pick out the right needle for sewing by hand with a demonstration from an independent fashion designer in this free video on sewing.

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By Rebecca Farrington
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Rebecca Farrington is a fashion designer and teacher, and she has her own brand of clothing called Ferinta. She started sewing her own patterns, and later, she attended fashion design...read more

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"Hi, my name is Rebecca and I'm going to talk about how to choose a needle for hand sewing. Personally, my preference for a needle for hand sewing is something that is small but not so small that I can't handle it and I like to have the narrowest eye possible so that the needle passing through the thread and the eye doesn't get stuck. Sometimes when you're working with heavier weight fabrics, the needle that you would prefer to work with isn't the best needle for the job so you want to look through and pick out a needle that is thick enough so that you can actually push it through the fabric and check and make sure that the eye doesn't get stuck. So there isn't any specific rule as to needle size or needle weight or even the type of eye or how large the eye is when choosing a needle for hand sewing, its the needle that can do the job that is between the hands that you have and the fabric that you choose. So test it out a few times, but in general, the one with the smaller eye is going to be even though a little harder to thread, much easier to pass through the fabric repeatedly."

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