Now do it with my machine’s needle.
I use a loop threader on a stick.
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mous beat me to it, but self-threading needles have a kind of claw at the eye end, you pull the thread across it and it snaps into the eye. This is the style I’m most familiar with: https://www.mileskimball.com/buy-self-threading-needles-311501
The needle in the demonstration is an embroidery or crewel needle, meant to carry larger or multi strand thread. Most “sewing” needles sold are of this type. A true hand sewing needle has a tiny round hole and is called a “sharp”, and would never work like this, and also don’t work with the wire thing. I just use reading glasses and waxed thread.
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Get an auto-threading machine!
I know vintage is popular, and I personally own a Bernina Record and a few mechanical Pfaffs all in top condition - but my computerized Juki is a marvelous machine.
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Sailrite LZ-1 for canvas, light leather and a Europro for clothes and stuff. I’d love a long arm Juki but I’m on a tight budget. Maybe someday.
I’m now old enough that unless I have loads of light, I can’t easily focus on the eye of a needle, but I’ve found blindly jabbing the thread at the approximate location works after a just few attempts.
I tried this ‘rubbing the needle on the thread’ method but just ended up with a sore hand.
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That needle is enormous. That’s the one weird trick. I think you’d use that needle for stitching up a deerskin jerkin or tilling soil.
(It’s not a self threading, it’s just that it’s large enough to have a grooved eye, which catches the light weird.)
I have several of these and never knew what they were for - thank you
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Hazzah! Now you no longer have to struggle with threading the needle next time you need to put a button back on a shirt!
I remember seeing one of those as a kid and had no idea what it was for. I loved all of the gadgets and gizmos associated with sewing that my mother and grandmother had. I never learned to use a sewing machine though, so I hand-sewed a lot more stuff than I probably needed to.
Now my hands and eyesight are shot and I don’t sew anymore.
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