What hand needles are useful for a running stitch?
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What hand needles are useful for a running stitch?
It finally happened. I outgrew my tools. My cheap hand needles are too blunt at the tips and not enough thinness to pick up running stitches on woven cotton. The shape is altogether wrong. Should I look for a particular kind of needle class? I know not to buy crewel. Or will any packet of needles from the quilt shop do the job? It is funny though. I do have some vintage needles from the 1950s or so and the shape is better. I have no idea whether they were cheap door to door sales needles or specialty needles though. And they are all too large and leave too much of a hole in the fabric. I checked.
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I have these needles for my Redwork for working with perle cotton thread. They have a nice size eye for easy threading but are super sharp and thin. I use them for all my hand sewing now.[ATTACH=CONFIG]528757[/ATTACH]
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For most of my hand sewing I usually end up grabbing my betweens regardless of what hand sewing I'm doing. They are generally the handiest to me. Unless it's a really odd project. I use betweens for running stitches; quilting; stitching binding; hemming pants; you name it. I use Roxanne betweens normally either size #10 or #11. I do have some #12's but they are really, really tiny!
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I'm really happy you asked this question - I was hand sewing a binding last week and it occurred to me that there must be better needles out there than the Walmart specials that I have. Mine are getting dull, if they were ever sharp to begin with! Thanks for the info!
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