Well... I'm not confident if my English is enough to publish a tut... hmmm... let me try!

Not always we can comply the rule of needle exchange every 8 hours of use... but we can easily notice when the needle is not as sharp. I'll show you how to make your own sharpener at home.

Cut a 7"x5" rectangle in cotton fabric. Sew around the edges, leaving a small opening and forming a little bag. Place inside a piece of steel wool. Close it with little blind stitches. Ta-da! You're ready for sharpening your needles.

All you need is to sew (needle without thread) this sharpener forward and backward, just a few times!

I love this idea. Thank you so much for the pictures. IT looks like the steel wool is a very fine grade. like I use for furniture refinishing. I will make one of these and try it. Very clever!

Great tut.
thanks for sharing!

Great idea! What grade of steel wool. It comes in fine, regular and coarse.

Hmmm... Houston, we'd had a problem!

My English was the 1st point I was not sure to publish it... the material thing was the second... LOL...

I would say it should be the fine one. Here in my country we use it for shining pots... does it help?

Thank you for the great idea! And I think your English is just fine!!

This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks so much for this great idea. Your English was very understandable.

Great idea :thumbup: Thanks for the tute.

OH, NEAT. What a wonderful idea. Will have to make myself one. THANK YOU