Originally Posted by raptureready
I've heard it said that they should be changed after 8 hours of sewing. However to my budget that's pretty excessive. I change mine when it starts messing up or breaks.
Me too! There's some days that I sew 8 hrs. and then I'd be changing needles every day and can't afford it on my disability checks. I wait until I have trouble and then change. I also have more than one machine so don't sew on the same one all the time, but do use the same one for the project I'm working on.