Originally Posted by babydragon
Well maybe I am wrong...or just not using it right, but I just got a clover tabletop needle threader, and cant seem to get it to work ( wrong needles maybe?) anyway at $16.00 it seemed a waste.
I found that you can't use the same size needles we normally use to get that tabletop model to work. The correct needle for that seems like a baseball bat after using the smaller ones. I found that there is a slender rectangular (about the size and shape of a pack of gum) grey threader out that works great with most smaller needles, especially the gold tipped ones. I can't remember who put it out but it's difficult to find. It is a storage, threader. You load up about 20 needles at once, put the lid on it, then as you need a threaded needle, you just slip the end of the thread into the case, pull and pull out a threaded needle. As you thread the needle into the case, you will be putting a wire similar to those little threaders they use to give away for free when you bought a pack of needles, the one with the bent wire to put through the eye of the needle. So if you can get one of those through the eye, it's a snap. I used to have a couple of them. They're great for sew groups and classes.