Originally Posted by
jeanharville
Last week I bought a green Dritz needle threader where you drop the needle in the hole, push a button and the needle comes out threaded but mine will not thread a needle.
If your threader is anything like the one I have here (it was my grandma's, and she bought it when I was a pre-teen), sometimes the needle doesn't "fall" in the right direction, so you're trying to thread it through the side, rather than the eye. It might be worth just turning the needle a little by hand and trying again. You may have to repeat that a couple of times. There's probably a limitation on the size of the eye it can thread through too. I don't have the instructions anymore, but I remember threading a lot of needles for grandma, with and without the "gizmo".
If it's the one I think it is, you drop the needle in, eye downward, lay the thread in place, and there's a little flat "blade" that pushes the thread through the eye of a hand needle, correct?