Originally Posted by
Quilter 65
I have trouble seeing the eye sometime, and this tip was a real life changer. I even dampen the tip of my finger and run it over the sewing machine needle (I have an older machine) and it works for that as well. Great tip!
You know, it's weird, but I have always done this automatically, without being really aware of it. It must be something I saw my mother and/or grandmother doing as they sewed. My machine is new, but I still wet the needle with my finger, lol, and I wet a regular needle's eye to thread it. I also wet the end of the thread when threading the needles or putting it thru the little hole on the bobbin before I wind it.
It wasn't until reading this thread that I realized that I have been doing this.
