Dritz vs Clover Products
#15
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Location: Live Oak, Texas
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I like things from both. The only thing I have had trouble with was the needles you have and the ones I bought was from a company that I had never heard of and I have the same problem you are having with yours.
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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If you want a good, solid, easy to thread needle try the spiral eye needle. I've had a set for years now and I love them.
http://www.spiraleyeneedles.com/
http://www.spiraleyeneedles.com/
one for him and one to give to a friend.
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Southington, CT
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Crafty Pat - maybe you'll want to try what I did. Take a steel wool pad and wrap it in two layers of cotton fabric and sew the folded seams so it's covered. Use it like a pin cushion for the needles that don't work well and they get a little sharper. I picked up this tip on Nancy Zieman's site.
Maybe you have steel wool pads in the garage like I did. If I didn't, I'd use a Brillo pad.
Maybe you have steel wool pads in the garage like I did. If I didn't, I'd use a Brillo pad.
#19
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I have used two brands of easy thread needles, one brand is Fons and Porter's. I forget what the other brand is but I get them at JoAnn's. I find the needles of both brands to be thick and hard to pull through the fabric if I try to use them for hand stitching, like sewing down the binding. So I only use them for burying thread tails after machine quilting. They're great for that.
#20
Mim- I looked on the website at all their needles. The way I hand quilt (rocking motion, getting a few stitches) won't work for those needles. But if you do one stitch at a time I think they would.
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