threading machine needle
 

I am having a hard time with my arthritis threading my machines - front to back. I've bought and used just about every threader on the market and still have trouble. Usually (especially my Necchi) there is something in the way when threading from front to back and IF I get it inserted, I can't hold onto it long enough to pull it through. Any easy suggestions for me? Thanks - I love this board!

I like to use tweezers to thread my machine. Its easier to control than with my fingers. My new BabyLock serger has a great needle threader. You slide it down the needle and a little metal piece pushes the thread through the hole. Then you just pull the thread through with the tweezers. You might could buy one at a BabyLock dealer.

You might be able to use something like this:
http://www.benfranklin.com/item.php?...FSWoPAodvUsAqA
I've seen some that are almost only wire, but I dropped that type and never found it on the floor -- LOL.

I have a self threader, but it doesn't always work and I learned that if I get the back of the needle wet, the thread will be drawn into the hole and out the back. It always works for me. Otherwise, I can't thread it myself. Hope you give it a try.

Put some white tape on the ankle in back of the needle. Helps to find the eye of the needle, and tweezers grabbing thread in the back also help. Get decent serger tweezers. They are made for threading in hard to get to places.

Definitely serger tweezers, I've been using them a lot of years.....stiff fingers are the pits!!!!!

I love having the automatic threader on my Bernina! When I'm sewing by hand, it takes me forever to get that needle threaded. Getting the thread wet, and cutting it to a sharp point seems to help.

I have a serger threader it is a thin long wire folded in half and it has a bright sticker on the other end it works great. You just put the folded end behind the eye of the needle then it goes through the eye you can put the thread through the loop that comes through the eye, its so long you can easily make the loop bigger to put thread through you pull the end back out and its threaded I hope this helps.:)

Similar to other ideas.... just hold a piece of light coloured fabric or paper behind the eye of the needle as you try to thread it, sure helps me!

I have a Janome needle threader that I love, and I now own 5. One at each machine and one extra JIC! They are also great for changing needles. I use them even when I have threaders on the machines.

Although my machine has a threader, it doesn't thread the finer needles (usually 70/10) I like to use for machine appliqué. I bought this - which actually works! http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEEDLE-THREA...item4d04559e5c
It took me a little while to figure it out (no instructions, lol), but it's worked every time. I took it to class on Saturday - the teacher had never seen one before.
You lay the thread across the gap, keeping tension, slide it down the front of your needle and a little pin pops out pushing the thread through the eye of the needle. I think it works on the same principle as the built-in ones.
I've also seen Dritz ones on eBay, but we don't really get Dritz here, so don't know if they're the same.