Joyce DeBacco

Thanks for all the tips, ladies. I'm going to try every one of them.

whyiquilt

I use this to thread my long arm machine and I love it!

Patti Mahoney

Wow, it's amazing. Now days, they have a gadget for everything......LOL

Patti Mahoney

I'm taking notes of all of these suggestions, lol. I'm 54, have done somekind of needle work for many, many years. My eyes are getting tired, too. I use my regular glasses plus a pair of magnifiers to applique now, who knows what's going to happen in a few years. Laser surgery? I'd go that route and expense before I'd quit sewing...

QuiltnLady1

I find myself regularly using the needles with larger eyes for their size, I do cut my thread at a slant and sometimes use the white paper behind.

I have a needle threader on my machine, but I can only get it to work one time out of 4 so I do it the old fashioned way. I deliberately bend one of those little silver colored needle threaders and use them when the eye is too small.

These old eyes just don't work like they used to.