Lesson #10 Keeping Track of Your Needles - The Quilt Show
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if you don't change the needle often enough, it gets scratches and burrs and also gets dull. when that happens, it starts puncturing the fabric instead of sliding between the threads, causing tiny tears in the material. where those tears occur there are weak spots and that's where it wears out soonest. the tears are so tiny, you can't see them, so you have to just change the needle even though it seems to be fine.
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
:-( Please, please could someone just PM me with the condensed written version of keeping trach of your needles. Thanks skjquiltnut
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