Wednesday, 15 July 2015

A most excellent craft tip

I have to share this, it is brilliant. Have you ever sewn with a small person and lost count how many times you have re threaded the needle for them? I saw this, I showed it to her once and she nearly knocked my mum out with shock when she remembered it two weeks later...

Take a little piece of paper no bigger than the width of your craft needle eye, fold it in half and put the wool inside. Now watch this...

Your five year old can now feed the open paper ends, held together, through the eye of the needle. AmAzInG!!! She did it over and over again and I praised her wildly. My work here is done people...
Jo xxxx
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15 comments:

  1. Helen 15 July 2015 at 09:11

    Ooh excellent tip! Thanks for sharing :)

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  2. Christina15 July 2015 at 09:23

    Yay, this will be good for me, I am half blind when it comes to needle threading. Thank you. x

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  3. Jo@awholeplotoflove15 July 2015 at 09:25

    Brilliant tip, I need all the help I can get! x

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  4. Pam15 July 2015 at 10:02

    Great idea and like the best so simple and obvious once you see it. I have a potential crafter in the wings so will try this out on her.

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  5. Ashley cramp15 July 2015 at 10:24

    Jo, fab idea! even though my liitle person is fast beccoming a grumpy teen and no longer is so eager to 'help' me sew!
    best d xxx

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  6. Unknown15 July 2015 at 11:45

    Genius idea! I get so fed up of rethreading my daughter's needles, definitely going to give this a try

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  7. Jill at emeraldcottage15 July 2015 at 11:52

    Such a genius but simple tip! How have we not all thought of this before ?!!! Thx for sharing :)
    Jillxo

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  8. mamasmercantile15 July 2015 at 11:56

    Such a simple thing, yet amazing great for myself as well as the children.

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  9. Una15 July 2015 at 14:31

    That is very clever. I bought some needle threaders and they fell apart after a few uses. I'll remember this tip.

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  10. Ingrid K.15 July 2015 at 16:01

    Hello Jo, what a lovely post. I have just been busy catching up on my reading, and I love all the creative things you have been doing lately, just great. I think it is brilliant that you are passing on your sewing skills to your crochet ladies!!

    Have a nice week!
    Ingrid xx
    Myfunkycrochet.blogspot.be

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  11. Angel Jem15 July 2015 at 21:08

    Brilliant tip!

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  12. jabbott15 July 2015 at 22:10

    Best sewing tip x

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  13. Gracie Saylor16 July 2015 at 07:27

    Brilliant!!! Thanks for sharing the tip, Jo :) xx

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  14. Anonymous16 July 2015 at 11:39

    I wish that worked with teensy needles. I use a really thin one with a tiny eye in preference but what with my dodgy eye sight, it does make things tricky!

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  15. Gillian Roe25 July 2015 at 21:02

    You. Are. A.Genius. I'm showing this to Bella tomorrow. She likes to do some sewing when she sees me doing some - in fact today I showed her how to make friendship bracelets and she was away with that in no time.

    Sorry, I've comment bombed you again. It was lovely to have a catch up and see what you've been up to. Hope you're having a lovely weekend. xx

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