How To Thread A Needle

Seamstress Helen Richards demonstrates how to choose a needle for any sewing task, thread the needle, and tie a finishing knot, for a tight finish. Enlarge

How To Thread A Needle

Seamstress Helen Richards demonstrates how to choose a needle for any sewing task, thread the needle, and tie a finishing knot, for a tight finish.

I'm going to show you how to thread the needle. It should lay normally in your hand, not too small and also not too big. If the needle is too thin and whatever you're sewing is too thick, then the needle will bend, and that is not the correct one.

So if you have even a very thin material and you're choosing a too thick needle, then you will make holes there unnecessarily. So, I have chosen here some middle-sized needle. So, the thread in is your right hand, the needle in your left, and you're not moving the needle; you're moving the thread into the hole.

Look, it's already through. I'm going to take my finger and pull it through. Now, how to thread a needle is also depending on what you're doing.

If you sew a button, then you thread it double. If you would need to make a hand-sewn seam, then you would leave it single-wise like that. And the last thing you need to do is to leave a knot on the end.

So, how do we do that? You take the end between index finger and thumb. Then you wrap it around your index finger until you touch them both in the same spot where you came out. Now, I'm removing this index finger to the back, and look what happened.

The thread starts to wind up. Can you see it? And then I take my middle finger, hold it and pull with my left hand, and you have a knot. And that's how you thread a needle. .