NEVER IN MY 64 YEARS..................
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I have done that. I grip the needle too tight. I have also bent them. I took a smocking class and was told I should relax my hands. I guess this is why I have trouble knitting. It just get tighter and tighter on every row until it is too tight to knit.
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you could always take a magnet if you feel you didn't get the end and wave it back and forth to see if you find it that way . Just be careful not to go there barefoot or if you are like me you will find it the hard way
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The needles that break for me seem to be the newer needles. I am using many needles from 50 or 60 years ago and those do not break. I use, as some have suggested, a car parts magnetic dish for my pins and use the base to find any such broken pieces or dropped pins and needles. I don't stop looking until I get the item and that is frustrating but oh so satisfying when I find it! Sorry this happened to you!
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
Never in my 64 years-----------probably 58 spent sewing ----have I had a hand sewing needle snap on me. Just like snapping a match stick. I had the eye end of course. I've not found the point end. I did sweep the floor carefully---dog hair and all--and didn't SEE it. Hopefully it's been swept up.
I was hand sewing the binding on a quilt. Not difficult to pull the thread thru. The needle just SNAPPED in two in my fingers.
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Oh, well. Learn something new ------------or do something new-----------every day!
I was hand sewing the binding on a quilt. Not difficult to pull the thread thru. The needle just SNAPPED in two in my fingers.
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Oh, well. Learn something new ------------or do something new-----------every day!
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