Hi guys, I'm Cassie from Faodail Creation and in this video I'm going to teach you all about sewing needles
When you're first learning sewing, needles can be a bit of a minefield, but trust me
They are just trying to make your life easier not harder
So what come with me to my sewing room, and I will give you a few tips
The one thing I do recommend is that you use a good quality needle
I always use the Schmetz brand for my sewing machine now Schmetz is a really good company
It's German
They do some great needle guides that you can find at your sewing machine shop
So there are so many different needles out there
How do you know which needle to select for your project so just to let you know?
You should be changing your needles every eight hours, or as a rule of thumb for every project that you work on
They also have a great website. You can go on there are so many resources on selecting correct needles
Do you struggle with opening these packages?
please don't they are very easy to open just hold the packet like this and you literally just
swipe down
It's so easy
So what are these two sizes down here the 80 and the 12?
You'll notice all different sizes on all different needles like this one is 75 and 11
This is simple. This is just the sizing of the needle so
The 12 here or the bottom set of numbers down here are all the American sizes of needles
now the 80 and the 75 and the 90s all up here are all the
European sizes of the needles
As a general rule of thumb try to think of it like this so the thinner the fabric the thinner the needle
or the thicker the fabric the higher the needle you need to go
When sewing on cotton most people would generally use either Universal or a microtex needle
If using the wrong size needle you may find that your needle may break or
It can pierce if you're using too big of a needle for your project it can pierce too big of a hole in the fabric
There's a few different things that can happen so
so if sewing on a leather depending on the thickness of it you may sew on a size 80 or you may sew on a size
100 the great thing about the dedicated
Needles is that they give you a range of different
Thicknesses that you could be using so if it's thin. It's 80 and if it's thicker it's 100
I think you can get higher numbers for sewing on
Leather which can go up to 120
So they have so many different needles in order to help us not to confuse us and
They're just designed in different ways like the stretch needle
It has a specially designed eye, and it helps to prevent the skip stitches and the hem stitch needle
You use that for like heirlooms sewing and to create some decorative cut work with them
now there's a double eye needle up here and
That has two eyes in it, so you can create textured effects for embroidery and top stitching so there's loads of different
needles, and they have different eyes or
different features on the needle in order to make the task much quicker I
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