Self-Threading Needles - 12 Slit-Eye Hand Sewing Needles, Gold-Eye or Silver, Optional Wooden Case
Self-Threading Needles - 12 Slit-Eye Hand Sewing Needles, Gold-Eye or Silver, Optional Wooden Case
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Self-threading hand sewing needles
The eye has a slit in its side, so the thread goes in sideways
An ordinary needle asks you to aim a soft thread end at a hole you can barely see. These do not. Each eye has a fine slit along one side: hold the thread taut, press it against the slit, and it drops into the eye. If your eyes or your hands have turned threading into the slowest part of a repair, this is the whole point of the product.
A set is twelve steel needles in three lengths, four of each, on a black felt card. Choose gold-eye or plain silver, and add the small wooden case if you want somewhere to keep them.
How it threads
Three moves, no aiming
Hold the thread taut
A short length between finger and thumb. It needs to be straight, not a limp end.
Press it against the slit
Lay the thread across the side of the eye where the slit is and push. It parts the slit and drops into the eye.
Tug to seat it
One firm pull downward and the thread sits in the eye like any other needle. The slit that let it in is narrow, so ordinary sewing thread generally stays put in use.
The slit is the trade-off. It is what makes threading easy, and it is also a gap in the eye: a very fine or very slippery thread can work back out under a hard sideways pull, and a thick cord may not fit through it. For everyday mending with sewing-weight thread, that is rarely a problem.
What it is, plainly
The needle lengths are the supplier's figures and we have not measured them ourselves. The case dimensions are not documented; in the supplier's photographs it stands a little taller than the longest needle.
Choosing at the buy box
Needles, a case, or both
Twelve needles
Gold-eye or silver. The felt card they arrive on is the storage, so this is the simplest option.
Wooden case only
Light or dark wood. Pictured on its own, and that is how it is sold: pick this if you already have needles to keep in it.
Needles and case
A set of twelve plus the case, in either finish. The needles ride on their card; the case is for the ones you have taken off it.
Material
Steel needles, and nothing more specific than that
The supplier describes the needles as steel and gives two different accounts of the finish, so this page says steel and leaves it there. We are not calling them stainless, plated or hardened, because we cannot show you a document that says so. The gold-eye version has a gold-toned finish on the eye end; the silver version is bright polished steel throughout.
Straight answers
What this page will not tell you
- No threader, thimble or thread. A set is the needles on their card. The case options add the wooden tube and nothing else.
- No measured lengths. The three lengths are real and visible in the photographs; the millimetre figures are the supplier's, quoted as such.
- No material grade. Steel is as far as the documentation goes.
- No medical claim. Slit-eye needles are easier to thread. That is a design fact, not a treatment for anything.
Press, tug, sew
Twelve needles that take the thread from the side. Pick the finish, decide whether you want the case, and the threading part of mending stops being the hard part.
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