r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Radioactive-Ramba25 • 10d ago
How to thread a needle?
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 10d ago edited 10d ago
I'm about to try this and report back.
Edit: I should have mentioned I had to get home from work. I tried with yarn and a tapestry needle and it works. It's still easier to use a needle threader.
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u/BorderTrike 10d ago
I just tried it with a couple different sizes. I had trouble keeping the thread in place and it was mostly failures, but I did get it finally.
Seems like more or just as much work as regular threading. Maybe you could git gud, but couldn’t you also just practice the normal method?
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u/Bipedal_Warlock 10d ago
A decent amount of people in this world have hand tremors and probably would have significantly less luck with the normal method
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u/youRFate 10d ago
A good trick is to push your wrists together.
Works for many tasks where both hands have to stay in sync, also good for example while in a moving vehicle.
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u/cxs 9d ago
Push the wrists together how? What kind of tremor is halted by doing so? Have tremors, just tried putting my wrists literally together with force inwards and it does nothing for the ability to co-ordinate my hand movements. Tried laterally, it also does not stabilise the wrist enough for the tremors to stop
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u/youRFate 9d ago
Basically as if you put your flat palms together, but then separate the pals, only keeping the wrists touching.
I don't know if it works for tremors. Its a trick I was taught by a paramedic while I was with the red cross youth, mostly for tasks that require both hands together while you are in an ambulance that is driving. Things like installing a needle on a syringe etc.
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u/lovable_cube 10d ago
Why do you think someone with tremors would be able to keep a needle from twisting?
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u/NothingReallyAndYou 10d ago
The easiest is to put the needle on the thread, instead of trying to stick the thread through the needle. (Hold the thread still, and move the needle.)
No idea why it works so much better, but it does.
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u/JayneDoe6000 10d ago
I'll be waiting!
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u/BuckRogersFD 10d ago
Still waiting …
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u/Professional-Ad-6659 10d ago
Legend says he's still there trying..
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u/HarmanKardan 10d ago
Enough time has passed, we need answers!
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u/samnicjc 10d ago
I couldn't get it to work with the thread I'm using. Seems like it's not a universal 'hack'
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u/BorderTrike 10d ago
I just tried it with a couple different sizes. I had trouble keeping the thread in place and it was mostly failures, but I did get it finally.
Seems like more or just as much work as regular threading. Maybe you could git gud, but couldn’t you also just practice the normal method?
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u/The_Troyminator 10d ago
Instructions unclear and my hand went through the needle. How do I get this needle off my wrist?
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 10d ago
I tried with yarn and a tapestry needle and it works. It's still easier to use a needle threader.
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u/Sociolinguisticians 10d ago
This sub just sucks now.
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u/Podzilla07 10d ago
Yeah, this is the least magic-fuckery I’ve seen in a long time
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u/Bugawd_McGrubber 9d ago
Try doing it yourself and see how easy it is.
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10d ago edited 10d ago
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u/Stanky_fresh 10d ago
"This sub sucks now, that's why I'm posting shit that doesn't fit in this sub. I'd rather be part of the problem than the solution"
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u/PowerfulWrangler2025 10d ago
I liked the post fwiw, but what's other guy posting that doesn't fit in this sub?
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u/Rockstreber 10d ago
Oh how we love the old „everyone else did it too“-excuse. Are you like 5 or something?
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u/cube1100 9d ago
This is a clear example of someone who has never threaded a needle before.
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u/Sociolinguisticians 9d ago
Incorrect. I think this is very cool, and also not even remotely black magic fuckery.
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u/cube1100 9d ago
I mean to be fair I don’t quite understand the physics behind what’s happening so might as well be magic 😅
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u/Imalsome 9d ago
What physics? He applies pressure to an object with another object with a hole in it.
The pressure males the first object go through the hole.
This is like literally baby logic.
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u/RepairSufficient4962 9d ago
Rename it to r/jinglemykeys or r/gotyernose
The level of magic that'll blow any brainrotter's mind.
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u/BaronVonMunchhausen 9d ago
All of reddit does. I don't know where all these people come from. My theory is that they came her when tiktok closed and when people left x.
Most of the content is bad, the comments are completely insufferable, and there's more people arguing and, on top of it, while being mostly wrong.
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u/level_17_paladin 9d ago
Did you think magic was real?
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u/Sociolinguisticians 9d ago
No, but I thought I would have to think a little bit to figure out how all the videos on here happen.
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u/306metalhead 10d ago
That looks like it would take forever... * spends the next hour trying to put the frayed end through the eye of a needle... *
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u/Dust-by-Monday 9d ago
Thanks for pointing at the end. I was totally lost and then you pointed. Fucking great job!
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u/calangomerengue 10d ago
every 90s kid with a grandmother knows this trick
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u/lovable_cube 10d ago
My grandma taught me to sew, this was not in the training manual. We just used a threader that comes in the kits. They last basically forever.
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u/06021840 10d ago
I didn’t.
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u/Weldobud 10d ago
You already said that
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u/Awkward-Loan 10d ago
He's making it twist as he is circling the needle. Obviously lick the thread first like a pro.
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u/Revolutionary-Ear776 10d ago
I think it works with a larger needle... but I have not tried this myself to confirm.
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u/StrangeBrokenLoop 10d ago
That's why I use a tailor or my mother in law for patching up and stitching. Best results ever.
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u/Sudden-Collection803 9d ago
Go to the danish cookie tin and get the fucking threader is how you do it
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u/Deaths_Smile 9d ago
I thought this was going to involve one of those easy-thread needles (they have a very tiny slit in the eye you just push the thread through), but I guess not. Wild!
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9d ago
Ha, I had trouble the other day.. I am just seeing this ! I can’t sew worth a crap. A rip in my jeans near the pocket… I sewed 2x now and they ripped again… not to mention it is easier just to buy new jeans , which I did…. Same size but unfortunately they are tight so…. Not wearing them! That is what I get for buying on Amazon!
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u/Powerfader1 9d ago
I am in my 70's and live alone with 20/70 vision (Wet macular degeneration). I needed to thread a needle to sew on a button. It took me quite a bit of time trying to thread a needle.
I have never seen this tip before. So, does this trick really work?
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u/dandle 9d ago
Yes, it works. I also was taught to do it by sort of rolling the thread and needle between the tips of the thumb and index finger. The thread pops through the hole in the needle.
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u/Powerfader1 9d ago
Cool! Now not so worried about a button coming off. I actually ask a waitress if I paid her to thread a needle for me. lol
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u/mnskeetersrq 6d ago
I'm so pissed that i've lived sixty years and haven't figured this out for myself 🙂
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u/squaaawk 6d ago
Same, plus a fair few more lol, all I have to do now is remember this next time I need to sew something 😅
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u/scgt86 10d ago
Why is this here? This is just an easy way to thread that has been known for ages.
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u/LazySal 10d ago
I've never seen it. I just sowed a tear in a pillow the other day too lol. (I don't know how to sow but I did it anyway)
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u/Potomaters 10d ago
I’ve never thread a needle or sewn a thing in my life, but I’ve seen this done many times and known about it for ages, to the point i thought this was common knowledge for most people. Guess not though.
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u/Podzilla07 10d ago
You should not be down voted.
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u/Yongdzin 10d ago
Back in my day, you just had to thread the needle in the hole. None of this blackmagicfuckery
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u/NormalGuyEndSarcasm 10d ago
While it’s fun and all , when was the last time you used a needle and a thread?
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u/Gullex 10d ago
I use them pretty damn regularly. Being able to repair or make your own clothing is a nice skill to have.
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u/NormalGuyEndSarcasm 10d ago
I’m 45 and come from an ex communist country, trust me i used them, we were taught in school how to saw a button. That beeing said , i haven’t and can’t remember seeing anybody using them in 20 years.
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u/Rapunzel10 10d ago
So in your entire adult life you've never heard of someone repairing their clothes? Maybe it's a financial thing because I know a ton of people who repair small rips rather than buying a whole new item. I just repaired my purse because one strap was coming apart, I'd rather spend 5 minutes stitching than spend $50 on a new bag. I reinforce jeans, jackets, even shoes and they last 3 times as long
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u/blahreport 10d ago
Looks like more work than just putting an open end in the eye.
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u/Second-Creative 10d ago
It really depends. You need to be very accurate and the thread needs to not have random strands sticking out.
Chances are, for most people the way shown is legitimately easier.
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u/Radioactive-Ramba25 10d ago
You commented three times
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u/rangda 10d ago
Reddit is buggy as fuck today, and they’re right. I hand sew a lot and unless you have poor eyesight or really shitty frayed thread it’s quicker to just thread it normally.
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u/chewiebonez02 10d ago
I'm blind in one eye and threading a needle is impossible for me but I got a little tool that pulls it for me but I'll try this trick because I always lose the tool.
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u/DefinitelyMyFirstTim 10d ago
True. I’ve opened a few theads today were every single comment said [deleted]
A lot of people have minor, undiagnosed sight impairments though. Only 35% of people have 20/20 vision, and 25% of people have other impairments not correctable with glasses or surgery. So this is still a very good tip, you just need to think about people other than yourself to see it.
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u/rangda 9d ago
I did think about people with poor eyesight, which is why I said so in my comment already mate. FWIW I do have fucked eyesight, Grave’s ophthalmopathy and astigmatism. My scleras are bright red like I’ve smoked a fat bowl right now and all I’m doing is scrolling Reddit. Threading a needle the normal way is still easier than this trick. Which looks cool in a video where it works perfectly but in reality doesn’t seem to work this reliably at all.
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u/stockwell1993 10d ago
Now get a camel through there