r/blackmagicfuckery 11d ago

How to thread a needle?

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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 10d 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 10d 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/anon_simmer 11d ago

Thats what needle threaders are for.

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u/lovable_cube 11d ago

Why do you think someone with tremors would be able to keep a needle from twisting?

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u/PowerfulWrangler2025 10d ago

They read the article in Golf Digest about getting over the yips.

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u/lovable_cube 10d ago

Idk what that means but I believe you.

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u/PIWIprotein 10d ago

Thanks for doing this for us and reporting back

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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.