Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 03, 2019

Cut the thread at an angle, like it, squint, and thread the needle. Simple.

Time for bi-focals.

Pluggers often have problems threading a needle because they often possess big bear paw hands. :D

There is always a fun part to any job ;-)

Ican relate!!!

My wife just hands it over to me and then I struggle with it.

I remember my mum going through this. She finally handed me the needle. I said, “It would help if you were threading the end with the hole in it.” She scheduled an eye appointment the next day.

so SHE’s the one who sewed up that winter storm in Montana last week

Too true. Yes, I squint, but I get it in!

I had trouble as a teenager threading a needle. So as a Plugger. I just use a needle threader.

I hate threading the sewing machine, all of the glare off the foot’s chrome makes it hard to see the hole.

Looks like she’s never done it before. As I understand it, you hold the thread still and move the needle’s eye over it.

Only?

That’s what needle threaders are made for. Some of them don’t even require pushing the threader through the eye, just drape the thread across a notch, push a button and a tiny pusher shoves the thread through the eye of the needle.

But can her husband do it?

Only Mary Sew can get things right with ease!

No to the first, yes to the second.

Four or five times? must be a pro.

Get the thread wet after you cut it

Get the thread wet after cutting it. The tongue off to the side helps too!

only 4 or 5?….I wish

I have large needles. But I still have trouble threading the needle.