Thank you, Sarah and Jonathan, for all of your contributions to the stitching community! I know that you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I do - and I am happy to show my gratitude for both of you at this holiday time! ❤🦃
OMG: I was a professional seamstress (retired now at 75 yrs old) & I NEVER knew you could get to the thread on one of those spools by taking the end OFF & making a keeper for your needles. YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG A NEW TRICK>==== thank you Sarah, very much. Jeanette Sizzle
Hand tips for sure, for threading needles I have found that it works every time when put through the hole that was stamped when being made. If your not sure have a look through a magnify-glass and you notice that one side is con-cave and the other side is con-vex always use the con-cave side and it will thread every time. I learned this trick after watching a documentary on how sewing needles were made and noticed the shape after they were stamped, this lead me to opening my packet of needles and checked them after a while I automatically noticed which side was which. This works really well on the smaller needle eyes as it acts as a guide because of the con-cave shape of the needle eye.
I expect you know but just in case, when making a needle they stamp the eye from one side ,if you find threading one side is difficult,turn the needle round to the stamped side, (much easier.)
I feel like I always learn something new whenever I watch one of your videos. The only tip I can think of right now is that I glued a magnet to my frame holder so that I can drop my needle on it if I have to walk away suddenly.
Great video Sarah!! I’m so glad you have made these beginner helpful videos! I’m learning tons, yay! I also now realize why you are so good at smiling at the camera…because your hubby is smiling back at you…double yay and sweet too! Donna
The shower cap was a new tip to me. Many thanks 😊. I really enjoy the voice pacing of your videos, Sarah !!! Your camera work is awesome! Thanks Jonathan!
Yesterday I started my very own small business shop on Etsy selling my embroidery! 😭 you have helped me tremendously for a while with all of your embroidery videos. I cannot thank you enough 💝
The shower cap to protect your work is a great idea but I don't have any. What I do have is a bowl cover that fit my hoop perfectly. I made a lot of them, have them in many sizes and they are a great option for me. The fun part was embroidering my initial to personalize it. Thank you for sharing all the great ideas.
These tips are BRILLIANT! I've been embroidering for decades and most of this was unknown to me. Can't wait to put all this good info to use. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I have just started a week ago and I find it so encouraging that people like you are so warm and happy to share the craft with us who don’t have a convenient grandma or other relative to do so. ❤
Before I begin braiding any looped thread, when I cut the loop in half I put the label on one end, take it to the middle than braid. You won't loose the label.
I was wondering what had become of Thing from the Addams Family tv show. Good to know of Thing's new position as thread holder. Again: Wonderful and helpful tips. Thank you and best regards.
I do use most of the tips and tricks, and mostly learned from my mother. But the shower cap idea is superb to protect our art work. Never thought of it. Thanks so much 🙏
I need you to know, I didn't expect to learn anything- I have been embroidering for a while and feel like I'm pretty decent. The bit about how to get the one strand out of 6 is going to change my life!
It was nice to meet your camera technician :). Hello Jonathan! Thanks Sarah for the tips, very helpful. No one's ever explained that you need to take the needle to the thread and not the thread to the needle before. I'll try that.
I’ve been embroidering for more than 50 years and I’ve learnt things watching this video that I never knew! Thanks so much for the hints and tips, they are so helpful and I will use them all. 🥰
So enjoy your work Sarah here on South Puget Sound in Washington State… British Captain George Vancouver along with his First Lt. Peter Puget charted and named just about all of this area geographically in 1792…. While looking for a northwest passage….I tend to lean more toward cross stitch and knitting….but so much of your content is appropriate for all fiber work…. It is very cold this morning 29 degrees….but cozy and warm with a cup of coffee…. 😂Beginning to prepare for Thanksgiving next week
I've just start embroidery cross stitch this week and I'm kicking myself, I should've seen your videos before beginning. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge ! Many tips I saw first time. I have a lot of skiens of twisted threads and now know how to pull threads out of them without messing out rest.
Hi bumped in to you earlier on the crossing in Harrogate I know that I said I watched your you tube videos but should have said that I watch them all because I find them so informative and inspirational. Thank you sarah
I’ve seen someone using masking tape (or washi-tape) to bind the hoop, and I have used them for binding my own hoops. I find that using paper tape can minimise the hoop’s tightness (compared to fabric bias tape), and if you get your hands on any pretty tapes you’d feel like dressing them up!
Sarah, I so much enjoyed this video. I have used these methods before but it was nice being reminded of them. I have been sewing, etc. for many years (78 years old). On another note, I received my order from you a few days ago and am delighted with everything I bought. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Hugs to you, Jonathan and Ginger Cat.
As an alternative to a clamp I use a 1kg Diver's weight covered with a few layers of pellon and an outer covering of thick corduroy. There's a depression in the centre of the weight which I can stick "waiting" needles into which is handy. I like using the weight as it is easily moved to the side (when the frame has to be turned over to finish off threads e.g.). I obviously don't take it when travelling (!), but it's wonderful at home🙂
I am just venturing into the world of embroidery as a complete novice and am thrilled to come across this video. Such wonderful tips to make the experience so much more manageable and enjoyable. Thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
thank you Sarah! I have been watching you now for about 2 years, i have watched all of your past videos and never miss a new one, in doing do my embroidery work has really improved, sometimes i look at a finished piece and say "WOW, i made that? " because my work looks amazing. thank you again. happy holidays
Nice compilation. Had already picked up most of them from you. I learned to thread the needle by folding the end over the needle pinching that fold between my thumb and finger and then thread like you showed. Know you show this method in the dedicated video. Have never seen it anywhere else. Learned it from my grandmother, who was a seamstress. She also taught me to make a knot by winding the thread tail around the needle and then pulling that little “coil” down along the thread to the end. 💕
Make it even easier - the eye of the needle has two sides. One where the hole is bent inward and the other where the hole is bent outward. Dont need to struggle trying to force the thread through the eye, just roll the needle around in your fingertips and find which side the thread goes in easier. (Works every time. ) i fold my thread this way too. Super easy no matter how many strands you are working with.
Thank you!! I've been sorta self-taught and I just learned so much from you. Will follow your channel now. You have a wonderful "teaching style," very precise and slow. But not too slow, which can be difficult.
Your wonderful. Very understandable and very easy to understand. I've been doing sewing since I've been 9 and I'm 71. You showed me interesting new stuff. Thank you.
Thanks Sarah, all is perfect. I've found a clean way to keep my skeens: I use empty plastic boxes of Rocher chocolates. The length is the same. I have 6-7 of them in one draw ( I have 5 draws...) with sorted colours.
When the end is longer than the strand, I have stuck the needle into the area it needs then insert a needle threader through the eye, then the thread through the eye of the needle and pull it through. Comes in handy to help hide the end or you can also weave the needle but leave the eye out then thread through the needle threader. I have had one inch of thread and used this method.
Yes my mum taught that too. When the thread that is sticking out of the work is shorter than the needle, you stick the needle through where you want to make the stitch go, and then thread it. Works for mending too.
Wonderful video! I'm a long time embroiderer but you have hit some problems right on the head. They will definitely lessen my aggravations! Now to check out your other videos!
I'm loving your channel! Enjoying getting back into embroidery and I appreciate all your tips and techniques as they do make it easier! Sending your links to a friend in Hawaii who is making the transition from crossstitch to embroidery.
Thank you, Sarah and Jonathan, for all of your contributions to the stitching community! I know that you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I do - and I am happy to show my gratitude for both of you at this holiday time! ❤🦃
Thank you so much Linda for your support! I hope you had a lovely Thanks giving x
nice comment dude!
Thanks! Can you believe that it almost Thanksgiving time again? If you celebrate, I hope it is a nice one! @@abocado121
OMG: I was a professional seamstress (retired now at 75 yrs old) & I NEVER knew you could get to the thread on one of those spools by taking the end OFF & making a keeper for your needles. YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG A NEW TRICK>==== thank you Sarah, very much. Jeanette Sizzle
Haha - this brightened my day! ❤ Have a great day! 😊
I to am a sewer, aged 77 been sewing since I was 10, and I never new this 😊
Hand tips for sure, for threading needles I have found that it works every time when put through the hole that was stamped when being made. If your not sure have a look through a magnify-glass and you notice that one side is con-cave and the other side is con-vex always use the con-cave side and it will thread every time. I learned this trick after watching a documentary on how sewing needles were made and noticed the shape after they were stamped, this lead me to opening my packet of needles and checked them after a while I automatically noticed which side was which. This works really well on the smaller needle eyes as it acts as a guide because of the con-cave shape of the needle eye.
Great video with hints and tips. I especially like the lasso for short or broken ends.
Me too. Genius! 🤓
Working on one now and cant tell you how annoying it is weaving ends that are too short. This tip was super genius!!!!
!!!! I have been sewing for 40 years... and never new the end came of the tread tubes!
I expect you know but just in case, when making a needle they stamp the eye from one side ,if you find threading one side is difficult,turn the needle round to the stamped side, (much easier.)
OMG I'm only 2 minutes in and my world is rocked. I've been sewing for 60 years and never knew what the deal was with the Gutterman spools!
The pack I have don't do that, I'm sat here with them in front of me now.
I feel like I always learn something new whenever I watch one of your videos.
The only tip I can think of right now is that I glued a magnet to my frame holder so that I can drop my needle on it if I have to walk away suddenly.
Great video Sarah!! I’m so glad you have made these beginner helpful videos! I’m learning tons, yay! I also now realize why you are so good at smiling at the camera…because your hubby is smiling back at you…double yay and sweet too! Donna
Thank you, that was some brilliant advice! The shower cap and the lasso ones are totally new to me and so inventive!!
The shower cap was a new tip to me. Many thanks 😊. I really enjoy the voice pacing of your videos, Sarah !!! Your camera work is awesome!
Thanks Jonathan!
I liked the lasso trick too!😊
Awesome tips. Ive been embroidering most of my 65 yrs and learned great tips tonight. Thank you
Sarah is my go-to for all hand stitching, I am so glad I found her channel!
Always a delight to see your smiling face Sarah
Yesterday I started my very own small business shop on Etsy selling my embroidery! 😭 you have helped me tremendously for a while with all of your embroidery videos. I cannot thank you enough 💝
What’s your Etsy shop name?
@@dancinginthedark88 Tsuki Embroidery Shop!! 💖💖
This was the must useful video I have watched for the longest time. ! Thank you , Thank you , Thank you !
The shower cap to protect your work is a great idea but I don't have any. What I do have is a bowl cover that fit my hoop perfectly. I made a lot of them, have them in many sizes and they are a great option for me. The fun part was embroidering my initial to personalize it. Thank you for sharing all the great ideas.
These tips are BRILLIANT! I've been embroidering for decades and most of this was unknown to me. Can't wait to put all this good info to use. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Me too!
Thank you Sarah! Sharing best practices from a professional is difficult to overestimate. 🇺🇦🇬🇧
Just wanted to say thank you for making this video. I have just started a week ago and I find it so encouraging that people like you are so warm and happy to share the craft with us who don’t have a convenient grandma or other relative to do so. ❤
Before I begin braiding any looped thread, when I cut the loop in half I put the label on one end, take it to the middle than braid. You won't loose the label.
Someone showed me that trick a couple of years ago, and I love it!
I was wondering what had become of Thing from the Addams Family tv show. Good to know of Thing's new position as thread holder. Again: Wonderful and helpful tips. Thank you and best regards.
I do use most of the tips and tricks, and mostly learned from my mother. But the shower cap idea is superb to protect our art work. Never thought of it. Thanks so much 🙏
I am a beginner (5 days ago ) I am really enjoying your videos, thank you, I am leaning a lot 💕 I subscribed
Welcome onboard!
I need you to know, I didn't expect to learn anything- I have been embroidering for a while and feel like I'm pretty decent. The bit about how to get the one strand out of 6 is going to change my life!
How useful! I did not know you could pull out the inside of the reel. And to be able to keeo a needle inside. Genius!!!
It was nice to meet your camera technician :). Hello Jonathan! Thanks Sarah for the tips, very helpful. No one's ever explained that you need to take the needle to the thread and not the thread to the needle before. I'll try that.
I’ve been embroidering for more than 50 years and I’ve learnt things watching this video that I never knew! Thanks so much for the hints and tips, they are so helpful and I will use them all. 🥰
I love the idea of shower caps to protect my work thanks for the tip!
So enjoy your work Sarah here on South Puget Sound in Washington State… British Captain George Vancouver along with his First Lt. Peter Puget charted and named just about all of this area geographically in 1792…. While looking for a northwest passage….I tend to lean more toward cross stitch and knitting….but so much of your content is appropriate for all fiber work…. It is very cold this morning 29 degrees….but cozy and warm with a cup of coffee…. 😂Beginning to prepare for Thanksgiving next week
I feel so famous! You said my name!! ❤❤ happy to support your work Sarah. You put so much out there for us - thank you!!!!
Your support is very much appreciated!
I've just start embroidery cross stitch this week and I'm kicking myself, I should've seen your videos before beginning. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing.
What a helpful video. Many, many thanks to you both.
Thank You for sharing your knowledge
! Many tips I saw first time. I have a lot of skiens of twisted threads and now know how to pull threads out of them without messing out rest.
Good morning Sarah 💚☘️from Canberra Australia 😊 . Hope you’re having no trouble keeping warm.❤
Hi bumped in to you earlier on the crossing in Harrogate I know that I said I watched your you tube videos but should have said that I watch them all because I find them so informative and inspirational. Thank you sarah
Thank you Diane for watching and supporting our channel; it was nice to meet you briefly in Harrogate, I hope you enjoyed the show! x
I’ve seen someone using masking tape (or washi-tape) to bind the hoop, and I have used them for binding my own hoops. I find that using paper tape can minimise the hoop’s tightness (compared to fabric bias tape), and if you get your hands on any pretty tapes you’d feel like dressing them up!
Thanks for the recommendation.
My goodness, 15 minutes and i was using tips before the video was over! Thank you Sarah for sharing!
Alecia in Texas 😊
Sarah, I so much enjoyed this video. I have used these methods before but it was nice being reminded of them. I have been sewing, etc. for many years (78 years old). On another note, I received my order from you a few days ago and am delighted with everything I bought. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Hugs to you, Jonathan and Ginger Cat.
Thank you Dana, glad your order arrived safe and sound! If you have any other tips, do let me know!
I love your shower cap idea and I am going to use it. I have been storing my projects in a gallon zip lock bag .
As an alternative to a clamp I use a 1kg Diver's weight covered with a few layers of pellon and an outer covering of thick corduroy. There's a depression in the centre of the weight which I can stick "waiting" needles into which is handy. I like using the weight as it is easily moved to the side (when the frame has to be turned over to finish off threads e.g.). I obviously don't take it when travelling (!), but it's wonderful at home🙂
I am just venturing into the world of embroidery as a complete novice and am thrilled to come across this video. Such wonderful tips to make the experience so much more manageable and enjoyable. Thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
thank you Sarah! I have been watching you now for about 2 years, i have watched all of your past videos and never miss a new one, in doing do my embroidery work has really improved, sometimes i look at a finished piece and say "WOW, i made that? " because my work looks amazing. thank you again. happy holidays
Thank you for watching Lisa and supporting our channel for so long too! x
Hi Sarah, thank you, for the very informative video, with lots of useful tips, it is a good Idea putting them all together in one video.
Nice compilation. Had already picked up most of them from you. I learned to thread the needle by folding the end over the needle pinching that fold between my thumb and finger and then thread like you showed. Know you show this method in the dedicated video. Have never seen it anywhere else. Learned it from my grandmother, who was a seamstress. She also taught me to make a knot by winding the thread tail around the needle and then pulling that little “coil” down along the thread to the end. 💕
Make it even easier - the eye of the needle has two sides. One where the hole is bent inward and the other where the hole is bent outward. Dont need to struggle trying to force the thread through the eye, just roll the needle around in your fingertips and find which side the thread goes in easier. (Works every time. ) i fold my thread this way too. Super easy no matter how many strands you are working with.
Wow, every tip is so useful to me as a new learner. Thank you thank you!
Soooo much useful information - thank you! With greetings from Cape Town!
Such great tips - especially the last two: piece of looped thread to pull through a short bit and the shower cap idea. Thank you.
Bravo...Respect from Ontario, Canada
Brilliant - thank you. Love the shower cap for keeping my cross stitching clean.
This video was so helpful. Thank you.
I feel exciting to found your tricks and tips! Thank you, Sarah and Johnathan- you have best i've heard about threads and needlesThank you!!❤❤
Thank you!! I've been sorta self-taught and I just learned so much from you. Will follow your channel now. You have a wonderful "teaching style," very precise and slow. But not too slow, which can be difficult.
What fabulous tips, they have made my embroidery time so more enjoyable thank you xxxxx
Such a talented woman. I love these tips. No knots for me Sarah.
As always, your videos are so helpful & instructive, Thank you so much my dear beautiful lady 🌷🌷🙏
Thank you so much! I am a beginner on the embroidery! Love your tutorials!
I’m always learning from you Sarah! Thank you so much❣️🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽Mia
Lots of things here that I didn't know, thank you Sarah and Jonathan.
That was a very relaxing, informative video Sarah. Thank you. Looking forward to the next one 😁
So helpful!! Thank you!
Those tips were really interesting. I learned a lot. Thank you
Wow! I love these tips. Especially the one about finishing out with a short thread.
Great hacks to know. I have just started embroidery and these will definitely make everything easier 😊
Thanks so much for your channel content! I do embroidery on paper mostly and you helped me choose number 10 crewel needles for my purpose
You could stick a command hook on your desk and use the hook as your ‘extra’ finger while you braid the thread.
Great idea❤😂
Your wonderful. Very understandable and very easy to understand. I've been doing sewing since I've been 9 and I'm 71. You showed me interesting new stuff. Thank you.
Thanks Sarah! Those were all great tips!
Thanks so much..learned a lot though been hand sewing for many decades!!wow!!
Great tips - thank you! Cheers, Christine
Shower cap to protect work on a hoop! Thanks for such an easy tip. ❤
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for the tips!
Heel erg nuttig, en toch weer wat mooie tips geleerd. Dankjewel ❤
A big Thank you both....greatly helpful hacks....❤
Thanks Sarah, all is perfect. I've found a clean way to keep my skeens: I use empty plastic boxes of Rocher chocolates. The length is the same. I have 6-7 of them in one draw ( I have 5 draws...) with sorted colours.
Thank you. I learned some very useful tricks!
thank you for these tips especially the last two, great job 👍👏
Very useful!
Thank you, thank you, so helpful!!
When the end is longer than the strand, I have stuck the needle into the area it needs then insert a needle threader through the eye, then the thread through the eye of the needle and pull it through. Comes in handy to help hide the end or you can also weave the needle but leave the eye out then thread through the needle threader. I have had one inch of thread and used this method.
Yes my mum taught that too. When the thread that is sticking out of the work is shorter than the needle, you stick the needle through where you want to make the stitch go, and then thread it. Works for mending too.
yes, that's the way I've always done it too
Brilliant tips and tricks, thank you so much. 😊
Very helpful video!
Mannnnnn the thing that takes me the longest so far is separating the threads!!!!! Can’t wait to pull it straight up 😍thank you!!
Wow! These are such helpful tips! Thank you!
Brilliant!!!! Thank you for the fabulous tips.
This is brilliant. I love the loop for saving the broken or short threads, and keeping a needle inside the cotton spool is genius!
Wonderful video! I'm a long time embroiderer but you have hit some problems right on the head. They will definitely lessen my aggravations! Now to check out your other videos!
Great tips!
Very useful tutorial!!!!
Thanks for the great tips. Xx
Great sharing ❤
Three of those tips were genius. Thank you!!!
I'm loving your channel! Enjoying getting back into embroidery and I appreciate all your tips and techniques as they do make it easier! Sending your links to a friend in Hawaii who is making the transition from crossstitch to embroidery.
Wonderful tips! Thanks so much for sharing
Thank you
Thank you so very much for sharing your great tips and ideas.
This is wonderful, Sarah! I’m just getting started and I’m confident I would struggle with the naughty knotties. Thank you!
Thank you sooo much for these gems of advice 💕
Your tips are awesome. I just become interested in embroidery and am addicted to your channel. Thank you!!!
I learned a lot from your tips. Thank you ❤
¿Muchas gracias!, geniales los trucos, y muy cálido y amigable el video, estare atenta a tus publicaciones!