Is there any such thing as a new improved needle threader? I am making some of Sue's little sewing kits for friends and I wanted to find something fun and new to include in them for the needle threader? Is there anything out there that any Cutie has found?

Hi Jan, if you are after a needle threader for hand sewing needles I can highly recommend the one below (if the photo shows up). It is a tube on a stand with a finger push, you place the needle into the tube,(eye end first), lay the thread over the little bridge, then push the button down.... One needle threaded. It is BRILLIANT.
My favourite machine needle threader is the one that comes with Bernina/Juki Sergers and is similar to the bluish threader in the second photo, it is just a very fine wire, joined at one end, which is the end you push through the needle.
With this one you put your thread into it first THEN push it through the needle and pull it out all the way through the other side.
I only have one problem with this and that is that I keep losing them and they seem to be very difficult to buy here in Australia but it is by far my favourite manual needle threader for machines.

Evidently Singer might also have a similar one???
hugs n love, Meg

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by dragonflyer 05 May 2014

Nice, Meganne...I have one that looks like the red top one and it is made by Clover...I use something that looks exactly like the blue loop above, but it is actually for cleaning a dental bridge...you put dental floss through the loop just like your thread and then through your bridge...They work splendidly for threading the machines...and they are sold in packages of 20 (I think) here in the U.S. in the dental floss area in the drug stores...

I just went to ebay and I have one of the elderly threaders and I do not know how to work it. I will look for it. lol!

I've just had a look on Ebay and was amazed that there were so many different ones! I was a bit put out to read one description that said ideal for elderly people (like us?!)

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by cfidl 04 May 2014

Lol! Nothing a pair of reading glasses won't fix!

by hightechgrammy 04 May 2014

LOL! That is what I've found too! What we need for our embroidery machines is one that comes from the back and pulls it through toward the back. But that wasn't what I was looking for - LOL Clover makes a pretty one - but it's hard to use....