Whether you want to mend a ripped pair of jeans, re-attach a lost button, hem too-long curtains, or try out some beginner-level embroidery projects, there’s one crucial thing you’ll need to know how ...

Threading a needle is a simple enough task, but it can be frustrating when the thread bends and frays, refusing to go through the needle's eye. Next time this happens to you, try spraying it with ...

The usual way, as had been handed down through the ages, is, of course, to squint one eye, take the fraying end of a piece of string, and, with some help from saliva and scissors, jab it through the ...

As a kid, were you ever taught how to thread a needle? I have to admit that I never quite learned to sew, and I usually give even the most minor of tears in my clothing to the dry cleaner to fix.

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It's one of life's many little irritations. You're trying to thread a needle and failing time after time. No matter how often you wet the end of the cotton and jab it at the eye of the needle, and no ...

Most of us when trying to thread a needle will get the thread wet in order to pass it more easily through. However, sewing blog BeSewStylish.com suggests that you wet the eye of the needle instead.

Replicating human movement is an engineering challenge, and robots are slowly getting better at delicate movement all the time. A research team funded by Disney has constructed a remotely operated ...

Maybe cats really do have nine lives. An adorable Ragdoll cat named Lulu from England gave her owner quite the scare when she swallowed a two-inch long needle and thread – and miraculously survived ...