The Beadsmith Big Eye Needles Beading Set - Easiest Needles to Thread (Set of 4)

Kaitlynd Ackerman: It is a needle

United States on Jul 19, 2023

Louise: ok

United States on Jul 16, 2023

Loren Hamilton: As expected

United States on Apr 17, 2023

Birgit: Produkt kam in der vorausgesagten Zeit und ist wie angegeben

Germany on Feb 18, 2022

Kindle Customer: I hadn't realised how thin the needles would be; they can be quite difficult to get through fabrics even if you can work out which is the sharpest end (it's not immediately obvious - unless there isn't supposed to be a sharp end and my packed are half blunt!)

It does take some perseverance to open the "eye" of the needle using your finger nails, but it does making threading a lot easier. They are useful as they can pass through very small seed beads.

Just a shame they bend so easily as I would have liked to have used them on slightly thicker than basic poly-cotton fabrics (e.g. ruched fabric tape or heavy interfacing) without fear of breaking them.

United Kingdom on Nov 02, 2021

nini92: Grosse déception connaissant la marque... Quatre aiguilles : une des aiguilles était cassée, une autre avait une partie noire comme brûlée. Les aiguilles ne sont du tout rigides et se tordent très facilement, ce qui peut être utile pour certains tissages mais une galère pour d'autres.
Bref je ne rachèterai pas. Rien ne vaut la marque Tulip ou john james

France on Apr 20, 2021

T: Okay don't laugh but it took me several tries and some frustration moments when I first bought these two or three years ago for beading. I could not for the life of me figure out where the "big eye" was on this needle. Then after fiddling with it for a few minutes, I realized the entire needle is the "big eye". What a joy threading beading string through these needles. For those of you who are having trouble, just use your fingernail and lightly run it the length of the needle. It will separate lengthwise and from there just manipulate your beading string through it as you would thread a regular needle. I will never go back to using any other needle for my beading projects. A few of these big eyed needles that I had purchased from Hobby Lobby last year (a completely different brand btw) have bent from me storing them carelessly and also that these are much sturdier than that other brand. I now use one of those a needle tubes from the sewing department at Hobby Lobby for my beading needles. They fit perfectly in those tubes. I use my beading needles a lot since I do so many projects with seed beads. These tend to keep their shape much better and as long as you store them correctly...

United States on Mar 07, 2021

Ayla: I am very new to beading and the first time I tried it, I really struggled with a standard beading needle. It bent if I so much as looked at it, and threading it was next to impossible.
Then I found these little beauties! They don't bend (well, I guess they will if you put undue pressure on them) and they are so easy to thread. I cannot understand the reviewers who say they can't even see the eye. All you need to do is bend the needle slightly, and you will see that almost the entire length of the needle opens up. You can open it wider with your finger nail, and literally drop the thread into the opening!
You can use either end of the needle, and I have learned by trial and error to just leave a very tiny bit of a tail, as the needle does tend to shred the thread after a while, at the "eye". So you just open the needle up, slip the thread out, snip off the shredded bit, rethread, and you are away again.
I have given one of the needles to a friend, and she is also thrilled.

United Kingdom on Dec 05, 2016

Elysian42: I received these needles yesterday - extremely fast shipping! However, within 15 minutes I'd already broken the first needle I used. The way they are constructed is quite clever with the eye running the length of the needle... just don't tug on the string if the needle gets caught! It will break the needle at the tip.

United Kingdom on Feb 17, 2016

Noel Davis: I don't have a problem getting a needle threader and thread through a beading needle. My problem is I always break the needle threader when pulling the thread through the eye of the needle. This ends up being a big waste of money continually buying needle threaders.

So I decided to try some different types of needles that were easier to thread. I tried the collapsible large eye needles first that have a large eye at just the top of the needle. The needles ended up being like the wire needles that come with silk thread- not my favorite and a little more flexible than I like.

These big eye needles are obviously very easy to thread as they completely open in the middle of the needle. They stay firmer than the other collapsible large eye needles I tried. They bend slightly, but are sturdy enough to run thought a large strand of beads on a loom. I use them with size 10/0 and size 15/0 seed beads with no problem. So far I've only broken one needle and this was after many, many uses. As other reviews have commented it will leave a kink in the thread where it rests in the eye of the needle but that isn't really any issue for me.

I have also used these needles with...

United States on Oct 09, 2015