Failing eyesight or just being tired can make threading a sewing needle difficult. It doesn't have to be. A needle threader solves the problem.
Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to About.com
Sewing Needle Threader
Description: A needle threader is usually a wire, bent into a diamond shape that is attached to a handle.
Use: A needle threader is used to make threading a sewing needle fast and easy. The wire easily passes through the eye of a needle, opens allowing a large opening for the thread and is then pulled back through the eye of the needle.
Care & Maintenance: Use your needle threader with a needle that has a large enough eye for the thread you are using so you are not forcing the thread and needle threader though the eye of the needle. Forcing the wire can cause it to break.
Available Options: Needle threaders are available in the simplest form as a small piece of aluminum with a wire attached, to a higher quality notion that has a cover to protect the wire and a built in magnifying glass.
Expense: Needle threaders come with some packages of hand sewing needles. You can purchase cards of needle threaders very inexpensively. You can go a step up, and purchase a needle threader that has a built in magnifying glass.
Use: A needle threader is used to make threading a sewing needle fast and easy. The wire easily passes through the eye of a needle, opens allowing a large opening for the thread and is then pulled back through the eye of the needle.
Care & Maintenance: Use your needle threader with a needle that has a large enough eye for the thread you are using so you are not forcing the thread and needle threader though the eye of the needle. Forcing the wire can cause it to break.
Available Options: Needle threaders are available in the simplest form as a small piece of aluminum with a wire attached, to a higher quality notion that has a cover to protect the wire and a built in magnifying glass.
Expense: Needle threaders come with some packages of hand sewing needles. You can purchase cards of needle threaders very inexpensively. You can go a step up, and purchase a needle threader that has a built in magnifying glass.