I had a little needle
With a tiny little eye.
The more I tried to thread it,
The bigger grew each sigh.
I tried and tried and never gave up
Till thread was through the eye.
And when I looked, the color was wrong!
Oh why, oh why, oh why?
This happens to me more often than I want to admit!
In honor of Thread a Needle Day today, the Fat Quarter Shop's blog, The Jolly Jabber, invited readers to write and submit poems to honor the day. The above is my little poem. I hope it brings a smile. (Edited to add: I will not win a prize with this poem. I somehow missed the requirement that the poems were to include the names of three Colorworks threads.)
--Nancy.
Poem Copyright © 2022 Nancy Messier. All Rights Reserved.
Love it! So true true true. I spend more time threading a needle than I do sewing sometimes. Even w partial eye surgery....
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking fantasy here, Lizzy, but would it be great if they came up with a needle whose eye enlarges to be threaded, then gets small to sew. Haha.
DeleteThreading a needle is the hardest thing about sewing these days, aside from having no uninterrupted time!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, Pat. And what is it that takes up our time? I can't quite figure it out in my own life. It seems like time dissolves into thin air!
DeleteI finally found a needle/thread combination that works for me. The needle has a large eye and the thread is a stiff quilting thread. It's working for sewing on a binding right now but I don't know if it will work for anything else - oh well. I don't actually like this particular thread for hand quilting because it is so stiff. Threading a needle with a small eye and pulling a knot to the inside are my two biggest frustrations.
ReplyDeleteRobin, please tell me the kind of needle and thread you've discovered! Stiff for regular sewing can be hard but I think hand quilting thread is generally stiffer than sewing thread.
DeleteYou know, I have trouble getting the knot to the inside sometimes, too. Occasionally it breaks the threads in the fabric and leaves a hole, something that's so disappointing.
Well, it is a very clever (and true) poem, prize winner or not!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robin. Just silliness. It seemed to me like a poem for Thread a Needle Dad should address threading a needle....
DeleteAs I was binding a quilt today, I had to thread a needle several times so this is very appropriate. I would have kept sewing even if the thread color didn't match!
ReplyDeleteThreading a needle can be a challenge, Shasta. If I'm doing applique and have the wrong color thread in the needle, I weight the options: will it show enough to re-thread the needle?
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