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Just as important as picking the right thread in your sewing activities is the right choice of needle to use. As a sewer, it is essential that you use the right combination of needle and thread when sewing your fabric.

The size of the needle is essential for the fabric, but remember that the eye of the needle also fit for a specific kind of thread. Some threads are just too thick for needles with small eyes, while some needle eyes are just too big for the finest of threads. Picking the wrong needle eye size could lead to shredding of the thread or skipping of some stitches. For special kinds of threads, there are also specialized needles designed for them.

While most needles that come with the sewing machine are good enough for most kinds of threads and fabric, there will be really times when you have to pick the special kinds. Here are some of them:

Ball-point needles are used for those knitted fabrics. Unlike regular needles that cut through the fabric, ball-point needles instead push through the knitted fabric and avoids unnecessary damage to it. Generally you won't have to deal with knitted fabric because knitted fabric are usually knitted together to create something, but just in case, there are ball-point needles.

Extra fine-point needles, meanwhile, are used for tougher fabrics like denim. From here there are a number of sizes that you can use depending on the thickness of the fabric. For metal threads, you can use those specialized Metallica needles.

For even tougher fabrics like leather, use wedge-point needles. They are much stronger than your regular needles, so they won't easily break upon cutting through leather fabric. What's also nice about this needle is that it is not exactly creating a hole through the leather. Instead, it creates a slit (thanks to the wedge point) through the fabric. For general upholstery, this is your best option.

Whatever needle you decide to use, most people recommend to replace them once every eight hours of sewing. This is not a hardline rule that you have to follow especially for large projects, but it serves as a guideline on how much time you can generally spend on each needle before it wears out.

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