Dritz 249 Needle Threaders (3-Count),Silver

Older eyes find these to be a great help! When making quick repairs, threading needles tries ones patience dearly. Having used this type of aid before, it was a no brainer to buy them. Simply made, but the wire used may separate or break when used, so pick up a few packs when ordering, they are cheap enough, and better to have than need.

Works well. As expected.

As I've gotten older, they've made needles much harder to thread, and this ancient technology helps immensely.

Sturdy old fashioned easy way to thread needles.

These needle threaders are difficult to find in stores. Good enough, but we've had sturdier ones.

This little gadget is a life-saver. I have a terrible time threading needles, and this makes that task a breeze. It's very simple to use. Just put the looped wire of the threader through the eye of the needle, then put your thread through the loop, and pull the loop out of the needle eye. The thread comes through the eye when the loop is pulled out, and your needle is threaded. The only con is that the wire loop is very delicate, but it has to be in order to be small enough to fit through the eye of a needle. Fortunately, this is a 3-pack, so you'll have a back up when it breaks. Notice I said "when," not if. It will break, but you should get a reasonable amount of use out of it before this happens unless you're very rough. I easily get 9-12 months out of mine, and I sew regularly. If you avoid wiggling or bending the wire loop especially at the base, this little device will serve you for quite some time.

If you do any sewing at all, these are life savers. I'd seen them before, but didn't understand how they worked. For anyone with the same difficulty, you push the flexible metal wire of these needle threaders through the eye of a needle (it's super easy). Then, drop the end of your thread through the large opening in the wire. Pull the wire back through the eye of the needle, and it will pull the thread with it. You quickly have a threaded needle, without wetting the thread end to compress it, or cutting it off to get rid of fraying, or wasting time trying to get the perfect angle to get that thread end through the eye of a needle. It turns a frustrating chore into a 5 second operation. These needle threaders are also quite small, and made in a way that you could easily repair anything that ever goes wrong with them. Or they're cheap to replace. From using them so far, I suspect they rarely wear out, and are usually replaced when they get misplaced, or a person wants one with every emergency sewing kit plus everywhere they might do any sewing repair.

Easy to thread needles.