Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment

• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are there different sizes or gauges of needles? Common colors, materials, etc. of threads?

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    if you’re mending you don’t need to overthink it. You really only need a thick if your you’re like trying to pierce through like layers of jeans. Yes get color thread to match whatever you’re sewing. Get grey, black, white, maybe brown and that covers most things unless you really want to make it completely invisible.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are, but if you get the little plastic thing of assorted needles you’ll be fine. Maybe $1 from Walmart.

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    I’d grab black cotton thread to start out with. For mending, it’s usually either about hiding your stitches so they aren’t seen at all, and it doesn’t matter, or picking something that matches what you’re fixing.

    The thread that comes with kits is usually crappy polyester that will break if you look at it funny - it’s only really useful for “basting” (sewing something together temporarily to hold it in place while you do the more permanent sewing.) The other things in kits (pins, seam rippers, tiny scissors) are usually okay though.

    Fixing buttons is a good project to practice on IMHO. Lots of clothes hide an extra button somewhere on a tag inside, but you can also get a nice plastic jar of mixed buttons at the dollar store usually.

    Really, don’t overthink it. Even ugly stitches will hold stuff together if you put enough of them on.

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    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I bought one of these once. Dumped them all out and wrapped in packaging tape. Its super small and a lifetime of needles. I break maybe one every other year.

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    • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey, that’s the one I bought a while back! It was actually an accidental purchase because I wanted dull needles for darning but now I end up using these needles over my old ones. They are quite nice, have good sizes, and there is at least one darning needle!

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