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Hi, I'm Vickie Pavone on behalf of Expert Village. In this series we'll be talking about
the basics of cross stitching. In this clip I'm going to demonstrate how to thread the
cross stitch needle. There are two types. The blunt, with the larger eye and then there
is also a smaller needle for your linens, which has a sharp point and a much smaller
eye. We're going to use the big one for this demonstration. First thing you do after you've
chosen a color is you cut a piece about eighteen inches long. Easy to measure, by just from
your fingers to the inside of your elbow. Once you've cut a piece there's six pieces
of thread and you have to separate it in to two pieces of thread. Pull it apart, put the
one you don't want aside and this is the one you're going to thread. There are two basic
methods to threading the needle. You take the eye, lay it sideways, put the thread over
the needle and then squeeze through and that's threaded. With the smaller needle, the other
way to do it is you're going to have to dampen the edge to keep it nice and flat and just
stick it through. And there your needle is threaded.