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Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com
today I'm going to show you our new selection of
Tulip Beading Needles and I'm really excited about these needles because
they're
really strong and I'm really flexible. So if you do a lot of
off look bead weaving you'll be familiar with breaking your needles
or having them kind of get bent in a S shape
and needing to replace them. So these needles are super super flexible
but really resilient. So they keep their shape really well and I'm just gonna go
through and
show you the sizes that we have. We've got
size 10 beading needles and this one comes
in a long which is kind of the standard
and a short. I'll show you the
difference. So if you prefer to
have a shorter needle when you're doing your beading
we have here the same
size, the same thickness but
they are almost about a half inch difference in length
so its gonna just be a matter of comfort. You can of course
pick up more beads at a time on the longer needle but if you like to work with
a shorter needle
you'll have a new option for that here
and then we have size 11, 12 and 13
beading needle and those are going to be just your basic standard
sizes. The 12 is of course my favorite. It's one of the more commonly used
I find it works really well for any kind of work. I can just use
the one size for almost everything
and then we also have a loom needle
and the loom needle is really little long
and what that's for if you've done any loom weaving
its to be able to fit across your work threads all the way in one pass
so if you have a jewel loom it comes with
a loom needle. This is a really good replacement. If you have another kind of
loom like the rick's beading loom this can be a really really handy
needle to use for that. I just wanted to show you
these needles are all nickel coated steel
and they do all have a slightly rounded tip. It's plenty sharp enough
to use for bead embroidery and get through your
materials but it has a slightly rounded tip which is going to help prevent
piercing and splitting your thread
it's really a nice needle to use and I just wanna show you
I've been using both of these needles and this one is still pretty straight
and I've been using it a lot. So a traditional needle would have been
bent up by now. This one has a slight curve to it
that's because when we got these needles and I tried to break this needle
in half
and can't
I can get my thumbs
touching and it still doesn't break the needle and
it just kinda gets that slight curve. That as much bent up
as it gets. So really pretty impressive
if you've worked at the other needles you can tell right away
the difference. So with regular wear it's not going to get bent
much at all and even with extreme wear it's not going to break
and its still going to retain a pretty decent shape. So if you've
done a lot of bead weaving I highly recommend these needles. I've been using
them for
a few weeks now and I'm very impressed.
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