If you go back two blog entries to "New Website, New Newsletter" you will see mention of Bohin needles from France and my plea for more information about them. Ruth Schmuff has come to my rescue with news about the needles which are carried in her shop. She says,
"I generally tell my customers that I don't really care about needles. Don't have a favorite etc. etc. A needle is a needle right? I had the same ones for years. Lamora from Access Commodities told me about these needles and I tried them. OMG have I mentioned they are wonderful! I immediately threw away every needle in my possession and now only use these. As I tell people this and they try them, they do the same thing. They come back the next day and buy more. Everyone loves them. They glide through your canvas. They make stitching faster and easier.
there's my 2 cents worth :-)"
Unlike Ruth, I don't use the same needle for long as my acid hands--you should see the steering wheel in my car!--eat away the needle surface. I stick to Piecemakers needles which I find both very silky smooth to use and also which seem to resist my body chemicals well. So I asked her if she'd gotten any reports on the Bohin needles from customers with the same hands. Ruth replied that no one had mentioned this problem to her and she thought the Bohins ever smoother and silkier than the Piecemakers needles I use.
Here's Ruth's shop website where you can order the needles if you are closer to Maryland than Texas where Chaparral carries them. After all, you want to get these in the mail right away!
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/
Jane, your friendly Master Enabler
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
"I generally tell my customers that I don't really care about needles. Don't have a favorite etc. etc. A needle is a needle right? I had the same ones for years. Lamora from Access Commodities told me about these needles and I tried them. OMG have I mentioned they are wonderful! I immediately threw away every needle in my possession and now only use these. As I tell people this and they try them, they do the same thing. They come back the next day and buy more. Everyone loves them. They glide through your canvas. They make stitching faster and easier.
there's my 2 cents worth :-)"
Unlike Ruth, I don't use the same needle for long as my acid hands--you should see the steering wheel in my car!--eat away the needle surface. I stick to Piecemakers needles which I find both very silky smooth to use and also which seem to resist my body chemicals well. So I asked her if she'd gotten any reports on the Bohin needles from customers with the same hands. Ruth replied that no one had mentioned this problem to her and she thought the Bohins ever smoother and silkier than the Piecemakers needles I use.
Here's Ruth's shop website where you can order the needles if you are closer to Maryland than Texas where Chaparral carries them. After all, you want to get these in the mail right away!
http://www.bedeckedandbeadazzled.com/
Jane, your friendly Master Enabler
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
2 comments:
Hi Jane:
Linda discussed the Bohin needles in our blog at http://nystitchingsisters.blogspot.com/
Oooo! Thanks, Linda. I'll run check it out.
Jane, waving from CH
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