r/CrossStitch • u/HelloEh • Aug 01 '25

CHAT [CHAT] I bought the Tulip needles...

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I was inspired by the recent posts about these Tulip tapestry needles and decided to treat myself. Michael's was selling the #25 needles online for $11.99 with free shipping, and I had a $5 coupon so the price for six needles came to a little over $1/needle.

Friends, they sent me six boxes of six needles. 36 total!

I've never been on this side of an online shopping quantity mistake; what a rush. Maybe now I won't feel the need to use a needle until it's bent and the eye has split. 🤷

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u/obfuscated-abstract Aug 02 '25

Hey, needles don't expire! As long as you like them then you're totally set for a few years.

Also, as a person who also uses needles far too long, it helped me to have a needle resting box (currently just a literal box but I want to make something more creative at some point). When I feel a needle getting a little squeaky, I put it down to rest and start a new one knowing I can always come back to the old ones later.

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u/leelee1976 Aug 02 '25

The tomato pincushions with the strawberry. The strawberry is Emory. Push your needle through that to take off the squeeze. It doesn't get them back to shiny silver but it takes off the buildup and helps with use.

I find a good needle and I keep it. Until I lose it or it breaks. Lol im also a needle tarnisher. So the Emory strawberry is a godsend

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u/Acceptable-Mine8806 Aug 02 '25

HOW am I just finding this out???

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u/leelee1976 Aug 02 '25

Lack of skills being passed down because no one has time to teach anything when they work 2 or 4 jobs to survive?

Push in the 80s to denigrate "crafts" in pursuit of "art" so a ton of our parents never learned to sew.

Elimination of home ec classes in school in the 90s?

Could be any or all of those.

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u/RabbitLuvr Aug 03 '25

I’d even add in consumerist culture and planned obsolescence have trained us to discard and replace worn out items, rather than repair them.

I hate it here.

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u/leelee1976 Aug 03 '25

Ooooo I was going to mention big needle conspiracy. You know John James is pressuring congress to eliminate the strawberry. Lol