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The first, larger number is the metric sizing and refers to the diameter of the shaft of the needle. So a size ’80’ is 0.8mm. The second smaller number i.e. 12 is the old imperial measurement. What’s easy to remember is that the bigger the number, the bigger the needle.
WHAT DO THE NAMES MEAN?
The names refer to the fabric they are made for and the tip that needle has.
Universal-These have a slightly rounded tip and are the go-to choice for many sewing projects using woven fabric (e.g. dressmaking, soft furnishing and crafts).They come in a wide range of sizes from NM 60/8 to NM 130/21. This needle is also the standard fit in modern overlockers. Needle system: 130/705 H or sometimes HAx1
Super Universal-Super-universal needles have a particularly smooth, non-stick coating that significantly reduces adhesive build-up. It also has an enlarged eye which is the equivalent to that of a needle two sizes larger. This reduces thread abrasion so this is a good embroidery needle too. The slightly rounded point shape is suitable for most fabric types whilst the reinforced blade penetrates thick fabrics like denim easily. Needle system: 130/705 H-SU
Ballpoint/jersey- They gently push aside the fibers instead of punching their way through, which prevents holes forming in the fabric, and skipped stitches. Needle system: 130/705 H-SUK
Stretch-Stretch needles are often confused with ballpoint, but they are a different needle and perform a distinct function. Use these for sewing elastic or fabrics containing a high degree of elastic e.g. swimwear. They have a medium ballpoint tip, a shorter eye, and a flatter shank. This allows the needle to be closer to the bobbin hook, preventing skipped stitches. Needle system: 130/705 H-S
Super Stretch-These needles have been developed for easy sewing of highly-elastic fabrics. The flat shank allows the needle to be closer to the bobbin hook. There’s also a special scarf design allowing a larger thread loop, which is more likely to be picked up by the hook. A reinforced shaft reduces likelihood of breakage and allows a straight stitch whilst the chrome coating, instead of nickel is more resistant to abrasion. Needle system: HAx1 SP
Microtex-A very slim, sharp point gives good results when sewing fine or densely woven fabrics such as microfiber, silk, polyester and taffeta lining. Perfect straight stitches are achieved during topstitching. Needle system: 130/705 H-M
Quilting-These have a special taper to their slight-rounded point for easier penetration of fabric layers and eliminate skipped stitches. Needle system: 130/705 H-Q
Jeans-A medium ballpoint tip displaces the fabric for less stress during fabric penetration whilst a reinforced blades copes with heavy fabrics such as canvas, denim and twill. Needle system: 130/705 H-J
Topstitch-A long eye of 2mm allows thicker thread to pass unhindered reducing skipped stitched and thread abrasion. A slightly rounded point is suitable for most woven fabrics. Needle system: 130 N
Leather-For sewing leather, and hard faux leather/vinyl. This needle has a flat ‘chisel’-shaped tip which cuts a tiny slit instead of making a hole. This prevents the fabric tearing. These needles must not be used on woven or knit fabrics, they will cut any woven or knits.
There is a common myth that Singer brand are 1mm longer but that’s not true. The length of all sewing machine needles has been standardized.
Singer uses a non-standardized numbering system on the packaging that can make it seem like they are larger, but you can measure them to see that they are the same length. I have so many issues with singer and i never recommend their products because they slap the singer logo on super cheaply made shit constantly (like the pins that have no points on them, the thread that is dry rotted but its “new”, the sewing machines that are trash, the unrepaired returns that they resell).
How often should I change my needles?
After every sewing project (or about 6-8 hours of sewing). No matter the effort you’ve put in to choose the best needle for your project, you won’t get good results if it’s blunt. Also, if you hit a pin, then check your needle for a bent tip. If you feel any rough edges or burrs, then change it to avoid fabric damage and/or stitching problems.
truly not to sound defeatist or cynical but it really does blow my mind how little love people choose to extend to black people lmao
do you have black friends or family or partners? do you show love to the black people in your lives? how? do you listen to black music, watch black movies, go to see black plays, read black authors? do you engage with our critical interventions, support our politics? do you show up when the black people in your lives are facing antiblack racism? do you appreciate our cultures or do you appropriate them for your own benefit? do you view blackness as a multitudinous expression beyond the myth of the monolith? do you walk the walk of being a true ally/co-conspirator? do you take the time to learn our histories? how do you demonstrate tangible love and support? and most importantly, if this very simple post makes you mad or makes you feel threatened, have you questioned why?
people are once again getting on my nerves in the notes so if you’re biggest takeaway from this post is “just become friends with black people!” you are still missing the point
my last post has lost traction so I’m making a new one. but hi for those of you that don’t know I’m xandra. last august I had to go to court and I was almost given a legal eviction on my record which would have made finding housing difficult. I’ve been staying with a dear friend but we both agreed I would I would leave by April. I found an apartment that’s affordable and in a nice area but it’s hard to come up with the security deposit. I recently got my child development certificate and recieved a small raise but I do have to replace things like pots, broom, bath mat, etc. I have raised $290 in january and my goal $950 please reblog if you’d like to help. no ill will if you don’t through
Luigi Mangione is an innocent man who has not been confirmed to have been involved in any crime.
We have police documents confirming he was not DNA tested or fingerprinted, and confirmation no usable DNA or fingerprints were recovered at the crime scene due to incomplete prints and immense DNA contamination of New Yorks streets.
No evidence has linked him to the crime.
No facial recognition has even remotely come close to identifying the cctv suspects face as that of Luigi. His own family and friends do not see a resemblance. Most people agree the features in the cctv do not match the very well documented features of Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione has no history of violence nor with firearms. He is a vegan pacifist with no history of mental illness and an aversion to killing even bugs.
He is still only a SUSPECT and all involvement in any crimes are merely ALLEGED at this time. Alleged by the most corrupt police force in the entire nation; the NYPD who do more organized crime than they’ve ever stopped.
Luigi Mangione’s attorneys confirmed they have been shown absolutely nothing that even places Luigi at the scene of the crime.
People have repeatedly tried to recreate the entire timeline of events and found it is not physically possible to do what was alleged in the time frame police gave. Especially dubious for Luigi Mangione to have done given his recent, crippling back injury.
Luigi Mangione in his own words has said police planted evidence on him and are not being honest about his arrest or what he had on him at the time.
There is no body cam footage of Luigi’s arrest.
There is no autopsy report for Brian Thompson.
Luigi has so far been:
Stripped of his hat, jacket and shoes and forced to walk in the cold in December wearing wet socks.
Forced to urinate on himself where police then took and published humiliation photos of him.
He was then stripped of his shirt pants and socks and put in a blue psychiatric gown and strapped to a chair inmates called “the torture chair” and left for prolonged periods of time. To the point the entire inmate population at the prison protested in anger.
He was slammed unto a brick wall, choked, and shoved by various police officers for no reason.
Was marched through nyc at gunpoint by officers with military firearms, forced to wear chains
Was called a murderer by the mayor of NYC on national television.
Was then placed in solitary confinement for weeks. Something extremely damaging psychologically to be exposed to for even just a few days. Something usually reserved for cannibals.
He is now being forced to sleep on the floor despite again, a crippling back injury.
Again, he has not even had trial yet. He is an innocent man by the very definition of the law. He has nothing tying him to any crime. And even the crime itself was a nobody being shot in a city where nobodies are shot everyday, seven days a week. And those shooters don’t get this treatment. Cannibals don’t get this treatment. Serial killers don’t get this treatment. Why are they doing this? Because we entered an oligarchy and they want people who are rich to matter more than people who are not. The NO ONE, no name, insignificant person that Brian THOMPSON always was and WILL ALWAYS BE is more important because of his net worth, to the fascist oligarchy we’ve entered into, than the innocent man, data scientist and robotics engineer with a promising future that is Luigi Mangione.
The NYPD doesn’t want him to be innocent. They are torturing him gleefully and postponing his trial because they know he’s innocent. They just want to scare the public into understanding that the ultra rich, even those who’s names will never be remembered as anything other than markings on a never visited tombstone, are the only persons who matter now. Not yours. Never yours. You’re poor. They’ll torture you without a trial too. Your life means nothing to them. Your children dying in school shootings means nothing to them. Pinning a crime on an innocent man they can beat to scare the public out of class consciousness is the only thing that matters to them now. Depose them.
prisons separating gay couples when they learn two prisoners are dating is an incredible admission that one big reason why prisons are gender segregated is to deny prisoners the right to love
After Deborah Eakins read the recent CBC News investigation about Loblaw, Sobeys and Walmart grocery stores overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat, she weighed her ground beef.
To her surprise, the meat, bought at Sobeys-owned Pete’s Frootique in the Halifax area, appeared to have been weighed with the hard plastic packaging.
CBC News purchased three packages of ground beef from the same store and got the same results. The calculated overcharge was $1.23 — six per cent on the $21.29 bill.
Under federal regulations, posted net weights for packaged food — and prices based on that weight — can’t include the packaging.
I’m so sick of hearing about grocery stores scamming us and absolutely nothing being done about it. People are so food insecure rn and it’s because of these fucks
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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven’t seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka “raptures of the deep”
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you’re good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here’s what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they’re not dying, they’re not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he’d told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he’s at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can’t go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments.
In a letter, James, a Democrat, told health care facilities that refusing to provide the treatments would violate New York’s anti-discrimination laws.
“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” her letter reads.
Everyone say thank you to NY Attorney General Letitia James!!!
Well…this has gotten to Super jail levels of Fascism and we are speeding straight to Judge Dredd type shit.
Just to summarize this because CNN isn’t quite conveying the gravity of this request to audiences unfamiliar with El Salvador or its President: Rubio is in talks with a Fascist technocrat about sending prisoners and undocumented migrants to El Salvador prisons to be worked as slaves in a foreign country. That’s the arrangement being discussed here.
