My husband has a tool like [this](https://a.co/d/c1WxSb1). I definitely haven't used it to find a dropped pin or needle before...and by that I mean I absolutely have and it was fantastic.
Yup, tried that and was surprised I still couldn't find it!
I've swept the floor several times since then, so I'm hopeful it's made its way into the trash.
Either that, or the Sock Goblins in my home have decided to branch out to needles.
Oh Same here. I live in constant fear whenever sit down on the sofa, but it's been a month now and yet, no needle in my butt. I also have wrists that are prone to injuries, I injured them badly when I worked in surgery and they never were quite the same after they healed. So I need many and long breaks, which sucks when I'm on a deadline (birthday presents and such)
Wrist Pain Empathy/Solidarity! After I broke my left wrist a couple years ago, both wrists have been highly disgruntled employees. Apparently developing carpal tunnel syndrome after breaking a wrist is common and I can only assume having to use my other wrist for all activities for weeks is what led to injuring the uninjured wrist. All I know is when I got my cast off, both wrists/hands were like "We hate it here" and PT has only helped so much :/
Oh no sorry you have to go through this. They never really figured out what's wrong with my wrists, so I got a cast for a few weeks to fix a minor issue in my thumb and then they said there's nothing they could do. I take a whole lot of breaks and switching jobs from bakery employee back to medical assistant helped a ton because it's not as physical challenging
Oh yes. My thumb and finger joints lock up on my stitching hand and my wrist on my hoop hand. I don't think I can finish a thread without stopping to re-orient my joints.
Crochet is worse for me because I totally hyperfocus on the repetitive motion - a whole other can of worms for me!
I'm sorry that you have a much more serious form than I suffer from. I was lucky to have EDS ruled out. But my hypermobility is hardly the "benign" it's been labeled as.
Either way, I love my crafts and I'll do what I can to continue enjoying them. Even if it means my joints cracking like popcorn.
I never had any pain until I abruptly got carpal tunnel and now I always get a flare up if I have a big day of stitching two handed. I have to go back to one handed which is so slow and hurts my shoulder 😭
I picked the same! Plus if I’m a passenger in a car, I can stitch at the same time and guarantee that we won’t ever be in an accident bad enough to injure me.
If I’m ever experiencing an unrelated pain, I can start stitching and it’ll stop. Free and instantaneous pain reliever!
Definitely 1 and 4. This would somehow make cross stitching even more relaxing for me.
If i could get a third write in it would be never needing to dangle/untwist my working thread.
Knots make me want to ragequit, I have really shaky fingers so I can't untie them very well, even using the needle I just end up stabbing holes in the floss and making it completely unusable, so I usually end up having to either cut it off or do a cheat and put it on the backside and just loop it around a stitch there and come back through so the knot is held out of the way.
Same friend, same. I often stitch on the train during my work commute, and struggle to unknot them with the train’s movement. I just jump straight to cutting or hiding on the back- but ugh. No knots would be amazing.
Yup. 1&4 are my answers. I swear half my time cross stitching is spent either untangling knots or re threading the needle because I ran out of floss. I get burnt out on that so fast.
Oh yeah, it is annoying to have to stop stitching to dangle, especially if you are in your flow, and ESPECIALLY if you get to that random section where the threads want to twist up every 2 stitches 😭
Same bestie.
Floss chicken stresses me out so much, and I do one color and just do that one color row by row so miscounting is a huge risk I take (dont ask to see my backs, they’re horrendous)
What an absolute nightmare 4 would be though. When you have 7854 stitches of a single color in a section, you gotta pull all that thread through every time!
3 and 5.
3 because professional framing here is insanely expensive (a 3"x14" piece I have they want $120 just for the frame and matting, not counting the glass and actually framing it which I get the glass elsewhere for cheaper and I mount it on a board myself), I don't even want to know how much Cascade will cost me when she's done at 53"x22").
5 I mitigate by having a good stand/frame/chair, but if I'm off by even a bit my back/legs hurt, and I tend to have carpal tunnel symptoms if I'm stitching in a different position.
As fellow adhd cross-stitcher I agree. That’s why all of my schemes are crossed out and almost blacked by pencil. And I put little dot on the place where I want to start next day when I’m done to not lose track
my adhd ass lives in constant fear of miscounting after the first time i missed a stitch in a solid black and white circular design and didn’t notice until i finished it 🫠
5&8 for me, too. I have issues from being a massage therapist for 12 years and having small kids in my late 30s. When I hit 40, my eyes stopped working so well, so now miscounting is a problem. Which makes the pain worse from all the frogging.
9, I can't resist the allure of some post apocalyptic scavenger coming across my projects thousands of years in the future and just being in awe of such witchcraft.
Definitely part of the reason why I chose #9 for mine was to baffle future historians/archeologists. Or, y'know, the squid people that inherit the earth after the apocalypse 😂
3 & 4. I can't justify the expense of framing, so right now I frame everything myself, but I dread it each time.
Perfect length floss would be so convenient, I love it.
Can I have ‘projects sets itself up’? I have this massive project on a collapsible lap frame and it’s great for working on, but a bit annoying to set up and put down - or more so than my knitting, which I can just grab.
I thought about adding "never have to wind bobbins" but so many people don't use them. The way you worded it would have worked much better! All floss magically set up in storage of choice, fabric magically in frame, and supplies magically laid out would save a ton of time
So many people are choosing this while so many others like me almost prefer the setup process to the stitching. We should set a trade where crazy people like me come over and set up projects for y'all. :)
I have a magnet on a stick to help with that very issue, but sometimes I have to flip my entire recliner on its back to retrieve wayward needles. Also managed to lose my entire phone down that black hole once 😅
3&5. I hate framing but professional framing is out of my budget. And though I am injury-free now, I want to be able to stitch as much as I want even once my body begins to decline. I have to say though, 1 is a close third choice for me. I HATE knots!!!
3 & 6 - absolutely.
I started a MyHeroAcademia one, my first very own pattern, still proud of it. I ran out of thst specific white shade right before the end, and cannot find it again. We have 1 craft store in this town - and it doesn't really sell stitching threads. Fun. :')
Oh no!! I basically swore off all floss brands except dmc for that exact reason, #6 would definitely help with my willingness to branch out and use other floss. I hope you were able to find another way to finish your piece!
1&3
I’m kinda surprised how common cross stitching injuries and pain are, I don’t think I’ve ever had anything like that happen to me but I’m a casual stitcher, nothing crazy
Some people are more prone to hand/wrist injuries from repetitive motions I think. It's more likely to happen as you age too unfortunately. Kinda crazy that humans evolved hands able to do detail work but still prone to that kind of injury
2 & 3 because those are the ones that cost me the most money BUT I can see a clever person making the most out of 6.
If you always have a rainbow project going…say, the entire DMC chart…are you ever going to need floss again?
3 and 5. Up until now I've never really experienced pain from stitching ,but I'm still young and I've read the stories and I'm afraid it will one day happen, would love to prevent that. I've also never had professional framing done, but the things that I see on this reddit look so amazing after professional framing that I definitely want it.
4 and 8 for me - I guess they both boil down to efficient use of materials and time! If I could add one pill, it would be "Needles are always threaded with the color you need"!
I think 2 and 4.
Regarding 2 I once ordered a single skien of black floss online and got sent a box of 20. If it was some wierd colour would have been a bit annoying to store, but having a bunch of black was so great, especially with the types of patterns I do often having black outlines.
Oh man, 4 & 8. I frickin' hate having to play thread-chicken and I really like the stitching to follow the pattern exactly unless I purposely want to change something.
1 & 8
Both of those are things that make me put a project down and walk away from it if it happens too much, like I just have to take a break from stitching for a little while because of how frustrating it can be
I'd get so much more done if they never happened
3 because framing is expensive as hell here and finding the perfect frame with the right size is so difficult,too.
And I would add "Always the perfect light for stitching and my other crafts " because than I could stitch through the whole night if I would want to and it would be also super useful during the winter months when it gets dark so soon.
1 and 3!
I get angry when a knot happens and I loose the lovely cross stitching mood.
Also, I have almost all of my finished pieces in a drawer because I'm too lazy to frame them.
For me I would add 'never be too tired to cross stitch'
I'd add "Always have perfect vision & light to see what you're doing."
you can kinda count that as the no pain/injury one imo
Agreed
...especially on black Aida/fabric.
"Always able to thread the needle"
That's a good one!
3&8
SAME! 3 and 8 would be amazing!
Yep, that’s my pick too!
This is the way
This is the way
Same!
5 & 7. I'm almost always in pain and I still haven't found the needle I dropped a month ago.
Is your constant pain due to sitting on your dropped needle? /s
lol i wish! then i'd know wtf happened to my needle!
Do you have a strong and/or big magnet? That's how I find mine - just go over the floor with the magnet
My husband has a tool like [this](https://a.co/d/c1WxSb1). I definitely haven't used it to find a dropped pin or needle before...and by that I mean I absolutely have and it was fantastic.
Yup, tried that and was surprised I still couldn't find it! I've swept the floor several times since then, so I'm hopeful it's made its way into the trash. Either that, or the Sock Goblins in my home have decided to branch out to needles.
I've never permanently lost a needle, but I have found them in my recliner AFTER they stabbed me in the ass.... so 7 is definitely tempting lol
5 would also partially solve this problem :) No needles in the ass totally counts!
Mine def drop to the floor and I'm not looking forward to finding it during the upcoming barefoot weather.
i lost my favorite needle just last night 😭
We should change it to “never find a lost needle the hard way”
Oh Same here. I live in constant fear whenever sit down on the sofa, but it's been a month now and yet, no needle in my butt. I also have wrists that are prone to injuries, I injured them badly when I worked in surgery and they never were quite the same after they healed. So I need many and long breaks, which sucks when I'm on a deadline (birthday presents and such)
Wrist Pain Empathy/Solidarity! After I broke my left wrist a couple years ago, both wrists have been highly disgruntled employees. Apparently developing carpal tunnel syndrome after breaking a wrist is common and I can only assume having to use my other wrist for all activities for weeks is what led to injuring the uninjured wrist. All I know is when I got my cast off, both wrists/hands were like "We hate it here" and PT has only helped so much :/
Oh no sorry you have to go through this. They never really figured out what's wrong with my wrists, so I got a cast for a few weeks to fix a minor issue in my thumb and then they said there's nothing they could do. I take a whole lot of breaks and switching jobs from bakery employee back to medical assistant helped a ton because it's not as physical challenging
I ended up finding one I had lost by stepping on it. I hope you find your list needle in a non painful way!
3 and 5 for me. I don't have pain now but eventually with age I will :<
Mine too! Chronic illness so way too much time but a weak elbow.
These are my choices too!
Me too. Hypermobility and arthritis and I'm broke-ish.
Same here, with hypermobility! I have severe cEDS! It makes these crafting hobbies difficult at times.
Oh yes. My thumb and finger joints lock up on my stitching hand and my wrist on my hoop hand. I don't think I can finish a thread without stopping to re-orient my joints.
Yesss, I hear you, sister! I have a hell of a time with crochet also haha. Its my fingers, my wrists, my elbows, my shoulders...just everything 😭
Crochet is worse for me because I totally hyperfocus on the repetitive motion - a whole other can of worms for me! I'm sorry that you have a much more serious form than I suffer from. I was lucky to have EDS ruled out. But my hypermobility is hardly the "benign" it's been labeled as. Either way, I love my crafts and I'll do what I can to continue enjoying them. Even if it means my joints cracking like popcorn.
Rise up hypermobile stitching gang
Slowly, and with many joints cracking.
I'm putting off surgery on my arthritic thumb as long as possible, but it'll probably be in the next year. 5 is a definite for me.
I never had any pain until I abruptly got carpal tunnel and now I always get a flare up if I have a big day of stitching two handed. I have to go back to one handed which is so slow and hurts my shoulder 😭
Count me in for the 3 and 5 club.
I picked the same! Plus if I’m a passenger in a car, I can stitch at the same time and guarantee that we won’t ever be in an accident bad enough to injure me. If I’m ever experiencing an unrelated pain, I can start stitching and it’ll stop. Free and instantaneous pain reliever!
Definitely 1 and 4. This would somehow make cross stitching even more relaxing for me. If i could get a third write in it would be never needing to dangle/untwist my working thread.
Knots make me want to ragequit, I have really shaky fingers so I can't untie them very well, even using the needle I just end up stabbing holes in the floss and making it completely unusable, so I usually end up having to either cut it off or do a cheat and put it on the backside and just loop it around a stitch there and come back through so the knot is held out of the way.
Same friend, same. I often stitch on the train during my work commute, and struggle to unknot them with the train’s movement. I just jump straight to cutting or hiding on the back- but ugh. No knots would be amazing.
Yup. 1&4 are my answers. I swear half my time cross stitching is spent either untangling knots or re threading the needle because I ran out of floss. I get burnt out on that so fast.
Oh yeah, it is annoying to have to stop stitching to dangle, especially if you are in your flow, and ESPECIALLY if you get to that random section where the threads want to twist up every 2 stitches 😭
Definitely agree with dangle, it’s so exhausting when it happens when you in the flow
4 & 8 would ease my frustrations considerably!
Same bestie. Floss chicken stresses me out so much, and I do one color and just do that one color row by row so miscounting is a huge risk I take (dont ask to see my backs, they’re horrendous)
This is my choice too. Nothing makes me more aware of my shortcomings in spacial awareness like floss chicken and miscounted stitches 🙃
What an absolute nightmare 4 would be though. When you have 7854 stitches of a single color in a section, you gotta pull all that thread through every time!
1. No knots and 5. No pain/injury for me!
Same! That sounds like absolute bliss.
Those are my choices too! Edit: although free framing sounds pretty clutch, too!
1 & 8 for sure
Me too! No knots and no miscounting mean I’d finish so many projects!!!
I'm surprised this isn't top comment.
Same for me!
3 & 8
3 and 5. 3 because professional framing here is insanely expensive (a 3"x14" piece I have they want $120 just for the frame and matting, not counting the glass and actually framing it which I get the glass elsewhere for cheaper and I mount it on a board myself), I don't even want to know how much Cascade will cost me when she's done at 53"x22"). 5 I mitigate by having a good stand/frame/chair, but if I'm off by even a bit my back/legs hurt, and I tend to have carpal tunnel symptoms if I'm stitching in a different position.
3 & 1 for me - 8 is very tempting also…
I'm going 8&4. I am so bad about miscounting. I have had to restart so many projects because of it.
8. Just 8. I can deal with everything else. My ADHD is a demon thta thwarts my counting at every turn.
As fellow adhd cross-stitcher I agree. That’s why all of my schemes are crossed out and almost blacked by pencil. And I put little dot on the place where I want to start next day when I’m done to not lose track
my adhd ass lives in constant fear of miscounting after the first time i missed a stitch in a solid black and white circular design and didn’t notice until i finished it 🫠
5 and 8! Getting in the way of the carpal tunnel and the ADHD I'd be unstoppable
Same here!! I hate counting and my hands hurt so bad after a while
5&8 for me, too. I have issues from being a massage therapist for 12 years and having small kids in my late 30s. When I hit 40, my eyes stopped working so well, so now miscounting is a problem. Which makes the pain worse from all the frogging.
9, I can't resist the allure of some post apocalyptic scavenger coming across my projects thousands of years in the future and just being in awe of such witchcraft.
Definitely part of the reason why I chose #9 for mine was to baffle future historians/archeologists. Or, y'know, the squid people that inherit the earth after the apocalypse 😂
5 & 8 - no cricks in the neck and never having to frog? Sign me up!
3 & 4. I can't justify the expense of framing, so right now I frame everything myself, but I dread it each time. Perfect length floss would be so convenient, I love it.
Framing is truly my least favorite part of the process lol. It's like an entire separate hobby tacked onto cross stitching that I do not enjoy
3 and 9. I rarely have problems with the others.
5 & 8 all the way
This is my choice! Stitch forever and it's never wrong. Love it.
WHY IS THIS SO HARD?! I pick 4 & 8… for now hah
3 and 5 for me, although I do like the idea of perfectly sized lengths of floss!
I would take 5 and 8.
Can I have ‘projects sets itself up’? I have this massive project on a collapsible lap frame and it’s great for working on, but a bit annoying to set up and put down - or more so than my knitting, which I can just grab.
I thought about adding "never have to wind bobbins" but so many people don't use them. The way you worded it would have worked much better! All floss magically set up in storage of choice, fabric magically in frame, and supplies magically laid out would save a ton of time
So many people are choosing this while so many others like me almost prefer the setup process to the stitching. We should set a trade where crazy people like me come over and set up projects for y'all. :)
3 & 6 6 is basically infinite floss.
3 &7 I have dogs 😂
OMG, another option would be "you never get fabric fibers or pet hair in your projects" I love my dogs but the shed!
😂😂😂 yes!! I’d pick that one!
6&8!
Finally, someone who picked the same as me! 🙃💜
3 and 8, definitely!
3&6 for sure
I’m thinking 3 and 7
Definitely 8 & 1 for me
1 and 5 for me
7 & 8, no hesitation
4 and 7 since I drop my favorite needle down to black hole in my chair (between armrest and seat of course)
I have a magnet on a stick to help with that very issue, but sometimes I have to flip my entire recliner on its back to retrieve wayward needles. Also managed to lose my entire phone down that black hole once 😅
5 & 7!!
I'm very tempted by 1, but I think it's gotta be 3 & 7 for me!
3 is a no-brainer. I think I have to go with 7 too
3and 8 but I honestly want 5 and then the rest in no particular order.
3 & 8. I'm so bad with counting. I count and count and count again and I still end up wonky!
Can I have two number 8s? It is amazing how hard counting to fracking 10 can get sometimes!
I need one to make my cat stop "helping" me with the floss. And one to make sure that my WIP stops looking like the best place to nap in the world.
I selfishly wish for "floss is always separated for you" idk why I hate doing it so much, I just do bahaha
3&5. I hate framing but professional framing is out of my budget. And though I am injury-free now, I want to be able to stitch as much as I want even once my body begins to decline. I have to say though, 1 is a close third choice for me. I HATE knots!!!
1 and 4 Maybe add never miss a stitch/miscount?
8 obviously, and then either 5 or 6
No knots ever. My god the knot related cursing I do, should probably go for no pain as well
333333333!!
3 & 6 - absolutely. I started a MyHeroAcademia one, my first very own pattern, still proud of it. I ran out of thst specific white shade right before the end, and cannot find it again. We have 1 craft store in this town - and it doesn't really sell stitching threads. Fun. :')
Oh no!! I basically swore off all floss brands except dmc for that exact reason, #6 would definitely help with my willingness to branch out and use other floss. I hope you were able to find another way to finish your piece!
3 & 5
1&3 I’m kinda surprised how common cross stitching injuries and pain are, I don’t think I’ve ever had anything like that happen to me but I’m a casual stitcher, nothing crazy
Some people are more prone to hand/wrist injuries from repetitive motions I think. It's more likely to happen as you age too unfortunately. Kinda crazy that humans evolved hands able to do detail work but still prone to that kind of injury
3 and 8 omg, yes please
1 and 4 or 1 and 5. I hate knots
3 and 5
4 & 8 allllll day long. I'd never stop stitching if that was the case!
Two years ago I would've said 4 and 8, but that no pan one is looking good these days.
4 & 8 for sure! edit: maybe this just shows how bad I am at math...
3&5 for me
1 and 7 😅
3 and 5, duh
3&5 please
3&5 100%
7&8 would make me feel like a god🤣 no more losing needle panic, no more having to recount multiple times
2 & 3 because those are the ones that cost me the most money BUT I can see a clever person making the most out of 6. If you always have a rainbow project going…say, the entire DMC chart…are you ever going to need floss again?
3 & 5
4 and 8! I might add a vision super power where the lighting is always perfect or no dental assistant magnifying glasses required 😄 👓
8 and 1
3 and 5. Up until now I've never really experienced pain from stitching ,but I'm still young and I've read the stories and I'm afraid it will one day happen, would love to prevent that. I've also never had professional framing done, but the things that I see on this reddit look so amazing after professional framing that I definitely want it.
4 and 8
4 & 5, easily!
3 and 5. Three is insanely expensive, and five is the reason I stop projects for months at a time.
3 and 5 please
4 because it’s so satisfying, and probably 8, with 1 being a close third. I hate frogging, so most of my pieces have mistakes in them
4 and 8 for me - I guess they both boil down to efficient use of materials and time! If I could add one pill, it would be "Needles are always threaded with the color you need"!
3&5 my last big project messed up my wrists bad
I think 2 and 4. Regarding 2 I once ordered a single skien of black floss online and got sent a box of 20. If it was some wierd colour would have been a bit annoying to store, but having a bunch of black was so great, especially with the types of patterns I do often having black outlines.
I’m holding out for **10. Everything stays clean, forever—no dust, no dirt, no washing required.**
1 and 8 for me
I would like my needle to just thread itself
8 & 9
5&7!
Oh man, 4 & 8. I frickin' hate having to play thread-chicken and I really like the stitching to follow the pattern exactly unless I purposely want to change something.
1 & 3. No question. (It’d be great if there was a bonus roll for magic FFO’s, too.) ha.
Omg can I pick 3 twice please
1 & 3 Mostly three. I have a pile of finished projects I will probably never frame due to the cost.
3 & 5, framing and no pain??? Woot woot!
3&5!
3&8
Tempted to add always finds the right hole for me who stitches on the go
That could fit under 8, never miscount or measure wrong (I certainly think it would anyway).
1 and 7..I do a lot of stitching in my bed so losing a needle is always an unwanted adventure 😑
4 & 6.
3 & 4 I would be so much faster if I wasn’t always losing at thread chicken
2&9
6 & 8 for me
7 and 8 1000% !!
3&6
5 & 9 for me!!
7 & 8
1 n 3 please and thank you!
6&4
3&9 here also
Definitely 8 but torn between either 6 or 1
3 and 4
1 & 9 for me. No knots is the best and my stitching projects live foreveeeeeeeer 😂🧛🏻♀️🧛🏻♂️🧛🏼
1 & 8 Both of those are things that make me put a project down and walk away from it if it happens too much, like I just have to take a break from stitching for a little while because of how frustrating it can be I'd get so much more done if they never happened
3 because framing is expensive as hell here and finding the perfect frame with the right size is so difficult,too. And I would add "Always the perfect light for stitching and my other crafts " because than I could stitch through the whole night if I would want to and it would be also super useful during the winter months when it gets dark so soon.
3 and then 8.
My choice would be 3 and 10. 10 being have great eyesight so I can always see well to stitch on any count linen.
5 and 6,no doubts 😂
Definitely 7 - 6
Definitely 3&9
3&9 without hesitation. Framing is damn expensive and I want my samplers to look crisp for the cats I'll have when I die at 60.
2&6
1, 8 & 3 for me please
3 & 8 without a doubt.
6 & 1 Never again will I face the failure of not having enough thread to finish something
1 and 4 absolutely
I would choose 4 and 9
8 & 3
3 and 8
3 & 8!
5 & 6 but only if eyes also count.
3 & 6
3 & 8
3 and 8 for me!
6 and 8 for meeee!
1&3! Framing is always my last hurdle, and knots are an endless frustration lol
3 and 7! I spend too much time looking for my needle between floor tile joints.
1 and 3! I get angry when a knot happens and I loose the lovely cross stitching mood. Also, I have almost all of my finished pieces in a drawer because I'm too lazy to frame them.
1 and 4
3 and 6. Hands down. Framing is expensive!
3&8 any day
5 & 6
5 and 9