How can I make sewing less painful if I have arthritis?

If you love to sew but find standard methods and tools too hard to use, don’t give up on your favorite pastime -- just change your tools and techniques. Place your portable sewing machine on an adjustable ironing board. This will allow you to adjust the height of the machine for maximum comfort.

An adjustable ironing board can be a wonderful work surface for many projects. Avoid bending to pick up pins. A magnetized screwdriver, reacher or yardstick with a magnet glued to the bottom will pick up steel straight pins and other metal objects without bending.

Sewing and mending are easier if you use lightweight electric scissors and either straight pins with large balls on top or glass-headed quilting pins. Use a hanging magnifying glass. To help you see what you are working on, without getting a crick in your neck, try wearing a magnifying glass specially designed to hang around your neck.

Find these unique products at sewing or craft stores. Use a potato to thread needles. To make it easier to thread a needle, stick the needle into an apple or a potato and place it on a shelf or counter that’s at eye level.

Then, you can easily see to thread the eye. Or, you might purchase self-threading needles. Rethread needles as soon as the thread is used up so your needles are always ready to use.

Self-threading needles are available at fabric stores.

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