Susan Bates 14085 Steel Weaving Needle, 5-Inch, Silver/Steel

Verrry long. Longer than I expected. Check the description.

Perfect. Long and blunt, sturdy

Perfect for what I needed for thick crochet items.

Okay quality. Needle could be more smooth and polished.

This needle is super sturdy. I use it to hide ends in amigurumi projects. Its saved me so much aggravation.

I will be using them to make knit parts for toys. I saw a knitter use them to make eyes so that is my hope.

I actually purchased this item as being longer than conventional wool needles for stitching and joining parts of knitted toys and pom pom animals.

I liked the length of these sturdy needles, but they are too sharp to use with weaving on a loom. I may try to file them down so they arent so sharp. The needles are good quality, just too sharp for my purpose.

This needle was recommended as a must have for making Swedish weave/huck embroidery afghans using monks cloth. While its length does save some time in stitching long pattern runs, I feel that the size of the head is too large for the floats. It does go through, but not smoothly. I much prefer the smaller tapestry needle that Ive been using.

I bought some of these in the hopes that I could use them as replacement needles for my weave-it and loomette looms. The eye part of the needle is too fat to make it smoothly between the pins, will sort of work on the loomettes (if youre really careful) but will definitely not make it through the weave-its or the skillex as its just too fat.