How to do a sew in: Threading needles

Hey everyone, it's your girl TT Does It All with how to thread needles for a sew-in. And I'm just going to show you all a little bit of my work first so you can see how I do my sew-ins and how my work looks. This is for my Snapchat. My username is TT Does It All on everything, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook.

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But this is a natural part leave-out with the hairline left out as well..

And then the next one is kind of a little bit of my frontals, and I have very detailed step-by-step videos on both of these installs, the frontal as well as the lace closure and the natural part leave-out. But at the end of this video, I will show you exactly what I need as far as how many needles for each sew-in and long or short. But for this video, I'm showing you exactly what I would use for something like a lace closure. So I use long threaded needles and short threaded needles, and for the long ones, I pull 3 times in there, um, from one arm to the other arm with both arms extended out. So as you see, that was the third time. And I cut that, and then I thread my needle, and I even each side up as far as much as I can. And then I go all the way, I connect both of the two ends, I tie them together, and I tie them together about 3 to 4 times, just depending on how thick the knot is. I knotted about, again, 3 to 4 times, and then I pull it completely up to the needle, just kind of making sure that there— that loop right there, I don't want that, of course, when I start sewing. So when I finish threading or knotting this, this thread, I'm going to pull that loop all the way to the needle just to make sure that it's even when I go to reach for a needle to start sewing in for a client. So as I say in every video, this of course is YouTube, so you can pause, replay, fast forward, and I will show me knotting and I will show me threading multiple times. But this one, I'm threading another long needle, so I'm doing the 3 stretches. I cut, I I thread my needle, I knot the end, and then, and then first of all, I even them out. I knot the end 3 to 4 times, and then I pull it out, stick the needle in my Styrofoam head, and I thread all of my needles. I buy like packs of 10 needles at a time, so there's been a time where I've had like 30 or 40 needles Whenever my needle dulls out, I throw it out, and whenever my needle breaks, of course I throw it out. So there are some times where I'll be threading a client's head and my needle will just snap in half and break. Um, so I keep a lot of needles on hand at a time, and I thread them all at the beginning of my day. And yeah, so here is 1, 2, 3, and that again is one of my long needles. So for one sew-in, for a full sew-in with a lace closure, I need about 4 or 5 of these for a full sew-in. And then I will need the 2 short ones, which are actually what I use for the closure. And you see, instead of doing 3 long ones, I just do 2, and then I cut. And I do the same thing where I thread the needle with it, and then I measure, and then I knot it and I put it on the mannequin head.

So for a frontal sew-in, I need 5 short needles and 4 long needles, and 2 of the short needles are for above the ears to sew the frontal down. Along the back of the line of the frontal and then to stitch a stitching in the middle. And I have a frontal step-by-step video to show you how to sew all those in. The lace closure is what you just watched in this video, so 2 short for the closure and then the rest for the back. For a natural part leave-out sew-in, I just need the 4 to 5 long needles and then 1 short needle just in case I run out of thread around the very end. Since the versatile sewing is a smaller section, I use short needles to start off, 2 of them. Then I'll use the rest of the long needles, and then I will finish off with the short needle if I run out of thread.

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