SINGER® Needle Guide
Choose Durability that Delivers Sewing Ease and Performance
Why SINGER® Needles Are Better
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Stronger Steel
Stronger needles last longer and stay sharp longer, to stitch cleanly through any material.
[Image: Close-up of a sewing needle tip showing its strength]
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Superior Needle Stiffness
SINGER® high-quality cold-forged steel sewing machine needles are manufactured with an exclusive flow pressing technique. This delivers incomparable bending stiffness to avoid needle breakage and skipped stitches.
[Image: Tweezer-like tool holding a sewing needle, emphasizing its stiffness]
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Threading Ease
A larger needle eye allows for an easier, faster, and more satisfying threading experience.
[Image: Close-up of a sewing needle eye, highlighting its size]
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Insert Ease
SINGER®' T-shaped needle head makes it easy to insert into your machine.
[Image: The head of a sewing needle, showing its T-shape]
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Smooth Thread Handling
SINGER® needles have perfectly rounded edges, eye and grooves. You will have 100% burr-free protection with your threads and fabrics while sewing.
[Image: Close-up of the eye and groove of a sewing needle]
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Shape Resilience
SINGER® exclusive Delta-U needle groove delivers more extreme needle bendability. Your needle will rebound to shape, producing a more accurate stitch.
[Image: Close-up of the groove of a sewing needle]
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Stitch Integrity
SINGER® proprietary CAE (Clearance Above Eye) needle design improves the thread-catching clearance. You'll experience fewer skipped stitches and less risk of collision with the bobbin case.
[Image: Diagram illustrating needle clearance and thread catching]
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Twin Needles: Stronger Bonding
SINGER® twin needles are welded together for a stronger bond. Welded twin needles last longer and perform better with fewer skipped stitches.
[Image: Two SINGER twin needles welded together]
SINGER® Needle Anatomy
[Diagram: A sewing needle with labels pointing to its parts: Point, Eye, U Blade, Needle Size, Needle Type, Shank]
SINGER® Needle Change Reminder Icon
SINGER® recommends to change your needle every 6-8 hours of sewing and/or type of fabric. ?
SINGER® Needle Compatibility
SINGER® needles are compatible with all brands and types of domestic sewing machines.
SINGER® Needle Fabric Types
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Universal
Fabric Use: Woven, Natural, Synthetic Fabrics
Benefits: Easily slips through weave of knits and woven fabric with rounded tip and tapered end.
[Image: Universal needle packaging and needle]
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Titanium Universal
Fabric Use: Woven, Natural, Synthetic Fabrics
Benefits: Easily slips through weave of knits and woven fabric with rounded tip and tapered end. The titanium coating resists adhesives, improves needle wear & penetration of densely woven fabrics.
[Image: Titanium Universal needle packaging and needle]
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Embroidery
Fabric Use: Rayon, Polyester and Other Specialty Fabrics
Benefits: Guard against excess friction allowing trouble-free embroidery and decorative stitching due to big eye and rounded point.
[Image: Embroidery needle packaging and needle]
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Titanium Embroidery
Fabric Use: Rayon, Polyester and Other Specialty Fabrics
Benefits: The titanium coating resists adhesives, improves needle wear & penetration of densely woven fabrics.
[Image: Titanium Embroidery needle packaging and needle]
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Denim
Fabric Use: Extra Thick Fabric (Medium Weight Denim Fabrics)
Benefits: Reduces breakage and skip stitches with a sharp point and reinforced blade.
[Image: Denim needle packaging and needle]
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Ball Point
Fabric Use: Knit Fabrics
Benefits: Designed to slide between the yarns of knit fabrics without snagging with a rounded tip.
[Image: Ball Point needle packaging and needle]
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Leather
Fabric Use: Heavy Leather, Vinyl (Medium Leather and Vinyl Fabrics)
Benefits: Cuts through leather and other heavy non-woven imitation leathers and suedes without creating large holes due to the needle's wedge shape slightly sharp cutting point.
[Image: Leather needle packaging and needle]
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Overlock
Fabric Use: Woven and Stretch Heavy Weight (Medium Weight Fabrics)
Benefits: Designed specifically for overlock stitching.
[Image: Overlock needle packaging and needle]
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Microtex
Fabric Use: Tightly Woven Mid Weight Fabrics
Benefits: Perfect for microfibers, polyester and other synthetic fabrics. This needle is indicated for topstitching and precision quilt piecing due to very slim acute point.
[Image: Microtex needle packaging and needle]
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Quilting
Fabric Use: Quilting Heavy Woven Fabrics (Light and Medium Weight Fabrics)
Benefits: Perfect for quilting and topstitching due to the needles very slim acute point. Allows easier fabric penetration and helps eliminate skipped stitches with a special tapered tip of the needle.
[Image: Quilting needle packaging and needle]
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Titanium Quilting
Fabric Use: Quilting Heavy Woven Fabrics
Benefits: Perfect for quilting and topstitching due to the needles very slim acute point. The titanium coating resists adhesives, improves needle wear & penetration of densely woven fabrics.
[Image: Titanium Quilting needle packaging and needle]
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Stretch
Fabric Use: Stretch Fabrics (Medium Weight Fabrics)
Benefits: Perfect for sewing through stretch fabrics, the point is rounded but less rounded than ball point to pierce through thicker threads.
[Image: Stretch needle packaging and needle]
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Topstitch
Fabric Use: Topstitch Medium Weight Fabrics
Benefits: Achieve perfectly straight stitch lines for heavy or multiple threads with this very long eye of the needle.
[Image: Topstitch needle packaging and needle]
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Wing
Fabric Use: Woven and Natural Heavy Weight Fabrics
Benefits: For beautiful hem stitches, wing needle punches a hole into your fabric while the sewing machine stitches around the piercing.
[Image: Wing needle packaging and needle]
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Universal Twin
Fabric Use: Medium Woven Fabrics
Benefits: Create two rows of stitches simultaneously and uses two spools of thread and one bobbin thread.
[Image: Universal Twin needle packaging and needle]
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Stretch Twin
Fabric Use: Stretch Fabrics (Light and Medium Weight Fabrics)
Benefits: Creates a dual stitch through stretch fabric with a rounded tip of the needle to pierce through thicker fabric.
[Image: Stretch Twin needle packaging and needle]
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Denim Twin
Fabric Use: Thick Denim Fabrics
Benefits: Reduces breakage and skip stitches due to reinforced blade with the rounded tip and tapered end.
[Image: Denim Twin needle packaging and needle]
SINGER® Needle Type & Size
Needle Type:
- Topstitch
- Quilting
- Universal
- Microtex
- Denim
- Leather
- Wing
- Embroidery
- Stretch
- Overlock
[Image: Visual representation of different needle types]
Needle Size:
- 60/08
- 70/10
- 80/12
- 90/14
- 100/16
- 110/18
- 120/19
- 130/21
[Image: Visual representation of different needle sizes]
Informative Packaging
SINGER® needle packaging informs you with type of needle and the recommended needle size based on type of fabric. SINGER® loves to educate our users with “How To” videos linked from our QR codes.
[Image: SINGER needle packaging showing size, type, and fabric association]
Needle Change Reminder Icon: ?
QR Code for Educational Sewing Videos
Package Benefit Statement Translations
Since 1851, the SINGER brand continues to be the best selling sewing machine brand in the world and a leader in sewing innovation.
Made in Brazil
SINGER® Videos
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