The problem of threading a needle has infuriated even the best seamstresses but one clever woman seems to have solved the the age-old complication with a new invention.

Pam Turner came up with the ingenious idea of the Spiral Eye, a stainless steel side threading needle, after watching her own mother struggle to get cotton through the tiny hole

The innovative little pin allows people to drape a loop of thread over the needle before pulling it in, around the tongue and into the eye.

It takes seconds for even the most clumsy person to pull the cotton through the sewing pin, which costs just £3.69 for the basic needle, which Pam claims you can do with your eyes closed.

The grandmother had to completely reinvent the traditional method of needle making in order to construct the revolutionary invention.

She said: “I remember laughing as my mum struggled to thread a needle.

“Some times she would curse, ‘Why can’t someone invent a better needle? We’ve been to the moon for goodness sake.’

“Eventually she would break down and ask one of us kids to thread it for her.”