I use a jean needle also, but was told that you could use your regular needle..
I use either a 90/14 jeans needle or an embroidery needle (90/14 too). The eye of the first is large enough not to fray the thread.
I, too, use a 90/14 for jeans. But that would be up to your machine which one she prefers.;)
No. I have done regular embroidery on scrap jean material to show samples before. Never had a problem.
I used a 14/90 emb needle to do emb on fairly thick denim. Had no problems with it. *4u