Blog Hop #16 Missing Needles

Today's entry is interesting.  How many needles have you lost? Feel free to estimate. Tell us your best “lost needle” story

Missing needles, huh?  I'm happy to say that I have only lost one needle in my 30 some years of stitching.  I've always been very careful to keep my needles where they can't get lost.  I guess it goes back to when I was young and a friend of mine stepped on a needle in her bare feet and actually had to have surgery to remove it.  That made such an impression on me that I've always kept track of any needles I was using.  Now I did lose one needle but I found it again rather quickly.  In my elbow.  See, I had this bad habit of sticking the needle I was using in the arm of my chair.  I always knew where it was and it really was only a temporary place for it.  So I was happily stitching away and stuck it in the arm when I was getting a new thread ready.  I flung my arm down on the arm of the chair and, you guessed it, I found the needle.  Rather painfully, I might add.  I pulled it out of my elbow and promptly took myself off for a tetanus shot.  Since then, I have always parked my needles in a pin cushion or on the work itself in an area on the edge of the fabric.

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