Needle loss

(1989 November 12)

A catastrophe - I had been working on my needlepoint and stretched out my hand on the arm of the chair and dropped my needle (no yarn in it) which I cannot find. Kathy [live-in schoolgirl] looked too and used magnet and flashlight. Has no point, a dull end and large eye. Is this called a bodkin? No - that has a different eye, flat, for running ribbon thru - not popular now. But it is something like that. About this long [diagram 2 inches long = 50 mm]. But found another - will do. It is like a short thick darning needle, really. May turn up. Wish me luck. (P.S. A person should have more than one, I know).