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I remember laughing as my mom struggled to thread a needle. Glasses resting on her nose, she trimmed the end of the thread, sucked on it, failed to get it through the eye of the needle and re-trimmed it. 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. Then, just a few years ago, I realized it was me that couldn't get a limp piece of thread through a hole I couldn't see. And it wasn't so funny. My mom died in 1976, but .I could hear her laughter as I struggled to get that needle threaded. Surely someone had invented a better needle by now. So I went shopping for one. I found an open eye needle called the calyx needle (it has an opening at the top.) It was easy to thread, but the thread came out every time I used it. I tossed the needle in the trash. Obviously no one was ever going to invent a better needle. Forty years is long enough to wait for someone else to do something. I decided it was up to me. So I did it. I did it for Mom. I did it for all the moms. |
Pam Turner invented the Spiral Eye needle in memory of her mother. |
Spiral Eye Needles Never struggle to thread a needle again! Patent # US 8,151,720 B2 Patent # Canada 2,755,302 Patent # Europe 2,406,419 |
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