sewing needle

A sewing-needle, first softened and flattened into a blade, then retempered and sharpened, gives me a most delicate scalpel.

There was once upon a time a darning needle, that imagined itself so fine, that at last it fancied it was a sewing-needle.

To make it, take a rather large size of sewing needle—the kind known as a milliner's needle is about the best.

An oily sewing-needle will float upon the surface of water, when it is carefully let down to the water.

Fig. 38 shows a magnetized sewing-needle floated upon a cork.