Hari-Kuyo Honors Our Needles UPDATED

My Old Needles

Today's February 8 here in Chilly Hollow so my old tarnished needles are now wrapped in pretty paper and tied with a raffia bow, ready to be ceremoniously placed in the garbage can.  The Festival of Needles is described in yesterday's and today's postings from the Japanese Embroidery blog.  That's not how I am celebrating but I am not Japanese and I need to modify their Shinto tradition of honoring old tools in my own way since sticking them into a block of tofu and tossing the tofu into the Shenandoah River doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
http://japanese-embroidery.blogspot.com/2011/02/harikuyo-festival-of-broken-needles.html

Stitching Fingers is celebrating by taking photographs of their pins and needles.  However you celebrate your needles, keep in mind that without their humble service, we could not do any form of stitching.
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/albums/festival-of-needles

UDPATE:  Carol-Ann's moving tribute to her needles has to be included here today.
http://threadsacrosstheweb.blogspot.com/2011/02/festival-of-needles.html

Susan has a wonderful project to honor her needles.
http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2011/02/festival-of-needles.html

http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-book-of-needles.html

Other folks are participating in their own way, which makes me happy.
http://acoloradostitcher.blogspot.com/2011/02/festival-of-broken-needles.html

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