Many people know them as the “devil’s darning needles” because of their long, thin shape. Dragonflies tend to be 2 or 3 inches long, but some damselflies are less than an inch. Colors are ...

I handled Injuries like those pretty well. Manage the pain and move on, I guess. But it's those darn needles during blood draws that get to me. I think I can recall every time I've been forced to ...

Lying children, scolding women and cursing men were all considered to be at risk from the "devil's darning needle." Dragonflies were also thought capable of bringing snakes back to life.

There was once a king who had been married twice, first to a beautiful woman who had died giving birth to her son and secondly to a beautiful princess with a bad disposition. The first baby was named ...

He looked, and there gleaming up at him like a reptilian eye glittered in his incision the end of a steel darning needle. Gravely he turned to the father, who had come up, to the mother ...

Cut your yarn with scissors, leaving enough to sew with, thread the end into a darning needle.Transfer the stitches onto the darning needle and draw the yarn through.Insert the needle into the ...

It appears that in June, 1926, Miss Dora Watkinson, a maid at Westly Hall, trod on a darning needle, which entered her right foot and broke. The foot was X-rayed. Apparently she felt no ill ...

Here’s my quote for the day. I found it in a Los Angeles Times interview with Susan Faludi, author of the forthcoming book “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in ...

Khounnoraj, author of the 2020 book Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning, Stitching and Patching the Clothes You Love, and other textile artists explain how anyone with basic sewing skills ...