Today is Harikuyo, the festival of broken needles. Harikuyo is a memorial service for the broken sewing needles of the past year that is celebrated in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples across Japan, a ritual of thanks and respect for the tools of the sewing trade…but why limit it to that? Let’s honor our broken knitting needles and crochet hooks as well. The DPNs you sat on, the circs your cat successfully attacked and chewed… we’ll say they’re eligible, too.
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Mary Morley 05.17.09 at 2:03 pm
Would that also include the ones that went missing?