...are present in my home.

I have the Bermuda Triangle of size 26 tapestry needles in my home. Honestly.

No, it's not that I lose needles in a certain part of the house. That's not it at all. It seems that I *find* needles in a certain part of the house. It's the reverse triangle.

Has anyone ever figured out where those things that disappear in the Triangle go? Are there a bunch of stitchers that have disappeared in the Triangle? If there have been, I probably am the destination for their needles.

There's a certain spot in the carpet near my desk that seems to raise the needles from the presumed dead. Every time I vacuum in that area, my foot (which is usually bare) grazes something, and that something is always a needle.

My kids claim that these needles do not belong to them. I've checked their needle counts, and sure enough, it's not one of theirs. (We count their needles so in case they spill we can find them all, but they only have a couple of 26s - the rest of their needles are BIG) It's not one of mine either, since I've kept my 26s tucked away since Piecemakers started making 28s.

And these are definitely 26s. And I think they are Piecemakers, but I could be wrong.

They're definitely not my needles either because I keep close track of them. It could be that I've found a penchant for flinging needles halfway across the room from where I'm sitting when I stitch and the skill to have them land perfectly flat in the carpet fibers not to be noticed or raised by bare feet until the vacuum is run over them. I know I'm good, but I'm not that good.

I've not had a get-together at my house in a long while, and I don't recall anyone losing any needles into the carpet or dropping a bunch of them. So that can't be how they keep popping up.

The only explanation I can come up with is that there's one spot in my carpet that missing size 26 needles just show up at.

So if anyone is losing size 26 Piecemakers (or some other needle in a 26 that clearly isn't a petite), chances are I've got them in my carpet...

... or I will the next time I pull out the vacuum.