As a matter of fact, this is one of my favorite stories. I took 5 years of Home Ec back in the mid 50's and I was home sewing a school project when I impaled my thumb. The needle wouldn't budge up or down. Now I am really stuck so I started yelling for Grandpa to come help me. Here he come slowly and ended up getting a pair of pliers and getting the needle out of my machine first, and then out of my finger. My Grandpa was dying of cancer and got out of his sick bed to help me. A week later he passed away. Grandpa lived with us from during WW2, after my Grandma died, till 1959. He was the love of my life, right up there with my hubby. For Christmas that year, he gave me two Beacon blankets for my hope chest. That was 52 years ago and I still have them. Good blankets. I am not sure if Beacon is even in business now. Jan