Thank you for all your help! I'll be looking for those needles, to be sure. I'm not ready to give up on something I've loved all my life, not until I have to do it. Until then, life is all about adaptation and modification. I have loved sewing for almost 50 years, quilting in my later years (when I could stop making all those clothes for kids and formal wear for weddings that I could sell for extra money). Quilting is something I find peaceful, creative and rewarding in ways that are just hard to describe. I want to quilt until I drop dead, like my great-grandmother did. She was the one who taught me to sew, and also left me several finished quilt tops for me to make into quilts when she died. What a blessing she was to me!
This Board really rocks!!!!