My MIL, Alice, was an artist and worked in many media. She made a 14 X 18 Art Deco of strangely shaped embroidered flowers and was filling in the background with an all-over pattern. When I inherited this 30 years ago, it was not quite finished. There are just a few stitchies missing in the background, but the needle is still in it. It has been stuck tight all these years. She died in 1986. I think it is charming with the needle and thread still in it. I will be giving it to her great-granddaughter, Alice, soon, with the needle in it.