oneword.: needle: "In the hot little room, the ten of us learned how to thread a needle and tie a knot at the end. Outside the silence rang in my ears until it threatened to deafen me. Mrs Plant showed me again how to spin the thread over my finger to make the knot. When I showed Grandma she seemed annoyed. Mrs Plant wasn't doing it just the way my Gran had shown her. In the bush school we learned to thread the needle Mrs Plant's way. "