It's even worse when you do embroidery in bed

Or someone else loses a pin, and decides some other poor soul can have a bad start to their day by finding a half inch tack suck up the sole of their foot. Siblings are bastards.

don't sew over carpet. I learned my lesson with 2 $300 bongs... now my bong has a rule that it cannot travel over anything besides carpet... even when I clean it.

Use a magnet

It's a needle in a carpet! (haystack if you don't get the joke)

I know him as Waldo.

When i was in 2nd grade we would have craft time where we could sew puppets or whatever & one kid lost his needle. He was on the floor looking for it & ended up finding it after it had gotten pushed halfway into his kneecap! Almost 30yrs later & I STILL remember that day. I still get queasy thinking about how it looked sticking out of his leg...