1. You have to catch a camel. AND give him a good brush up.



2. You must clean, card, and spin the camel's combed hair.
3. The spun camel hair thread will pass through the eye of a needle.
A CAMEL HAS PASSED THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE.
Getting the camel hair thread through the eye of a needle can be tricky. It may help to know, generally speaking, how a needle is made.
Steel is squeezed through consecutively smaller holes until it reaches the desired dimensions of the needle. A hole is punched through one end and a point is made at the other end.

In olden times needles were hard to come by and one needle was carefully housed in some pretty ingenious needle cases. A favourite gift for a sailor's lady was a whalebone needle case carved with care during long trips at sea. Often the sailor decorated the exterior with etching on its outer surface: scrimshaw.

Sometimes these needle cases held tools for tatting and netting and sewing.
Nowadays, there are needles for just about every use. Small, sharp needles are used in quilting, while small blunt needles are used in petitpoint needlework.

Needles come with big eyes and little ones, with round eyes and oval ones. And some have square eyes. Some needles are really 2 pieces of steel joined at each end: twist them and an elongated