So / Sew

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I sorted through my box of DPNs and circular needles this morning (there are an awful lot of both for someone who doesn't knit in the round), and came across these:
They had to have been my Grandma's, because they're steel, as a lot of her knitting needles were.  But, look at the size of those things!  
These aren't "darn"ing" needles;  these are "damn"ing needles!

And it it just me, or does my foot look weird in the first picture?  Like it's kind of disembodied or something.


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