Julie finds and refinds the thread

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Julie gets down on the floor and starts rummaging in the pile of hay. At some point she acquired a garden fork, and uses that to help spread the hay out. She eventually comes to the conclusion that there is no needle in the room, and that perhaps there is hay somewhere else with a needle in it, but Mark assures her this is not the case. She returns to moving the hay with her fork, and eventually stumbles across the thread. While following the thread through the hay, she accidentally breaks it, but then refinds the thread again, and is able to follow it to the needle. She completes the task in 13 minutes, and earns third place.

(Written by Karl Craven)