Re: pin tips

I don't use them much, but when I do, they need to be great pins. Real
glass heads (so you can accidentally press one and it won't melt). And
they do need nice smooth heads (maybe not bodies too like Polly's pins
:-), but something you can snag out from under the presser foot with
your thumbnail at the last moment.

The magnet pin holder is great for cleaning the floor, on the rare
occasion that I use a pin and drop it. There's a little pincushion
attached to the front of my machine, handy for keeping a few beautiful
pins with blue glass heads. And one big fat pin for teasing out thread
bits or pushing seam edges into place.
Roberta in D

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:33:25 -0500, "Polly Esther"
<bhmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm thinking there are enough newbies among us that our tricks with pins
need to be repeated. Here are mine.
The floor in my sewing room is such a busy tile that you could easily
lose a goat with a bell tied around her neck. It is simply impossible to
find every fallen pin. We have a Yorkie who's eager to crunch the head off
of every stray pin and I just Must keep that from happening. If you have an
active QI, especially a kitty, you might want to try this.
We found some straight pins that have a head that looks much like the
4-hole button from a man's shirt. I tied red embroidery floss through the
holes. When a pin hits the floor, it's so easy to see that I can grab them
before Yogi does. Problem solved.
When you birth a quilt, it's easy to forget to leave an opening for a
'turn-through'. You only have to forget once to realize that a reminder is
a good thing. We take straight pins and make an 'X' with two pins for a
starting place. Then we take 2 more pins and place them in an 'X' position
for where to stop. Another problem solved.
I know that stitching over pins is an issue we will never resolve, much
like whether to wash or not to wash. Do you have a pin tip that our new
quilters need to know? Polly


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