Thread: Warning! Pins and needles in your mouth

Originally Posted by Boopers

I also did this. The solution is to use a magnet on your shirt. The soft craft kind. You cut two pieces, one under your shirt and the other on top to catch the pins. Works great.

That is a fabulous idea! thank you.
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April

How frightening for you, Im glad your okay. Thanks for sharing your story to help save the rest of us.

eek. I do this ALL the time. I need to make myself a wrist pincushion I guess. I have allergies too. yikes. I do usually only put in a few at a time and grab them out if I think I'm going to sneeze but there have been times I sneezed without warning.

Thank you for this reminder!
Glad you were ok.. I'm very guilty of this. :oops:
Just last week I had a pin in my mouth and my DS snuck up behind me (as he always does to scare me), well, I almost swallowed it. :shock:
Did I yell? Yep, better believe it. But I shouldn't have a pin in my mouth either. :roll: Bad me!!! :evil:

Originally Posted by donnajean

I think I had an instinctual fear of swallowing a pin. I now have a habit of sticking pins in the front of my shirt/dress if I am not near the pin dish. Yes, I ocassionally forget to remove them & stick myself later.

Me, too.

Better than down my throat, though.

I was taught when I learned to sew that you were never to put them in your mouth. I still did it, all the time. I didn't stop until I started teaching my granddaughter to sew. I didn't want her to learn from my bad example. Your story makes me glad I stopped doing it. Glad you were okay.

I too stick the pins in my blouse/shirt/dress front, as well as any trimmed threads. Just sew much easier than looking for a place to put threads or pincushion. MANY times I have gone out of a class or my home covered in "designer accessories" LOL

Originally Posted by Terryl

I too stick the pins in my blouse/shirt/dress front, as well as any trimmed threads. Just sew much easier than looking for a place to put threads or pincushion. MANY times I have gone out of a class or my home covered in "designer accessories" LOL

Ummm - me, too.

Thanks for the reminder.

Wow, thanks for the warning...I'm guilty of sometimes putting them in my mouth. I'm really going to try to remember not to from now on!