Originally Posted by Carron
I glued a narrow magnetic strip across the top front of my sewing machine. Then when I am sewing something that has the straight pins and as they approach the needle, I pull them out and stick them onto the magnetic strip. Nothing falling onto the floor or worse into the lap.
Great ides, but if you have a computerized mmachine, be careful. I was having a problem with my machine,, took it in for service, the tech said that the magnetic strip was causing a problem with the machine. moved the strip 12" away, on my table,, nno more problem