So I get stabbed by a pin now and then. I survive, so long as I don't get blood on anything I'm Okay. I saw this pin thing, I too think it to costly & space consuming. I don't use a pin cushion either. I have my pin laying flat in a plastic case & I get pricked rarely. I rather have another bobbin winder. I recently tried two (one after the other) same kind, bother from Hancock and neither worked right. So I gave up. May see about getting another from another place but will look at it first because I notice these neither one's starter button stuck up very much like my other one.