Originally Posted by tlrnhi
and have also safety pinned my quilts to the carpeting too! It works!
Usually one only does that once (or one intents to only do it once - speaking from experience). lol
One point I wanted to add: If you use pins for basting, I would suggest the bent quilting pins and spend the extra money to get the closing tool. (Looks like a screwdriver with a blunt end and it saves your fingers.)
Don't lay out your sandwich on anything where scratches would be a bad thing. It is easy to scratch the surface with the pins - particularly when working fast.