Snooze2978

The other day I asked where to find the numbered straight pins and was given a couple sites to check out. I hadn't realize just how expensive those little devils could be though. A couple folks gave me suggestions how to make my own with the flower head pins so I went online to see if WalMart had them as I have a store in my town. Yes, they carried them.....................but not in my store so would have to order them which with S&H would be kind of silly to me for a small package of pins as I couldn't find anything else I needed. So I went with Plan B.............looked for beads that someone suggested. Still couldn't find numbered beads but found a couple different alphabet sets. I really liked the wooded beads but too thick for what I wanted so settled for the small ceramic beads and larger plastic beads. Didn't know which size I'd like best so got them both. As I was running low on my straight pins with the yellow ball at the end, picked up a large box of them too.

So I pulled out 2 of each letter and strung them onto the pin, stuck them upside down on my ironing board and poured Elmer's Glue down the little hole to fill them up completely. I have the pin nozzle on my bottom of glue so this was easy. I let them dry over night and tried them out the next day. Worked like a charm for me so I'm ready when I get to the point to try out the bargello pattern.

Here's a pic of just some of my pins.