Been there done that. I still hear about the wedding quilt I made for my daughter and when they opened it at the shower my son in law got stabbed with it. My main concern is loosing pins or needles in baby quilts so I now take my needle out when I am finished for the day. I also have left pins, the kind with the heads on them in quilts, I have always been able to get them out, not with the head but it was the pin that concerned me, I think the head buried its self in the batting when I pulled it off the pin.