I replied to a post about basting and the new product I found for basting. I found these and ordered them and thought I post the link here as some don't read all the post on the main board to know about this new product.
http://www.pinmoor.com/ :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

do you like them?

I first tried them out at a guild workshop when another quilter brought some to baste her quilt. She let me baste my quilt with some too. They are great!

those are cool, thanks for sharing!

This will be so great - arthritis in the fingers! Need to save my pennies! Thank you for sharing! Pricey but maybe we can put our heads together and think of something to use in its place.

Quilter711

They sure look easier than safety pins.

I tried using foam and other items but they fall off. Nothing worked like the real thing I used at the workshop. That's why I ordered them. My grandmother always told me: You never forget the cost of of something that breaks or doesn't work but you never regret the cost of something that lasts and does the job it's suppose to.

They do look kind of fun, wonder if they're similar to some of the safety ear plugs we use.

I think the price of pinmoors is a trifle steep. So here is what I have done. I have gone to the dollar store and bought erasers (the dense white ones) in packs of three for a dollar and then cut them into cubes with the xacto knife. These work perfectly and at very little expense. We all have ball top pins to use.

Try it.

Gloria

hmmmmmmm GOOD IDEA!!

I ordered some of the pinmoors, and I really like them. They are so much easier than using safety pins. I ordered two sets, a bit expensive, but thought they were worth having.

I bought some and really like them. Very easy to use.
Janet

I was astonished at this because I thought I came up with a nice inexpensive way to do it also,but never posted the idea. Here it is, I take my hot glue gun and make small dots and use them to put on the end of my pins.

I have a set of Pinmoors and I don't know how I lived without them! I'm going to ask Santa for another set!

This has been discussed on another list, and one lady found 3M disposable ear plugs / hearing protection from one of her local hardware stores.

Rather than the 80 plugs, the package actually uses PAIR as their unit of measure, so the package has 160 plugs, further reducing the price of the substitute to a small fraction of the Pinmoors. She ended up paying $13.45 USD, to get 160 plugs, and they do the same job.

Great ideas but the erasers are the most cost effective. I get about 60 pieces for a dollar. Just a bit of effort is needed to cut the erasers to size.

But not as good. I have tried the earplugs, foam blocks and earring backs. I would have thought they were working fine if I hadn't use the Pinmoors first. So far nothing has done the job like the Pinmoors for me.