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07-09-2011, 03:29 PM

#11

QuiltnNan

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are you kidding? that's a lot of $$ just to hand you pins.

07-09-2011, 03:55 PM

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deplaylady

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Had to google it and check it out and its demo video - its huge! I don't see how it would be any easier than grabbing pins from my pin cushion and I don't see how it would help in returning the pins to the pin cushion as I was sewing. It WOULD keep Rahja from pulling the pins out of the pin cushion and dropping to the floor - one of his favorite pastimes if I don't keep an eye on him in the sewing room.

07-09-2011, 04:31 PM

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quiltsRfun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by qbquilts

Is this the spinning drum (similar in shape to a concrete truck) that you drop the pins into and then it neatly lines them up and gives them to you 1 at a time? If so, then I saw it at Hancock Fabrics awhile back. I thought it was one of the silliest things on the market.

I saw it too. Didn't think much of it. Besides that, none of my pins would work with it. I can see that it might be useful for a dressmaker but I wasn't impressed at all.

07-09-2011, 07:13 PM

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blueangel

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Haven't seen it

07-09-2011, 07:28 PM

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sewnsewer2

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I saw one too and thought THAT THING IS HUGE! It looks like more of a nusance to me. Just my opinion.

07-09-2011, 07:37 PM

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lindy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sewnsewer2

I saw one too and thought THAT THING IS HUGE! It looks like more of a nusance to me. Just my opinion.

Nuisance - perfect description!

07-09-2011, 08:41 PM

#17

Eri

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This device does seem a little ridiculous--I'm more concerned about recovering my used pins that are always falling off the table (I'm not coordinated enough to get them into the pin cushion while keeping the fabric going straight at the same time!) than acquiring a ridiculous device just to hand them to me. One of my teen boys brought our nail sweeper in (a big magnet on a stick that looks like a miniature push broom used on construction sites to clean up dropped nails and other iron/steel items) and swept my sewing room with it--he came up with hundreds! No wonder my little tomato always looks empty even though I keep buying new pins...