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I have used brass 1" pins and I also use a Kwik Klip. I also have NEVER pin basted a quilt on a floor when there always is a LQS in the neighborhood where I can comfortable pin my quilts in their classroom (when not occupied).

Thanks for all the input. I have used the basting spray a lot, and will continue to use it for big quilts. The quilt I am pinning now as a wallhanging, so pinning was just as easy for me & less expensive! I have a Kwik Clip which a board member sent me when I first started quilting. I have to baste my big quilts on the floor and I just hate doing that! the last time I laid one out to baste, I picked it back up & took it to a quilter!

Oh, another thought……a woman in my guild doesn't close her pins on small projects, and she is an excellent quilter.

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Originally Posted by Dina (Post 6612407)

I used the curved basing pins, and they are around one inch long...just measured one. I also have some straight ones, and I like the curved ones better.

I also use a tool that sort of looks like a screwdriver to help close and open the pens when they are in the quilt. It is called a Kwik Klip. You might be interested in one of those if you decide pens is the way you prefer to baste. I've never tried any other method, as this works fine for me. The Kwik Klip keeps my fingers from getting sore and speeds things up. You put all the pins in, leaving them open, and then take the Kwik Klip and just snap each closed.

http://www.google.com/#q=Kwik+Klip&t...52096839510432

Dina

That's what I do also. I pin baste all of my quilt sandwiches and I always use the 1" curved pins and the Kwik Klip.

The few times I use safety pins, I use the colored ones and don't close them at all. This with my DSM only.

I use "pins" that come in a bottle labeled "Elmer's".

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Originally Posted by Dina (Post 6612407)

Same here. I love the story/joke about the husband who was helping his wife pin a quilt. It was taking him a long time because he stopped to straighten all the pins. :-) I have tried the 505. When I cleaned the overspray off my table, I decided I did not want any of that inside my quilt. So I'm back to pinning.

Mine are curved and I put the plastic covers on them. It sure helps and also got the handle to close and unclose my pins.
So much easier to use especially since I dislike this part of making quilts so much.