Where do you start your Binding? (Straight no angles)?

YES get one. I use a long quilting pin if I can't find mine when I'm sewing

I use a corsage pin. Cheap and effective! :)

I use an orange stick that you find in the personal care section of a store. They are used for manicures and have a sharp tip on one end and an angled tip on the other. They are made of wood. Inexpensive and works great.

Bonnie Hunter's site has instructions for making a beaded stiletto out of the needle you use to close a turkey you're roasting (does anyone do that anymore?!?) http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/...stilettos.html

I use a sitello all the time. Best tool I ever bought.

Love the idea of the porcupine quills. They are super pretty. Just ordered some from etsy. Yeah.

I have an old metal cuticle pusher (has flat end and pointed end) and I use my seam rippers. Pencils (eraser end). Depends on the fabric.

I use my stiletto esp. joining the end of pieces with points such as trianges.

Another trick that I was taught is to use a trailing pin. You put the pin in point first at the pointy end where you will end sewing. The pin should be to one side of the where you sewing machine needle with go thru the fabric. As the feed dogs pull the fabric away from you, just hold the top of the pin and slowly let it slide out of the fabric as the fabric moves.

You will finish with a perfect 1/4 inch seam rather than one that veers crooked. Works like a charm. Just be sure your sewing machine needle doesn't hit the pin. I hold the pin start helping it extract before the machine needle reaches it. Stitch slowly at this point.

This is what I use... I cut them in half, put cut one into pencil sharpener to get the point on it too and then have plenty of them. With these it is a bit safer ifi it gets under the needle