fancypins
 

Fancy pins...has there ever been a swap on this???
quick and light to mail.
Just courious

Everyones looking, no ones posting.
Ive got some beauties ive made, and recd.
crystals,pearls beads ect.

I'm not sure what you mean by a fancy pin - for wearing? for sewing with? for using to decorate with? Could you post a picture?

Alison

Do you make them? How?

I don't know what fancy pins are either. That is why everyone is just looking!!

What dumb bunny would mail a pincushion full of pins in a paper package? :shock:

I would like to see pictures too. This might be interesting, but would like to know more about them.

I, too, am wondering about these pins. Would like to see a pic and know how they are used.

O.k. so i make them out odf corsage pins or longer.
Can be used for quilting but if you have a pretty pincushion
You might like a nice pin to put in it.
I've decorated mine with glass and crystal beads. Have purchased some from the scrapbook section, or just added cute fimo clay toppers or even made tops from shrinky dink material. Wish i could post a pic for you, no camera.

My sister-in-law makes something like you have described. She uses them for hat pins. They are sure pretty, but I have never known what to do with them. I don't wear hats and they don't look too good on ball caps. :) (She wears large brimmed, protection from the sun, straw hats...or I think they are straw. Guess I don't know what they are made of.)

I can see one looking good in my pin cushion though. Wonder where I put the one she gave me...

Dina

I'm not familiar with these either...but I think Fancypins might be a cute name for someone to use on the Quilting Board! I did a Google search and there's info out there...here's a link to some pictures.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fancy...w=1440&bih=706

[QUOTE=BellaBoo;5704823]What dumb bunny would mail a pincushion full of pins in a paper package?

OK, no name calling. I would stick the pins in a small square of fabric and mail them in a padded envelope. No pincushion required.
Robin in TX

These are some of the fancy pins I have made for decorating pin cushions. I usually just take something I think is cute and hot glue it to a flower quilting pin. The others I just make out of beads. Not sure this is what you are talking about.

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I worked at the PO before I retired, you would be shocked at what people mail!! Expensive gifts in the type of box for under the tree, some complete with wrapping paper and get upset when it gets crushed!! Yea, they are out there and they breed!

I have thought about making some of these, but didn't know where to get the really long pins that didn't already have a fancy top.

Those are the kind im talking about.
i have a pretty crystal canndlestick with a white pin cushion on top, pearls and rystals. I put my fancy pins in them.
i love them

too pretty for me to feel ok about using! I like them alot just wouldn't use them to sew with.

I have a few I received in pin cushion swaps and they are so pretty but I wouldn't use them. I just look at them and smile. :-)

I have some hatpins I have collected to put in a couple of antique hat pin holders. I think they are longer than a corsage pin.

Sounds interesting...really wish you could send pics.

Look back a few pgs.

They look and sound gorgeous

Well this sounds interesting. I have several corsage pins. Think I'll try & think of something I can do.

Common sense disappeared a long time ago when electronics arrived on the scene. All we need is a thumb.

I don't know. But probably not anyone in this thread, including the OP.

Me, I'd stick the sharp ends in a cork, or nestle them in tissue paper inside a plastic travel soap box.

Rats....I thought you were talking about brooches. I really don't have space for these cute pins. An exchange could be fun.

You could always exchange the brooch pins, they look great as a pc decoration. And of course you must wrap the pins safely.
I just took it for granted that they would be.

I have a pretty pin, not for sewing, stuck in a pc. Makes it nice.
i just bought a jewelish button an making a black velvet pn with the button, whitr rhinestones and silvertone metal.

I love the mouse pin at the top right of the pin cushion! That is so cute!

Seems like you should be able to assume that!

I think these pins are lovely, but I am afraid that I would be another who would not use them, and (given my housekeeping tendencies) they would soon be invisible under a thick blanket of dust. And that would be sad.

Alison

I heep my pc from swaps or just gifts on a shelf.
Thats where my pretties are, up there safe from my kitty...for now