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I use pins for my design wall. I seldom use them when sewing. I use Wonder Clips the most. I have more Wonder Clips then pins. I have a big shoe box bin full of the clips.
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I have some in pin cushions, some in boxes, and quite a few on the floor. I try to keep them separated by type, but they get mixed up and I have to straighten them out periodically. A magnet on a pole helps pick up the ones on the floor.
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My pins are all thrown into a small bowl, I like looking at pin cushions, absolutely hate using them, much prefer my bowl. Also absolutely hate the clips also, tried them, gave them to a buddy and she gave them to someone else.
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I only use large pins with large round heads. My spirit is willing to use smaller ones, but my hands are not. There are 6+ pincushions around the sewing area (my whole house), each full of pins. And I put a quilted "bigger than a table placemat" placemat under my sewing machine, so that is also full of pins. And very convenient.
We do what we have to do, right? |
I have the yellow flower head ones on two magnetic pin holders - one at my machine, one on the cutting table. I refill/relocate the pins as needed. Also have one magnetic pin holder with the long glass head pins that I like for piecing as they don't distort the fabric so much. Wish I knew the brand of those as they are near perfect and are getting old and bend very easily. On the search for more now.
But like Onebyone, I use wonder clips 90% of the time for everything. As a side note.....my 9 year old OCD granddaughter sat one day and arranged all the pins on the magnetic holders with the heads all going in the same direction. I didn't know she had done it until after she had gone home. I can't wait until she comes back and does it again for me. I will request it this time, and possibly pay her somehow. It was great and lasted only a short time until they were a jumbled mess again. |
Oh no, now I have to staighten my straight pins. I have one magnetic holder next to the design wall and pin cushions at the sewing machine. They seem to migrate to the sewing mahcine.
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I keep my flower head pins - aligned - on a magnetic pincushion for quilting. Right now my DGD has over half of them with "her" machine - I may have to arm-wrestle her to get them back...
I also have a box of long thin pins for sewing and a box of regular pins for my 4-Hers to use. And I have a push-type container that I used to use with the fine pins when I did mostly sewing. If I ever go back to doing a lot of sewing I will use it again. It nicely pops one pin at a time - just have to make sure the heads are "up" when I put pins back. I think that's where I get the having the heads aligned on the magnetic one come from. And when I'm in "work" mode I have a magnetic dish to catch pins and needles and sewing machine feet, paper clips, tacks.... |
A while ago I switched over to using nothing but very fine glass head pins and then bought a Zirkel (?). It's one of the best things I've done for my sanity. All my cats think that a pin cushion is a toy. One cat would pluck the pins from the cushion and then drop them on the table. I lived in constant fear and got tired of needing a ladder to retrieve my pins.
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Originally Posted by cathyvv
(Post 8309709)
I only use large pins with large round heads. My spirit is willing to use smaller ones, but my hands are not. There are 6+ pincushions around the sewing area (my whole house), each full of pins. And I put a quilted "bigger than a table placemat" placemat under my sewing machine, so that is also full of pins. And very convenient.
We do what we have to do, right? |
I've used an old Altoids box for years. I only buy the straight pins with the yellow bead on top. Any that I've accumulated by other sources are in a separate Altoid box and I use them when I fold up my fabrics on comic book boards. I've even made 8 sets of alphabet pins using baby bracelet beads and keep them in another separate box. Once the pin gets bent, it gets tossed in the trash. I have magnetic bowls at each end of my quilt frame holding these yellow beaded pins also. I keep 1 Altoid box at my sewing machine, 1 on the cutting table. Once 1 gets full I switch them out until they get full.
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