Luckily I only had this happen once. What I did was locate the nearest seam and slit a few threads to open it. Cut only the absolutely required stippling stitches between the pin & the seam and wiggle it out through the opening. Then you only have to "touch up" with a little quilting & I just topstitched the seam I had opened, though you could handsew it for a nicer look.

I would stipple right up to your "flap" then straight stitch on the border edge along the flap. Quilting down the flap would take away from the "3-D" lok that these flaps produce.

this is what I did too...the little ball will roam around that quilt forever :thumbup:

This is my idea too. I have done it and it works!!! But when you use the hammer, put some batting between the fabric and the hammer head.

Breaking the top off and leaving the ball inside is a good suggestion too!

OMG, I thought I was the only one who did that. I had just finished my first quilt - it was for a baby boy. I gave hand quilting a try, and about half-way through, I felt this little round ball. It was a pin between the batting and the top. I tried working with the head, moving it around, and tried to get it back through the top. I was finally successful but it did make a little hole. I was so flustered, but I just put some liquid stitch around it, and gave it to her anyway.

I had the same thing happen twice to me, not on a stippled quilt but both finished. The first one was a needle not a pin but eh second was a pin. I was giving to my DD and future SIL at their wedding shower and my DSI was holding it up for everyone to see and he is the one who found the needle, that came out easy but the pin had to be worked out with needle nose pliers.

Not sure how to remove the pin, however.....If you do have to cut the backing fabric to remove the pin.....

you could mend the hole and place a "quilt label" on that location. Just a thought.

Lately I have used the spray basting product. I really like it - no pins!! It works really well on baby or lap sized quilts. It stays while you quilt and washes out. FYI for the future.

I made a queen size logcabin quilt for my daughter with
1 1/2 inch strips. She found something hard in between and couldn't figure out what it was. Once I felt it, I knew what it was because I quilted it on my longarm at home.
It was the sheath to my Ghinger scissors! Why I didn't stitch over it is beyond me.
The only way to get it out is to cut the fabric open and top stitch it back up like a surgeon.
Sorry to hear about your pin...hope you get it out.
Nancy

I like that hammer idea. Ticked off at yourself and you get to take out your frustration while solving the problem!!