I don't, I'm more afraid a flying needle point will put my eye out even tho I wear glasses!

I buy the speical pins from the LQS that you can sew over or iron over; once in a while if I go too fast a needle with break. But chances are I needed to change that needle anyhow, after sewing with it that much.

Smaller areas pinned, I will slow down and carefully go over the group of pins.

All day, every day. Yes, I've broken a few needles over the years but the stability I feel is provided by having the pins in the piece until I have sewn it far outweighs a few broken needles. I guess I've been lucky that there's been no machine damage regardless of machine used.

Not if I can avoid them. I don't want to take chances breaking a needle or messing up timing on my machine.

Cheers, K

Me too. That doesn't mean I haven't when getting the seam perfect is critical. My machine almost always hits them and bends the pins.

I have sewn over one, had it shear off the needle and the piece missed my eye by half an inch. Never again.

I do the same - I hate the sound of a needle hitting pins

i try not to. it's too expensive to get the timing readjusted in case hitting the pins goes wrong.

There are flat head pins that can carefully be sewn over. The round tipped ones are a no-no. The round tipped ones come in different sizes of heads. the bigger the ball the worse they are. Even when I use the flat head pins, some are flowers some are buttons, I try to remove them as I get to them.

Sometimes. But If I do, I go much slower over the pin. I usually pull them first. I have some really fine pins that almost bend too easily, if I do hit them with my machine needle, the needle doesn't break.