Those yellow quilter's pins?????
#12
I use them. They seem to work for me for piecing and pinning things together. I had to buy another pack of them for my current quilt (and those bent quilter's saftey pins) because I ran out trying to pin the borders down flat.
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Originally Posted by Izaquilter
If it's the flower head pins, they are great for pinning a pattern or whatever you need to cut around & still be able to use the acrylic rulers. They lay flat & your ruler doesn't teeter totter back & forth when you are trying to hold it down. As for ironing with them, no, they melt!
#15
This is how I use those yellow quilters pins. Rather than having the pin hang out of the edge, I put them alongside where the stitching line will go. Then I don't have to worry about running over them with the sewing machine and because they're long pins, they cover a good size area.
#18
I only use the yellow head pins for one thing, when I am down on the carpet layering the three parts prior to basting. They are great to hold all layers taught whilst I baste. I do not use them when actually sewing the quilt, I prefere to use ordinary dress makers pins foreverything else.
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#19
There is more than one size of the yellow head pins. I don't use the heavier ones, but I use the thin ones all the time. I also use very fine silk pins that I can even sew over when I don't want any shifting when sewing over seams.
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I used to use them all the time , till I started sewing on Batiks. they are too thick , and leave holes in the finely woven batik fabric. After having discovered really super fine pins it felt like I was driving nails into my fabrics.
I have them on a seperate magnet , and use them on my desing wall and pin in what will be the seam allowance.
I have them on a seperate magnet , and use them on my desing wall and pin in what will be the seam allowance.
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