Susan's brilliant idea
 

My friend Susan, a master quilter just sent me this message: "I took the cork from a bottle of wine, cut it into 3/16" slices (approximately), then cut the slices into 4 pieces. I no longer have to use safety pins to baste a quilt, I use these straight pins and push the cork pieces into the ends of them. These stay put and at times you can quilt right over them, but if you can't, you pull the head of the pin and they pop right off. The fake corks work best, although the natural corks also work. You can baste a quilt saving 1/3 of the time it would usually take, and certainly much easier to remove while quilting. This is a GREAT invention. Cheap too. Susan" I think it's brilliant!

Sounds like it would also require indulging in a large quantity of wine to do a king sized quilt. Lol. Thanks for the idea.

thanks for sharing the tip

I guess drinking the wine helps a bit too! Good idea and much cheaper than Pinmoors. I just might give it a try.

thats a good idea - I saw someone the other day use an eraser cut into pieces and use in the same way

Have you tried Pinmoors? They are made for this purpose. Before Pinmoors I tried anything that would stick on a pin.

I have pinmoors and hate them. They make a lap size quilt SO heavy and they catch on everything. I can't even imagine it on a bigger one.

That is a fantastic idea - thanks for sharing!!

When sandwiching a quilt, I just use Large safety pins. I once left a straight pin in a quilt for DGS. Not a good idea. I now make sure they are all out. I was able to quilt around it, it had to be cut out.

I have purchased the pinmoors, but haven't used them yet. For those of us who don't imbibe, you can buy sheets of cork at hobby stores (Hobby Lobby, Michaels, JoAnn's). The sheets can be cut with a rotary cutter.