How do you tame your straight pins?
#21
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Location: northern minnesota
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I keep my everyday pins (the long ones with the yellow round heads) in two pin cushions....I don't pin a lot when stitching except for long seams where I generally pin every foot or so or at the intersection of seams....I mainly use my pins for pining the row and position number (eg. row 1, column A , row 1 column B ect) onto the blocks in the upper left hand corner. I don't have a design wall, use my queen bed so doing this let's me keep everything in order. I also have a separate pin supply I keep in a magnetic dish downstairs by the longarm...Use these for loading the quilt sandwich. I like the magnetic dish as it sticks to my bars as they are steel. I have found however, that over time, the pins have also become magnetized and sometimes stick together which is annoying. I also have little plastic boxes of pins that I use for things like holding appliques in place. these special pins stay in their boxes until needed....
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Michigan
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Each type of pin has a different purpose. I have a different (5) pin cushion for each type of pin. Sometimes I need to just sort them out because when I am sewing I don't hop up to retrieve the 'correct' pin cushion, I just use what is handy.
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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The best pins are stainless steel. You can tell the difference because they will not stick to the magnetic bowls or cushions. I like the SS ones because they are strong, super sharp, and won't rust. I use them for my design wall. I have a pincushion stuck to the wall with velcro and keep the pins right on the wall.
#25
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Location: Oregon City, OR
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The best pins are stainless steel. You can tell the difference because they will not stick to the magnetic bowls or cushions. I like the SS ones because they are strong, super sharp, and won't rust. I use them for my design wall. I have a pincushion stuck to the wall with velcro and keep the pins right on the wall.
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Ridgefield WA
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I made a little holder from a baby food jar lid and it sits right on my machine below the lip gloss holder for my ripper and tweezers! No searching around at all!
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#27
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Houston TX
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My pin cushion is made of 6 5" squares that have been sewn into 6 triangles that I have stuffed with Polysuffing - firmly. I sewed the points together top and bottom so it is a "Star" that will not tip or roll. (the stuffing areas that are handsewn closed are on the inside.) In each of the triangles I have different pins, one is reserved for safety pins, with a threader hanging on one, sewing needles cross-wise at the bottomof the triangle, etc. I put a ring (the kind you use for curtain rods that you can clip on) and I can pick it up easily, I even picked it up with my extending magnet once when it was on the other side of the table and I needed it, by putting the magnet into the ring and lifting it to me. Love this pincushion. My mother-in-law made me the first one in the 70's out of the Polyester we made pantsuits out of! and I still use it. She put a yarn pom-pom on the top.
#28
I use a few of these storage solutions, they come in several sizes, and the tops open individually:
https://www.michaels.com/craftmates-.../10442311.html
https://www.michaels.com/craftmates-.../10442311.html
#29
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Missouri
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T-pins are kept in boxes, one to the back of my quilting frame and one to the front of the frame. (longarm setup). Then I keep my long, round head quilting pins in a box next to my featherweight. My pincushions are used for hand quilting needles and short straight pins.
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