Onebyone

I have a pair of rag snips that are wonderful. I decided to buy a new pair to have on hand. The new pair is not the same. Less comfort grip on the handles, the spring is smaller, blades are not quiet the same and they didn't cut as smooth and easy. Cost more than double the price too. if i didn't have the older pair I wouldn't have known the difference.

cashs_mom

I'm not picky about my pins. Right now I'm using a mix of pins I bought years ago at Joann and some I bought in the last couple years at an estate sale a whole good sized plastic box for 50 cents. lol

dunster

I use the yellow-headed ones most of the time, but I also have some that are thinner, some with glass heads, some with flat flower heads. I use them all, but I try to keep them in separate pincushions or boxes so it's easier to pick up the ones I want.

I'm wondering, though, why the glass headed iron-safe ones are so popular. I can't remember a time when I needed to iron over or near a pin. (Or maybe I just forgot.)

quiltingcotton

I used the yellow ball headed quilting pins for years, and then on a whim, decided to go with the the flat pins that have hearts on them when the craze began with the flat heads. I used the flat headed pins for a bit, but found that many had burrs on them that would catch threads as they went through the fabric or just weren't sharp (no point put on them when made). They also bent so easily. I ended up donating what was left of the flat headed pins and pulled out my old yellow ball headed quilting pins and went back only using them..

My yellow ball headed quilting pins are almost two inches long. When I purchased them, way back when, you could get them in a shorter length as well, but I like the long ones. I also like that they are stronger and don't bend so easily like the flat headed pins did. I keep nine weighted emery sand pin cushions on my tables (3 on each table). My sewing table, cutting table, and ironing table, so that I don't have to keep moving the pin cushion as I move along the quilt. With the three on each table, they are all within hand reach to use a pins or return pins back to them.

eparys

My go to is Clover 2509 - they are 2.4" long, very thin/fine, glass head and very sharp, I usually order them from Amazon in a three pack because they are hard fro me to find in the stores around here.

cashs_mom

Hmmm . . . I can't remember having to iron over a pin either. Maybe I did that when I was making garments? I can't think why as I don't press until things are sewn.

Iceblossom

I don't often press over pins but there are times when I will, like trying to get warped things together nicely, some pins and some steam go a long way to de-wonky stuff (or wonky it up if you didn't pin)

But I'm typically taking my pins off at the ironing board and they do get next to the iron or dragged across.

quiltedsunshine

I think Clover and Dritz were bought and are now under the name of Sewology. These are their "extra fine glass head pins" that are my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEkHht2oJsg

Flower Head pins are my second favorite. They're thicker and longer than the extra-fine glass head pins, but thinner that the big yellow "quilting pins."

magicmoonmusings

Do you have a source for this? From googling, neither have been bought out.

- Clover is still a privately owned Japanese brand
- Dritz was acquired by German brand Prym back in 1988
- Sewology is Hobby Lobby's house brand and has nothing to do with Clover or Dritz

quiltedsunshine

Alzheimer's is setting in. I could have sworn my Checker sales rep told me that. I know I bought Sewology notions at JoAnn's before they announced the closure. So that has me confused as well.

Sorry for dragging people into my confusion.