Wow, do I have a lot of pins!
Does anyone else have that plan when
they go into a quilt store and feel obligated to buy,
you always leave with a little something?
Well my little something is pins.
Also sewing machine needles but
we'll leave those for another day.
So here are most of them !
I like to use T pins to hold up
partial works and patterns on my cork board.
These are heat proof pins. Long, which is good,
but the round top makes the
iron move when you press them, so not my favorite.
I do love novelty sewing pins.
They seem to get misplaced,
damaged or lost easily tho.
There are spool shapes, chicks and
even button as well as the flower headed ones.
Way too many traditional yellow headed quilting pins.
Longer than a normal pin, not heat resitant,
but easy to see and quite strong.
These were one of the first items I bought for quilting!
I do like the flower headed ones,
but I think I am overstocked on them.
Some are still in the box!
There are two boxes of these pins. They are silk pins.
Thinner than the yellow headed pins but shorter.
These may go in the garage sale box.
These colorful pins are great mutlipurpose pins for
for hanging things up and pinning. They are pretty and
I do use some on the design wall.
These are my current favourite. Heatproof and
flatheaded they allow for easy pressing and
doesn't make the iron move.
They are long enough that I can pin things easily.
Not as long as a yellow-headed pins though.
These flathead flower pins, were used as row markers,
until I was gifted these below.
They work great but the shape is a little awkward.
The numbers on the pins wear off very quickly.
As you can see, I've taken the writing
over the numbers with a Sharpie.
This pin cushion keeps all the pins
used on the design wall close at hand.
Yes, I fell victim to the things at the counter,
and bought the star pins. I won the blue crystally pins,
bought the Unicorn pins, found the corsage pins in the middle and then just supplemented with yellow-headed pins
and the pink flower headed pins.
Oddly enough, the unicorn pins are not magnetic so
are only good for stick pincushion.
After all that, I will try to thin out the amount of
pins sticking around the sewing room.
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