Snooze2978

When I was working on my 1st bargello I also thought I needed to get some sort of pins to keeps the rows in order. Didn't care for the price I found for the flower head pins so made my own using alphabet beads with holes in them and my yellow headed straight pins. I slipped a bead onto each pin and let some Elmer's glue slip down into each hole and stuck them to the bottom of my ironing board to dry. I can make a dozen sets of A-Z from one bag of the beads and a box of my yellow headed pins. I've given a couple sets out to others. This way was much cheaper for me and if the bead comes off down the road, I just add a dab of Elmer's Glue and its fixed again.

Boston1954

My sister gave me some plastic squares that have come in very handy. I love them. Kind of like the little bread ties that soccertxi mentioned.

Kitsie

saw them in the Nancy's Notion magazine that just came yesterday and thought they seemed like a good idea.
Here's a link:

http://www.nancysnotions.com/product...mbered+pins.do

Prism99

Some great ideas here! I was going to order the blue Clover flower heads but thought about how I like to use a hot iron and became concerned about melting the heads. I have been pinning post-its to the blocks with glass head pins, but they can get in the way when ironing, can come loose, and on occasion have stuck me. I use blue painter's tape all the time as my thread catcher, so I decided to test it out on a scrap of fabric by using my very hot iron on it for quite awhile. It peeled off fine with no residue! So I think that is what I am going to use. Will tear off pieces and mark them with a Sharpie. When I am finished, I might try storing them on the shiny side of freezer paper to see if they will "stick around" for awhile () so I don't have to re-make them for every quilt. Thanks, everyone, for the great ideas!

Tartan, I like your idea the best but I found out the hard way I cannot keep my design wall in my sewing room. We have 5 cats, all of whom seem to consider it a fantastic cat toy. I had cats trying to climb to the top of it, cats working vigorously at shredding the batting on it, and cats sharpening their claws on it. I ended up storing it in another room which always has the door closed to keep cats out. (sigh)

Tiggersmom

Beth this is genius. And so inexpensive.

Jingle

On the smaller donation quilts I have been making I mark row number with washable crayola markers. I then pin each block to the one next to it. Markers always wash out.

On double/queen size I cut small squares of paper and number each one. 1-1,1-2, 1-3 and so on. I pin them with small safety pins. I save the pieces so I don't have to do it much.

lindaschipper

I use the alphabet and number beads and put them on safety pins. Straight pins can be lost too easily for some of us. I keep them in a small round metal tin I found at a thrift store. So handy to use!

patinpoconos

I do the same, mark the flower pins with marker

idoqlts

For those who use some form of straight pins: I bought a small pack of tiny plastic earring backs (the ones that go on the wires) and slip them onto the points. The pins don't fall off, and I don't get stabbed.

sewnclog

I have the yellow head ones and I numbered them myself to keep rows in order. Works great.