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#22
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Somewhere in Time
Posts: 2,697
I make it easy on myself -- I only purchase the white glass head pins. If I get others, I usually give them away. Some of the pins I am using are over 40 years old. I use a knitted pincushion and put all my needles in around the outside so I lose very few to a hungry pincushion monster.
#23
I made a little pincushion of felt, like a pillow about 1.5" x 2.5" - really small - sits in my sewing basket next to my chair. I did the "squeeze" test on it once and came up with FIFTY needles, about 30 small hand quilting and 20 larger ones!! At least they didn't wind up on the floor where DH is invariably the one to step on them!
#24
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
I have one of those magnetic holders for my straight pins and a magnetic case for my needles but how do they STILL end up on the floor all the time?? I always wear slippers in my house !!
#26
I read on one of the forums about a woman who had been quilting/sewing for years and using one of the big tomato pin cushions. She decided to cut it open and see how many needles she could find, and she said she found close to 100!
#27
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 226
recently dh was laying in front of the tv & asked "what is that on the carpet", seeing a line of what looked like sawdust I looked around and found a "tomato skin" wet & obviously chewed on. Our yorkie puppy had got hold of a pincushion and chewed it to bits. I picked up all the pins & over 50 old needles with a magnet out of the carpet. Later found more & a couple caught in the vacuum roll & hose. The pin cushion was old & I never used it for needles, they were all INSIDE . Puppy was ok luckily, don't know how she kept from swallowing one or get one in her mouth or gums.
#30
I put needles into my pincushion like I'm pinning fabric. Both end are exposed. I try to put them back in whatever pack they came from when I'm finished sewing.
I used to have a habit of using the arm of the lounge chair as a pin cushion. After leaning on it one day with my hand and finding 2 needles the painful way I was cured of that bad habit.
I used to have a habit of using the arm of the lounge chair as a pin cushion. After leaning on it one day with my hand and finding 2 needles the painful way I was cured of that bad habit.
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