Never again
#41
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
After finding 27 needles and 16 straight pins in an old pincushion, I have a different place for my needles. Now if I want to put a needle into a pincushion, I put it in at the side in such a say that if it gets pushed way in, it will come out the other side. Works slick.
A few weeks ago, I was sewing something for my daughter and started playing with her knit pincushion. (It is strips of garter stitch, sewn into a circle, folded in half the long way, and tucked into ever larger circles. The first strip is only about 1 inch long, and four or five circles make a pincushion of 8 or 10 layers on each side and is a really cute pincushion.) She was surprised at the number of pins I found in there. Those circles can be taken apart easily and put back together again. The circles are not sewn together.
A few weeks ago, I was sewing something for my daughter and started playing with her knit pincushion. (It is strips of garter stitch, sewn into a circle, folded in half the long way, and tucked into ever larger circles. The first strip is only about 1 inch long, and four or five circles make a pincushion of 8 or 10 layers on each side and is a really cute pincushion.) She was surprised at the number of pins I found in there. Those circles can be taken apart easily and put back together again. The circles are not sewn together.
#45
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,664
I am sure my pincushions are filled with needles. Many times I find them accidentally when trying to pull out a straight pin. At first I thought it was just my hand made pincushions that were the problem then I discovered my tomato ones also like to play hide and seek.
#46
I was teaching a young friend to sew this summer. I brought out my pin cushion and she proceeded to push all the pins all the way in...and the needles too! I took it away from her and brought out a dish of pins. She might get poked now and then, but I don't lose my needles! I could not get her to understand how much trouble it is to have them pushed all the way in.
#49
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
Been there, done that more times than I care to count. I keep forgetting that the thread can come off the needle, then it's look for the needle in the pin cushion. I think I need to make a needle case too, as I'm always misplacing my needles. You're not alone.
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