Safety Pins storage
09-18-2011, 04:35 PM
#42
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: A Hop from Heaven, a Skip from Sanity and a Jump from the Good Life....
Posts: 6,665
Originally Posted by lfw045
Got this idea from my DSIL and it works beautifully. I take one safety pin and pile as many as I can on it and close it. I have did this to all my basting safety pins and it's great....no tangles and no mess!
09-18-2011, 04:37 PM
#43
Google Goddess
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central Indiana (USA)
Posts: 30,181
those are cool, thanks
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Uh Oh, sounds like your pins are naked! I buy these:http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponlin...lay.asp?i=1621 they fit bent ones too.
The don't get tangled left open! DGD pinned about a hundred on a tee shirt making a pattern with the colors for spirit day at school. She won most creative during spirit day. The sure make safety pins easier to use.
The don't get tangled left open! DGD pinned about a hundred on a tee shirt making a pattern with the colors for spirit day at school. She won most creative during spirit day. The sure make safety pins easier to use.
09-18-2011, 05:35 PM
#46
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: west virginia
Posts: 87
Interesting! Thanks!
Originally Posted by gmaybee
I just heard a tip to store them opened on a stitch holder that is used in knitting. It looks a little bit like a huge kilt pin. Run the stitch holder through the hole at the end of the safety pins. I will probably try that as soon as I get a stitch holder. Straight pins are in several different pin cushions placed at each machine and ironing board.
09-18-2011, 05:36 PM
#47
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: west virginia
Posts: 87
Great idea!
Originally Posted by lfw045
Got this idea from my DSIL and it works beautifully. I take one safety pin and pile as many as I can on it and close it. I have did this to all my basting safety pins and it's great....no tangles and no mess!
09-18-2011, 05:38 PM
#48
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: west virginia
Posts: 87
Great idea.
Originally Posted by quilter1430
Maybe if you got a large pin cushion for your safety pins to stick them into? I would think you'd want to stick them into something so they don't get all tangled.
09-18-2011, 05:45 PM
#49
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: west virginia
Posts: 87
Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions. That's what I love about this board. You get prompt responses and soooo many "different" ideas. Surely one of these ideas will work for me, I'm gonna try a few to see what I like best.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
craftybear
Links and Resources
28
06-21-2010 10:35 AM
