We’ve been spending a lot of time doing yard work so I have neglected stitching and blogging. Gotta go for it while the sun shines, right?
Anyway, today it’s raining, so I’ve been catching up on random April patches. I pondered whether to put all of them into one post, but decided to keep it simple and just post one at a time.
So, first up is one of my most valuable sewing tools (after needles): the humble safety pin.
Virtually all of my patches are made with a harem cloth backing to stabilize the stitches. Straight pins are painfully difficult to use, so I’ve become a fan of 1″ bent quilters’ safety pins to secure the harem cloth
I actually ran a marker along a pin to make the patch true to size …
and if the details are less than accurate, the silhouette is true enough.
One down, four to go.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
I love safety pins, I use them as a symbol for safety. So Original…ha.
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Safety pins save me from myself … but I have to confess, I still put needles in my mouth
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Yeah, I stopped that, broke the habit.
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So simple, so handy!
When I saw all of your posts in my email, I thought, Mmmm…are these all real?!! lol
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I’ve been pinning cloth from underneath … keeps the thread from catching when I stitch
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I had no idea such a thing existed! Very handy and I shall look at the haberdashery store next time I am there…
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they are new to me, too … they’re especially useful when one is pinning together layers for quilting, but equally useful for garden-variety pin jobs … my straight pins have been sent to storage
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LA – the things one learns – never knew there was such a handy thing as a specific quilters safety pin!!! B
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it’s always nice to find a good tool for under $5
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