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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-28-2006, 05:24 PM (1 of 8)
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You know those plastic things with a magnet inside that you put pins on? I had one that broke after many years of dropping, bouncing, being kicked and rolling around the floor. There are two magnets in there. I put one in each of two Altoids tins and put one on the cutting table and one by the sewing machine. When the one by the machine is full of pins I switch them around. It's a good system. I've done it for years. Today I took the full one off the table to lay fabric out. I put it on the chest near the table. And I sat on it. I don't recommend it. Dorothy |
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From: icetbear
Date: 07-28-2006, 05:33 PM (2 of 8)
Ouch!!!  Dorothy. Hope your backside has recovered  You have a good system though. Take care.NanaBear 
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User: icetbear
Member since: 09-04-2004 Total posts: 66 |
From: Patty22
Date: 07-28-2006, 05:56 PM (3 of 8)
Oh my..........usually in our house we have someone kiss our boo boo's to feel better. 
Patty
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User: Patty22
Member since: 03-29-2006 Total posts: 1194 |
From: Roy
Date: 07-28-2006, 09:49 PM (4 of 8)
A pin-tushin 
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User: Roy
Member since: 04-28-2006 Total posts: 25 |
From: Mom of Six
Date: 07-28-2006, 10:29 PM (5 of 8)
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That's a good one Roy! I have my pins in a clay dish my husband made in high school. I know there are better ways to store them that would make them easier to use but I can't get myself to change it. I have been using it for about 27 yrs. & have only spilled them a couple of times. I also have a Miracle Whip jar of pins that my mother collected when she worked in a dept store cleaning dressing rooms. The pins wouldn't vacumn so she picked them up & stuck them into a tissue in her pocket & brought them home. She collected over 2 quarts in the 18 yrs she worked there. I don't use them but they sit in my window to remind me of my mother. Barb
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User: Mom of Six
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From: VenusElaine
Date: 07-29-2006, 12:19 AM (6 of 8)
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It's always nice to have a reminder. My mother's sewing reminder is a very old fruitcake tin with roses on the top. It has a little of this and that. Pieces of trim from different things I remember her sewing, and some very special buttons. When I was four or five, I needed a coat. I remember my mother had one of red corduroy. She took it all apart, recut the pieces, and sewed a coat for me. When I inherited the tin, the self-covered buttons of red were in it. The coat is long gone, but she cut the buttons off and saved them. About the pins, once I came home from work and my ex-husband told me he had spilled my pins, but was extremely cocky about the fact that he had gotten on the floor and picked up every one. I took my pin magnet and swept every one of them onto the floor, then made one pass and they all jumped back on. I appreciated his effort, but had already begun to doubt his intelligence long before this. VenusElaine "Always put as much effort into your marriage as you do into your wedding."
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User: VenusElaine
Member since: 10-22-2005 Total posts: 126 |
From: stephi
Date: 07-31-2006, 08:35 AM (7 of 8)
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I was in a rush to get something done a while back and didnt reset my foot on my machine, Well I ended up breaking my needle. I searched every where for the sharp end that normally sticks to the thread (but didnt this time). My husband found it a week later with his big toe. Im not sure how he got it stuck straight up into his toe since he found it on hard wood floor but he did and he whined and whined about it. Men are such babies!
Stephi
"No body knows what it is that I do until I dont do it" "if you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten" |
User: stephi
Member since: 03-17-2006 Total posts: 361 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-31-2006, 11:02 AM (8 of 8)
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My dh complains all the time also about stepping on pins/needles with his bare feet in my sewing room. It's happened to him one time and now he states that it's all the time. I repeatedly tell him if he stays out of my sewing room he won't run the risk of picking up pins/needles with his bare feet. However, I try to be careful about keeping all the pins/needles picked up as my little "girl" likes to sleep in the doorway to my sewing room and I really would hate for her to pick up a pin or needle in her tummy or one of her feet. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
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