And yesterday's was:
When you open a new box of IBC glass-headed pins, don't think you can shake a few onto your Grabbit and close the lid on the rest. (I shoulda *picked* them out, carefully.)
And don't think you can pull out the ones that are standing up: each pin you pull out stands up two more.
I ended up with half the pins piled up on my pincushion, and the box is still full -- those pins were really packed in there!
Groan. The pile is deep enough to make it hard to pick off one -- and I'm about to sew the closely-pinned hems that started all this. Maybe I can store a bunch of them on one of the industrial magnets on the refrigerator. Ah, yes! I can bring it in here and stick it to the printer stand.
So I did, and it not only stores the surplus pins, it gets three #3 steel hooks and the C-hook from my old treadle belt off the Grabbit. And the magnetic lines are radial instead of piled-up parallel like the Grabbit, so I can stick a needle on it when I want to put one down. (Put a needle on the Grabbit, and finding it again would be easier if you'd dropped it into a haystack.)
Joy Beeson