Learn something new every day

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

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Joy Beeson
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Well I hope the rest of your day was excellent! Thanks for the story, it gave me an idea! I think I am going to get some of that magnetic stripping (one side sticky) and put it down on the edge of my sewing tables (just not the treadle) so that I stop stepping on my pins. We will see how long that lasts... I tried something similar with a bag hanging off the edge for thread snips. They still ended up all over the place.

Michelle

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Michelle Giordano

On the wall over my machine i have one of those Boxes with tiny see through Drawers used for Nails and screws in Garages , i just take the tiny drawer of pins out and it`s next to me ,,, mirjam

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mirjam

I meant to add that the previous week, I learned that Big R (a big-box chain store) sells really-fat fat quarters (22" square) for ninety-nine cents each.

Today I'm washing a hunter-orange bandana that I intend to use for the

3's in an alphabet book I started for the grand-daughter of a radio ham last Christmas season. (If I can finish it this year, she's still young enough.)

The fabric is cheap and thin, but one can pass it off as "fine". I soak the bandanas in soapy water overnight before washing, but so far they haven't bled much.

I've picked the hem out of a red-white-and-blue bandana; if I wake up today (I ate chocolate in the evening yesterday, and didn't sleep well), I can make a do-rag for DH while waiting on the washer.

On the other hand, I've opened "Crystallize" on the other computer.

Joy Beeson

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Joy Beeson

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