I would always make the mistake of leaving my pins everywhere........My father always complained that I was always dropping pins and someone would step on them (I used to sew on the kitchen table)....... He'd pick up a pin, peer at me and tell me off in his broad foreign accent. Being young I never took much notice and kept on dropping pins.......I was always engrossed in my latest project. If only I had a magnet to pick up my pins back then......But the best part was my father let me take the sewing machine with me when I married and then it became me who hemmed his overalls for him.......
My big blue magnet I give to the button thief and he runs around and picking up my pins off the floor.......The yellow magnetic pin holder I keep by the sewing machine and if I drop a tin of pins I just magnet them all up!
I found a good blog site for making your own magnetic pin holders.......Why didn't I think of that? Such a good idea and good way to use up old dishes, etc. Click here.
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| I've had the magnetic pin holder for years......... |
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| My first sewing machine Bernina 730 Record...... A very heavy sturdy sewing machine that my father liked to over oil.....I ended up with oil spots all over my sewing....... |
Heh gets very grumpy because I not only drop pin in the carpet in most rooms I also drop in hid dressing grown when mine is on the wash. I have varios magnet pin holder just in case now... How nice your dad had a sewing machine... We are a bunch of tall people in my house so making hems weren't common and I'm the only granddaughter of 26 cousins that sew.
ReplyDeletePins cause all sorts of problems :) Yes it was great he had a sewing machine because my mother never sewed at all. I am the only one that sews in my family here. That's amazing 26 cousins and you are the only one that sews.....you must be very proud that you have that skill.
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