{"id":2034,"date":"2013-05-29T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:21:43","slug":"safety-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/safety-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been quilting a twin-sized quilt at my sewing machine.\u00a0 It’s a pretty easy process, thanks to having\u00a0 flattened the quilt sandwich beforehand.\u00a0 I laid out the backing, face down, on the table in my studio and made sure there were no wrinkles or bubbles in the fabric.\u00a0 Then, I laid the batting over the backing and repeated the process.\u00a0 Finally, I set the top, face up, over the other layers and secured all three to my table.\u00a0 Then I used\u00a0 safety pins to pin through all three layers.\u00a0 I’m using cotton batting, so I need to pin fairly close together.<\/p>\n

I have three types of pins: one-inch straight sided safety pins, one and three-eights inch straight-sided safety pins, and bent one-inch safety pins.\u00a0 I know, that was tough to read.\u00a0 Just look at the picture, and you’ll, well, get the picture:<\/p>\n

\"Safety<\/a><\/p>\n

I have no idea how many pins I used on the 60 x 75 inch quilt, but I can tell you that\u00a0 the one-inch straight-sided pins are killers.\u00a0 They are so hard to close that they drilled a dent into my index finger nail.\u00a0 If I keep these pins, and that’s a BIG IF, I’ll have to get one of those spoons you can use to help close the pin.\u00a0 My fingers hurt all weekend.<\/p>\n

I shifted the longer pins, which I thought I would like the most.\u00a0 They are much easier to use, but it seems that the point can dull, and I don’t like to leave huge holes in my quilts.<\/p>\n

The last pins I used turned out the be the best.\u00a0 The bent one-inch pins are easiest to open and close, and leave a smaller hole than the bigger pins.\u00a0 I need to put these on my wish list.\u00a0 If I’m going to continue to do quilts larger than 45″ x 60″ I’ll need more.\u00a0 Anything, to save my fingers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been quilting a twin-sized quilt at my sewing machine.\u00a0 It’s a pretty easy process, thanks to having\u00a0 flattened the quilt sandwich beforehand.\u00a0 I laid out the backing, face down, on the table in my studio and made sure … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}