JuliaDay Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I got a call fro a client tonight that her daughter found a pin in her quilt? I quiltted it this summer. Gee I gave directions on how I would take it out. I can't belive it is one of mine. Anyone else ever had a call like this? jmd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltingjoyful51 Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I had one show up a year after the quilt was done. They hide in the batting until you move just right. In my case it was a family member that received the quilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Oooo--I got shivers and a flashback with this one!! I lost a self-threading needle while quilting a baby quilt a hundred years ago. I literally massaged the quilt quarter-inch by quarter-inch in a grid pattern and enlisted my sister to repeat the process--trying to find it. While agonizing about the missing needle, and two days before scheduled pick-up, I was on my hands and knees on the floor with a flashlight and a magnet when I found the needle. I still have nightmares about this. Had I not found the needle, I would never have returned the quilt. How would that conversation have gone? The needle used to live on a magnet on my machine. No longer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Yup, this happened on a quilt that I did for a friend...she found it several months after I returned it to her. It was one of those pins with the yellow ball on top. Her husband managed to pull the head off the pin and pull the pin part out of the quilt. I double and triple check for pins whenever I roll a quilt now! Lynne Bowbeer Lynne's Red Boot Quiltery Ann Arbor, MI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltlover03 Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I received a call the other night from a client's husband who asked me if the "needle should point up or down". I couldn't figure out until he explained it, and then I felt pretty embarrassed. Now I am double checking every thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I recently had a customer who had pinned some of her seams down on the underside of the quilt top as I think she was going to press those seams again and then she forgot to take the pins out before she gave the top to me. I kept finding the pins as I was pressing the top before loading it. I had visions of throwing my timing completely out of wack by hitting one. I almost missed one but caught it as I was rolling to my last row. Not a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 Oh I am so extremely careful about anything being on the quilt at any time. Scissors, rulers, my pins... I am super duper cautious. I've never lost a pin (or found one later) in a quilt. however, I did recently find a straight pin in the seam allowance that my customer forgot to pull out. Glad I found that puppy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I got a call a few months ago asking if I used Flowerhead pins...well yes and I love them I replied. "Well how do you get them out from between the quilt layers ?" said my client. I hadn't even used pins on that quilt. I'm like Shana and take every effort to make sure I have nothing loose but I guess the batting must have picked it up from somewhere. All was good and I'm glad she found it before she sent it to her brother in New Zealand! That would have been an unexpected gift! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carolinequilts Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 It sounds like this occurs more frequently than we would expect! I'm going to be like Shana from now on and be extra careful when loading my quilt tops and advancing them! Hopefully I can avoid this type of a phone call! Thanks for the warnng.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 If I do use pins on my quilts it is the large long corsage pins....to hard to lose those suckers in a quilt. When I do use them it is just to pin the side temporarily because I have moved the quilt up and basting would be silly on 2 or 3 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoriasews Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 I got stuck with a pin in a quilt I made for me. After being stuck, I looked inch by inch and couldn't find it. A few months later (and I use this quilt almost every evening.) I got stuck again. Still, I couldn't find the pin. I asked my husband to look and he covered every inch and didn't find a pin. Another few months passed and I got stuck again. Finally, after searching again I found it and got it out. Those buggers can really hide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 hey, stucks happens *giggle* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francine Posted March 15, 2010 Report Share Posted March 15, 2010 :P:P:PDoodlebug you are a nut:P:P:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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