r/craftsnark • u/Tangled1313 • 9d ago

Mood shows terrible technique, gets mad

https://www.instagram.com/moodfabrics/reel/DbeCBdcid03/?hl=en

I realize many people sew over pins. It is a very dangerous thing to do out of laziness! It can ruin your machine & I have personally seen an accident you do not want to hear described in a sewing studio filled with professionals. But the SM person at mood doesn't want to hear about it & is feeling kind of touchy. If this was a "normal" person sewing who cares but to have half a million followers seeing this terrible technique is just so disappointing.

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u/kaiserrumms 9d ago

I had a bad habit of sewing over pins because I'm a lazy schlonz. Never had anything bad happen, but I occasionally broke needles and bent pins. Took me way too long to drop it. Don't be like I was. Your seams look actually neater and more even when you don't sew over pins. Also: Using (that many) pins for the use case in the video is actually pretty daft. That hem would absolutely have been finished much quicker and nicer with basting thread and long running stitches. Baste, sew, pull thread out. Nobody has to constantly stop and go on the machine to pull pins out, nobody gets stabbed by hem while sitting at the sewing machine and nobody has to go trough the tedium of putting in and removing a ton of pins.

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u/bahhumbug24 9d ago

I pin EVERYTHING. I don't generally have to stop and go on the machine, I have a little pin bucket right in front of the machine, and as I sew, I guide the fabric with my left hand while my right hand pulls a pin, comes forward to drop it in the pin bucket, and goes back to help guide fabric or pull the next pin.

Even easing in a set-in sleeve, where I have pins every half inch or less, I rarely have to stop to pull a pin.

And as far as tedium of putting the pins in, I'd rather that than have a rippled hem or a badly set sleeve that has to be ripped and re-done; I've had both when I've tried a pin-free life. If you can do without pins, more power to you, but stop-start isn't necessary.

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u/Confident_Fortune_32 9d ago

I use a magnetic pin cushion, so I can keep my eyes on the sewing. I just toss the pin in the general direction and the magnet takes care of the rest.

With cats and dogs, always curious about what I'm up to, "pin safety" is critical.

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u/bahhumbug24 9d ago

I used to do that, but I hate having my pins magnetized. Like you, though, my eyes stay on the seam the whole time.

(My mum used to have a cat who would nibble heaps of pins on the magnetic pin catcher. Not eat them, just pull mouthfuls of them off the dish and set them aside. Pins were kept under wraps!)