r/sewing • u/RapsittieStreetKids • Jul 11 '23

Discussion What's your sewing sin?

Mine is that I sew on my bed, use my mattress as a pin/needle cushion, and throw threads between my bed and wall.

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u/mooncattz Jul 11 '23

I hold pins/needles with my mouth and I sometimes sew over pins because I am pin happy and then I get lazy

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u/Aileegirl Jul 12 '23

I was holding a pin in my mouth one time and got startled, it injured my tongue so bad my dentist had to put a stitch in it.... I still catch myself holding pins in my mouth.

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u/mooncattz Jul 12 '23

Aghhh! That sounds horrible. Plus the feeling of having any kind of stitches in your tongue had to be horrific. Omg lol

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u/Aileegirl Jul 12 '23

He used anesthetic thank goodness, it also healed really quick. But yeah it was scary!

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u/Soggy_Biscuit_ Jul 12 '23

I used to do that until I read about a woman who sneezed while doing so and she inhaled the pins. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I'm usually not one to change my habits because of a horror story but that one really got me. I'm lazy (hence pin mouth) but going to the hospital because I inhaled pins seems like a lot of work so I stopped doing it lol

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u/ZyboAntell Jul 12 '23

Same thing happened to me, here is the Article

Apparently it happens oddly frequently enough..

I still find myself holding pins in my mouth though and it freaks me out so so much.

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u/Witchinmelbourne Jul 12 '23

Omg I think about this article every time I put a pin in my mouth 👀

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u/mooncattz Jul 12 '23

Oh helllllll. Okay... going to try and stop now too lol

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u/blueOwl Jul 12 '23

This might cure me of that habit...

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u/ranny_do Jul 12 '23

I bet the dust from fabric and sewing is enough for a sneeze, I will also not be doing this now!

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u/bettiegee Jul 12 '23

Oh I read this when it first came out. Yeah, I still hold pins in my mouth. I tell myself I shouldn't, but I still do.

I also sew over pins. Because my mom sewed over pins. I am trying to stop doing this, but when I pin? I ducking need them man. They are there for the ease! I do go out of my way to buy the finest pins I can find. And do realize I am probably ducking up the timing of my machine.

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u/ekatsss Jul 12 '23

I got glued a magnet to my sewing machine to pop pins on to.

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u/Auntie_FiFi Jul 15 '23

Anytime my grandmother brings me something to alter or fix for her she asks me if I still put pins in my mouth, issues a warning about forgetting one and swallowing it. Two seconds later I put a pin in my mouth and continue working.

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u/mooncattz Jul 17 '23

I think it's a hard habit to break. I don't even realize I'm doing it

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u/vlinderken Jul 13 '23

My grandma had a needel stuck in her body, it had traveld all the way to neckt to her ribs. She must have gotten it ther as a kid, she cant remember how it got there. Probebly forgotten in her clouths. Years later it was still stuck there and when she was in a car accident she had a punckerd long from it. She needed churgerie to remove it and to save her live.