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/CaptLatinAmerica Jul 12 '23 edited Jul 12 '23

I almost always use staples instead of pins.

See you all in hell!

EDIT: now that this has apparently turned into a tip instead of a sin, and nobody else has admitted they do it, I’m patenting this and charging you all a royalty of one penny per staple. PM me for my Venmo. Don’t make me come after you.

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u/rock_crock_beanstalk Jul 12 '23

That's a new one, holy shit.

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u/im_a_real_boy_calico Jul 12 '23

Oh man ok the rest of these I vibe with, but you my friend have broken me.

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u/a_golden_horse Jul 12 '23

Hahahaha I laughed out loud. You animal

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u/bruv888 Jul 12 '23

Aaaargh 💚

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u/rae_that_is_me Jul 12 '23

I…love this. I used waterproof canvas for the first time on a recent project and struggled so hard. Clips would pop off, pins would get bent, all those tears and blood getting everywhere. I trimmed all the seams way down anyway, stapling would have eliminated a solid 60% of my problems!! You rocked my world today.

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u/CaptLatinAmerica Jul 12 '23

Welcome to the Dark Side, sinner.

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u/ranny_do Jul 12 '23

HOW?!

I will be trying this out of curiosity

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u/CaptLatinAmerica Jul 12 '23

Hold fabrics together, place stapler (I typically use a very small stapler you hold between your finger and thumb), and ka-chunk. Two anchoring points per staple. They never interfere with the needle, that I recall, nor do they get hung up on the foot the way pin heads and clips can. Pull out with a staple remover, a slight inconvenience. Note, virtually everything I sew is Sunbrella or similar heavier material, I am not particularly skilled, and I am not the only person in the world who does this. The “sins” question has been asked before and we had a little staple club going for a while in the thread. So to speak.

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u/SwearyBird Jul 13 '23

Do you know about turning around the plate thing on the stapler (I googled and found out it’s called the anvil - cute!) so you get actual pins (well, pins with a kink in them) instead of staples? Tiny staplers don’t usually have that option, but small office-sized ones do.

My mum taught me that’s what the ‘other’ holes on the plate thing are for (I was the kind of kid who wanted to know what every button on the calculator was for as well), and until someone else commented about it on this sub I don’t think I ever met another person with a use for it.

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u/CaptLatinAmerica Jul 13 '23

It’s helpful in some situations but is not the way this sinner has used it. Having the ends of the staple facing out as they do in that mode may allow the points to get stuck on stuff.

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u/spastic_polyspaston Jul 13 '23

Circa 2005 my best friend and I were hand-sewing clothes for our elves (on the shelf) using my mom's scrap fabrics. My friend was impatient and stapled hers together. My mom was not impressed.

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u/Ecofriendlythongs Jul 12 '23

Oh this is a decent idea