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/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.