Silly sewing habits

[Elennare]

I also color sort my pins.  And only use the ones with the colored heads, in contrasting colors to the fabric.  Pins and I don't get along too well, so I want to make it as hard as possible for them to hide.

I also have the odd habit of putting slightly bent pins, that I think I might eventually get around to straightening out to use again, in the green top part of my pin cushion.

[Dinobabe]

I separate the bent pins, too!  I use them for the heavy fabrics (that bent the pins in the first place ).

[Hoowil]

Seems (or seams) I'm one of many in that I can't sew with my shoes on, even if I'm not using the pedal (the pedal on my machine is removable, with a push button start/stop and three setting speed slider). I also can't sew with my glasses on. Aside from that I probably have an odd habit or two, but I can't think of any.

[ArielCallista]

I have to be completely barefoot. Even in class. and since in class I have no control over other people and the location of their pins I have to put shoes on and taken them off over and over again. At home I've got a push butttons start but I have to be barefoot anyway. I also have to take off my watch, rings and any bracelets I'm wearing that day. Also my necklace if I'm wearing a long one. Back when I had long hair I had to put it up with a hair comb I got at faire so I didn't worry about it falling in my face. My hair is short enough now that tucking it behind my ears is enough.

[Hoowil]

I also have the odd habit of putting slightly bent pins, that I think I might eventually get around to straightening out to use again, in the green top part of my pin cushion.

I just noticed the growing collection of bent/broken machine needles in my pin box. No clue why I've been keeping them.

[Kate XXXXXX]

I've just seen the results of a habit I forgot: the arm of my sofa looks like a pincushion, because that's what I do with it when I'm hand stitching in front of the telly: poke the pins into the arm of the sofa beside me!

[Lady Rosalind]

I've just seen the results of a habit I forgot: the arm of my sofa looks like a pincushion, because that's what I do with it when I'm hand stitching in front of the telly: poke the pins into the arm of the sofa beside me!

I used to do that, until I got a leather sofa... Absentmindedly nearly poked a hole in it, but luckily caught myself in time...

[Elennare]

I just thought of another one.  Well, it's not really mine, but my sewing helper's...

My kitty likes to occasionally check that I have the machine threaded correctly, and that the thread is running smoothly from the spool into the machine.  This is not a problem, except when she decides to do it while I'm stitching something.  Then, it results in broken thread.  Ah well.  At least she's not checking that the needle is working right... 

[Pinn]

I also sew barefoot and my room can look like a disaster hit it and I still know where everything is. Until I am finished that is and then I have to clean it top to bottom and put everything away. And I have to have a lot of light to work with.

[Adriana Rose]

I dont need cats to pull the thread out. My little niece who is 19 months likes to pull the spool off while I am sewing, then she likes to hold her hand over the hand wheel and feel it spin

[Genievea Brookstone]

Barefoot, glasses off, pins in the mouth,  new pins for each new project (can never have too many pins),  I also bless the Almighty Scissors as they are  gently taken in and out of its case with each use...and...I have to have one of the LoTR movies playing,  dunno why,  but I cant concentrate if I dont have them in

[gem]

Well, ok, if we're talking about rituals--I have to have a dose of RF.com in between every single step of a project! Hence my spate of "Need help now quick!!!" posts.  Cut out the fabric, take a RF break. Sew the first seams, RF break. And so on.

I will occasionally park a needle in the arm of my sofa as I sew or embroider--but, again, have never LEFT one there! The dogs and the husband, remember? I've recently discovered that my pincushion has eaten *all* of my hand sewing needles, and I can't seem to get it to give them up. Sigh.

And this is silly, but hardly *my* habit--the one feature I wish my Viking Emerald had was a stop-start button that bypassed the foot control, because my dog Gracie Pigeon insists on SLEEPING ON IT while I sew!!

[Hoowil]

I can kind of understand the new pins for every project. I end up doing new pins every few projects, as I find the containers open in my basket, and can't get myself to sort through the accumulating mess in the bottom of my bin to find pins. I probably have half a dozen batches of assorted pins tangled down there.

And I seem to have a compulsion to buy a new measuring tape every other project, as I assume that I won't be able to find the old ones (the kids like to play with them), without even bothering to look.

[gem]

I can't get myself to sort through the accumulating mess in the bottom of my bin to find pins. I probably have half a dozen batches of assorted pins tangled down there.

That's too funny! I actually did exactly that last week (when I discovered the pincushion had eaten all my needles). I was hoping to find at least *one* sewing needle down there among the bent pins & bits of fluff, but no. At least I managed to toss out all those bent and broken pins!

[Dinobabe]

I always remember my mom's pin cushion eating her needles so I am extra careful not to let it happen to me!
Who knew tomatoes liked to eat needles?