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What do you do with your pins Hold them in your mouth?
mastdenman   Intermediate CA USA Member since 1/12/04 Posts: 5843	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 9:22 PM Here's an article written by a woman who accidentally inhaled one into her lung. I don't think I'll ever do this again. ------ Marilyn January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
dove29   Intermediate USA Member since 4/28/07 Posts: 992	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 9:48 PM OMG. Hadn't thought of the possibility of inhaling one. (I have a plastic lid I put them in, or I put them back in the pincushion.)
AdaH   Intermediate IA USA Member since 11/21/09 Posts: 2136	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 9:51 PM Oh my goodness that is scary. I am sorry to say I also put pins in my mouth but from now will try very hard not to. ------ Ada
nancy2001   Advanced AL USA Member since 12/3/05 Posts: 6113	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 9:59 PM I would never put pins in my mouth. It's not only dangerous -- it also looks horrible. I keep a Pin Place (a magnet attached to a suction cup) on the extension table of my machine. ------ The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. Richard Dawkins
Wino Intermediate PA USA Member since 9/24/06 Posts: 359	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 10:29 PM If you have ever visited the Mutter Museum (medical oddities) in Philadelphia, there is a cabinet with drawers containing items removed from people's throats. It's interesting that a significant number are pins and needles, and the patients are mostly women. Seeing that cured me from ever putting pins in my mouth-it's too dangerous. ------ wino
michelle_01 Intermediate GA USA Member since 3/23/04 Posts: 211	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 10:59 PM Wow! Although I've been trying to stop, I'm still guilty of doing that a lot. I have a wrist pin cushion that I've been trying to make myself use more often to avoid it. I think that article just cured me of that bad habit for good.
Sherril Miller   Advanced CA USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 7473	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 11:43 PM Seriously, how do you inhale a pin and not know it? I keep pins in my mouth all the time and after nearly 40 years, I'm not sure I'd be able to stop even if I had to. ------ Visit my blog at http://sewingsaga.blogspot.com If it's worth sewing, it's worth sewing well; and if it's worth sewing well, it's worth FITTING FIRST! - TSL
quathy   Intermediate CA USA Member since 6/3/06 Posts: 757	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/17/12 11:43 PM I'll stop putting pins in my mouth immediately! Somehow the thought of inhaling pins is much more horrifying than swallowing them.
KathySews   Advanced Beginner MI USA Member since 10/1/06 Posts: 2896	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 7/17/12 11:46 PM I have a wrist pin cushion and it has become such a habit that I put it on as soon as I enter the sewing room. I love it
Member since 12/31/69	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/18/12 1:01 AM I use a wrist pin cushion, my mouth, my clothes, magnets...whatever. I HAVE swallowed a pin when I was sewing while I had pneumonia. Since it came out, no one was too worried about it, including my doctor I was seeing. Usually swallowing them isn't my problem, I stick myself with them when I forget I am not wearing my wrist cushion and I have a rash of pin scars from that.

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