Safety Pins...do you know what they are? or what they're for?

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I fluxuate in sizes, so I use a lot of safety pins to cinch up the waistline of my pants, fake hems for when I'm wearing flats, then unpin them when I'm wearing heels. I use them to hold the waistline if my button is gone and I haven't sewn another one in. I used to use them for nail art before I got my nail art pens. We also use them in crafty things, making bracelets, beaded pins to act like buttons, little animals that you pin together the felt with the pins and then hand them out.

My daughter had this really long hole in her favorite pair of jeans and was devastated, we used a BUNCH of safety pins to hold the hole together so she could wear it the rest of the year. It was like a fashion statement and was pretty cool. I've used it on Halloween costumes too to hold things in place.

 

I love safety pins!! I use them to keep the dreaded gap at bay on button up shirts...I can't size up b/c then they' just too baggy on me. I have to use a safety pin to keep the belt to Sonnet's Darth Vader costume together.

I want to try "rusting" some to use on craft projects.

 

@Serena I've had to use them on buttons on pants too...I totally forgot about that LOL!!! It's all fun and games until it comes undone and pokes you in the belly though

 

We have a bunch... a must in Clara's dance performance case. They're always using them to "fix" a costume or make something stay down on stage. But outside of dance, I don't know that we've used them for anything else in quite a while!

Oh... I used to use them to thread hoodie strings back through since my kids were always pulling them out!

 

Safety pins are awesome. I always have some lying around, you never know what they might be good for

Another thing they are great for is threading (not sure if this is the correct word) a rubber band through the seam of pants, like PJs or so.
Oh, just read @tkradtke 's post, that's basically the same thing...

 

I use them with quilting when I want to keep layers together.
on my shirts when the buttons don't do their job and the shirt opens where you don't want it too.

 

I use them for pretty much all the same things - quilting, threading elastic in waistbands, zippers that don't stay up, missing buttons and threaded beads on them for a decorative effect.

 

I used to sew, many moons ago and I've got a little drawer full of them, various sizes. I'd use them to pin things together if I was trying things on and didn't want to get stuck (during the assembly process). And as Barbara mentioned, they work well for quilting. They make a decent bodkin to pull a cord thru a garment (think hoodie). I've seen people make jewelry with them, but mine just live in the closet in the little drawer.

 

Yep I use them for quilting and emergency repairs. I have bunches of them. It seemed like when I use to do a lot of crafting I used them a lot more.

 

I don't know about the original use, but yes, I have some as I am a sporadic sewer. I use them for all sorts of things but don't have a specific purpose to share at the moment.

About 40 years ago they would have been used for cloth diapers, although modern cloth diapers have velcro.

 

@mollyc

Well, about 26 years ago I used them for ds's cloth diapers. They were bigger and had cute duck shaped heads. They still hurt when you jabbed yourself with one.

I used them for all the reasons listed and still do from time to time.

Ah, just thought of another use. I frequented and participated in an used clothing sale where you had to pin shorts and pants to a wire hanger in order to sell them. I never did that at home, but that is what they wanted for the sale.

 

so i think your originalquestion has many answers already and i'd echo many of them. My problem is never finding a safety pin when i want one, but paper clips...i have a million, like everywhere and can't even think of a single time i used one (that wasn't digi on a layout!) other than unfolding it to have a long thin bit of wire occassionally, cos i tend to staple everything i can't safety pin

 

I use them all the time to mark beginning of pattern rows in my knitting. I have such a hard time trying to find quality ones now that don't just bend when you look at them.

 

I use them to hold things together. Keep them in your purse for emergency if a piece of clothes rips or you have that blouse that the buttonhole is just a little bit big and so you safety pin the material so it doesn't pop open.