Pin a Point

I use a safety pin to mark where I stopped when I am machine quilting in the ditch with invisible thread. Then I don't need to look at the underside of my quilt to figure out where I finished. The pin is especially useful when the pattern requires lots of starts and stops.

-Margaret Humphrey

St. Louis, Missouri

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