> Why it's callled "winkie pin" (and it's called the
> same thing even if 
> it's not on the outside edge; whenever the worker
> turns around a pin 
> it's a "winkie pin"), I have no idea.

I was given an explanation in one class, and can
remember only part of it.  There is a word in Flemish
or Danish (somewhere in northern Europe) for that edge
stitch, and, to the English ear, it sounds like the
words 'winkie pin'.  Thus, the English speakers picked
up that term for the stitch.

Maybe someone else knows what that original word is.

Alice in Oregon

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