Dear Tamara and other readers,
Some years back, when I was still dabbling with Point Ground, I *did* use a different -- colour-headed -- pin, to hang a gimp from. For the same reason that Clay mentioned -- to remind myself to remove it, before it got locked beyond the ability to tension the gimp properly. But that happened only once-twice per repeat, so I never needed more than a couple of those. Having to use a thicker pin for every picot... Yuck.
The "pins" I use to hang in gimp are actually sewing needles with a bead glued over the eye. I remove them after only one or two pins. It's never been an issue.
However, with the use of bigger pins for picots, I should have been more clear. Because I am talking point ground laces here, the picots are only right around the edge, and as such you simply end up with the larger pins along both footside and headside as well as forming a line where you begin. It's no problem at all.
I then end up pushing those pins right in and removing the small Withof pins as I go and bringing them up to the front. So when the work is finished, there are simply the larger pins to remove which go separately into their own box.
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