So long as she's not trying to make very fine lace the glass headed
pins are good.
I tip I picked up from Jacqui Barber is to use glass headed pins when
working with the very thick threads in a scarf or similar as they help
stop the thickest threads from jumping over the top of the pinheads.
If your student has sore fingers, would wearing a thimble or a sticky
plaster (band-aid, elastoplast etc) help? If I plan to make a proper
pricking on card, rather than just blue film over the pattern, I have
learned the painful way that it is better to apply a plaster to my
middle finger where it rubs on the pin vice *before* I start rather
than get a blister and then try to ease it.
Brenda
On 11 Apr 2009, at 13:54, [email protected] wrote:
For the pins we have tried using large glass headed pins to make them
easier to pick up and handle and less painful to push in and also a
large needle
in the pricker to make the holes not only in the card but into the
pillow as
well, so the pins can go into the pillow with less of a push.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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