Those little pinwheels of pins that you get with your sewing machine
or from the dollar store are just fine until they're not.
Yes, there are better options and I know that I have my favorite types of pins.
I like a variety of different types of pins in my sewing kit
that really have their different uses for different purposes,
and I'm going to show you through them all today.
So hopefully you can build your pin sewing kit as well and get better use
out of these very, very, you know, I think not talked about enough
sewing item.
Welcome, dear sewing friend.
It is wonderful to see your smiling faces again.
We are talking, in fact, sewing pins, of course,
because I recently made another video you might remember
about alternatives to pins and what else you might be able to use in your sewing.
Other than pins and in that video, it was questioned a lot about, well, hang on.
Are they different types of pins?
What are they good for?
And so here we are,
and we are going to discuss
all of the different types of pins that at least I like and a few extras
because all the pins I'm going to talk about here, you don't need them all.
But there will be maybe about five that you really will want in your sewing kit.
Now, when you get started sewing, you do not need any of these fancy things.
The ones that you get from the dollar store
that come with your machine are totally fine.
Get started. You use them.
But as you move along in your sewing, you realize that
maybe they're a little bit blunt
and they're bit fake and chunky, and you'll probably ask yourself at one point.
Are there different pins that I could be using?
Yes, there are.
Now I've broken it into a few categories here.
Some a specialty.
Some sort of, you know, used for all types of purposes.
But I'm going to list them all out and talk
you through them and obviously tell you my favorites along the way, too.
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The first of all, you will want your regular straight pin.
And now in your regular stripe pin for pretty much all the general purpose
use, you'll want to different lengths and generally two different widths.
Now let's take a little bit closer.
Look at the peanuts.
So, so to begin, every pin has the little head on the top, the little bowl,
and those can either be plastic or they can be glass.
And yes, I definitely recommend that you go glass.
So plastic are fine, but glass ones?
Well, they look nicer, they feel nicer and they don't melt under the eye.
And so that's the biggest plus of it all.
I definitely recommend that you upgrade to Glass had two pins
wherever you can on your straight pins are definitely one that you can,
but your straight pins went into lengths.
Generally, these are extra long pins here I like to use
and then won a smaller, regular length.
They both have the uses,
the small one usually you want in a final length as well.
Sorry, I find a width because along with length, you have the width of the pin.
And so this is how wide, how big the diameter he's here.
And essentially, that also then means how big of a hole
that it will make in your fabric.
And so fabrics such as silk, for example,
aren't so for pairing, so they end up having holes
left in them from pins and you want the finest possible.
So it depends on what you're sewing as to what you like.
But generally, for me, I like these longer ones for big long
areas like hems and seams and pinning that sort of area
because you get a nice big length and it works really well.
But for a zips, for example, this will never do.
It's way too big.
You need small, fine and delicate for things like zips and lots of them,
rather than lots of big ones.
So that's where all of your little ones like this will be useful in.
Those tell a more delicate situations,
and so generally I have a smaller length pin in a finer width
and the longer length I have in a wider width
and now the width of pins, well, it varies.
For example, these glass headed ones here are 44 millimeters, so 0.4 centimeters.
I do not have any idea how many inches that is.
I'm really sorry.
You'll have to refer to Google for that one.
So and lace ones on 0.55.
So you can see there's a bit of difference when you get to the sort of four mm
in that variants are finer pins, and the five and six millimeter
are sort of five is about average and six is a bit thicker.
So quilting pins, for example, are often very thick and long
because they're going through lots of layers.
So you need something thick and sturdy and quite long,
so you can actually pin those sorts of lengths.
And so just to recap your regular straight pin generally to different
lengths and long, extra long, usually as standard width or a little bit thicker
and then your standard more your regular length, a shorter one.
But a final one will be very useful, I think, for pretty much everyone
in most of her sewing.
Now the next kind of pin of the traditional dressmakers pins
that can be given lots of different names,
but they're the ones that are just all steel and have no head on them.
Now, I actually don't think almost any of us are going to use
this type of pin in our regular sewing as we're constructing a garment .
Because let's face it, these is really hard to try and hold and get a.
A handle of I know, I know, I need a nice big like bowl
at the end to be able to grab onto, and I'm pretty sure that you're the same.
So it's very unlikely we use these for actual regular sowing,
but they can be called the perfect for lace.
This one's called dressmakers pants, so they're called all different things.
But yes, they're for lace is perfect because they're generally a bit finer.
Most of the time you can get them nice and fine, and so you want them for that.
The other reason you would want a couple of these in your collection,
as I do, is I have brass ones and stainless steel and so nickel plated.
I'm sorry there's stainless steel as well.
And so these do not rust.
And so you will want a kind of pin that is super rust proof for long term.
So you know, when you have a roll of elastic or lace
or something like that in your storing it and you often see, you know, in grandma's
little little bundle of haberdashery and they've got a pin through that.
And then often, if it's completely rusted out,
it means it was just a steel steel peel pin.
If you have brass pins, you can actually use them for all of that type of reasons.
And they will not rust and your beautiful laces or whatever
you going to pin in and keep them there will be fine.
For example,
if you're going to make a mannequin and so pinning things in, you want brass
or something that won't rust, and these are really great for that.
And sometimes you just need lace or without a little big head in the way
you might actually need to use, too.
So that's why those more what I'm just going to call traditional dressmakers
pins, they're often called that or they're called lace pins.
A few
different names, as I said, but essentially the ones with no head.
Now the next one is something that I really love, and I don't think a lot
of people know about this or maybe use it, but maybe it'd be useful for you.
And that is these extra extra long.
It's actually a florist pin.
And so this is a super long.
So this is the extra long pin that I was talking about here.
But this like far exceeds this.
I think these are five centimeters long or two inches from memory,
and they're quite thick and sturdy.
And so this I use for a multiple of reasons.
I don't have a lot of them.
Mostly, though, for fitting is because you can get such a long amount
in a really sturdy.
And so you can fit really easily.
For example, when you're trying to fit, you only need,
you know, one to three pins, maybe down the side.
Instead of 25 small pins, you can just pin
and be able to fit yourself quite easily with these bigger ones.
And the other reason I like to use these is actually at the machine
as a way of as your sewing to actually ease in the fabric.
And so I can get really close to where the needle is coming down and
not put my finger there, I can use the pin instead to glide things through.
It's a nice size.
It has a nice little nice large head
to hold on to and it's really easy to maneuver.
So that's what I use these extra long.
Well, they are
Flora's pins for the next one is the humble safety pin.
You probably are aware that, yes, you will need one of these.
And now not all safety pins are created equal.
first of all, you want the safety pins for, well,
it can actually create a pain free fitting.
So if you want to, you have a garment
pinned, for example, and you want to try it on.
But ouch.
Just replace what your regular pins with the safety pins in place,
and then you can put it on and off and, you know, no pain.
They're also handy for, obviously, as you know, turning through plastics and such.
Here is the thing you definitely do not want
to find little safety pins because basically,
if you can do this with your safety pin like this, you do not want this at all.
No, no, no. This is you do not want this.
Trust me, you'll know when you feel it, when you feel it, you should be so stiff
and solid, like it's really hard and doesn't want to bend at all.
That is the safety pin that you want. I need some more.
These are all garbage and they need to,
you know, go to the bin because they are terrible and bendy.
You want a nice, solid safety pin.
Just a few of them in your stash.
Ready for those occasions
when you need it somewhat of a new discovery is a fork pin.
So this fork pin is basically a pin.
That is exactly that.
It is forked and it has two prongs that you sort of pin through together.
Now these are quite incredible.
They're sort of really great for their.
I think they're big on quilting, but for garments sewing,
I found really good for when you need extra sturdy
if you actually when you are matching seams and cross points.
This is perfect.
I often put across hip Heenan to keep it in place
so you can sew up and over as holding in gathers
and things like this that you really need sort of a good double prong.
Instead of two pins, you can just use one of these.
It really does.
It is useful.
You won't need a lot of them, of course, but when you need them,
they're super fantastic.
I got mine from a store sewing gem that were kind enough
to give them to me for a video I did on new sewing tools .
I will link that down below as well.
But these were.
Fantastic and sewing gem store, there are really wonderful in Australia or the UK.
I definitely recommend getting your sewing supplies from them,
and another specialty is a bullheaded pin.
So this is one I don't have one, but where the actual
point of the pin is a bowl head, just like our sewing needles
are for knitwear, you guessed it, these pins are perfect for knitwear.
So instead of having a super sharp and at piercing your fibers in knits
when you pin it, it's a little bowl head .
So just as the
bowl head works onto our machines, the ball pushes through and it sort of,
you know, glides through and
pokes itself through all of the stretchy fibers in there without pleasing them.
And that's the whole point of the four point needle if you saw a lot of knits.
These would be really handy.
What I would suggest, though, is you look for ones
that have a different type of head on them to your other pins, so you can
actually identify which are bullhead and which are not because otherwise,
I think it would be absolutely near impossible to know which are bullhead
and which are not unless they had a different little head on them up here.
I would say that there are four types of pins I use all of the time, and for me,
they would be the extra long glass headed pin, the finer, shorter glass headed pin,
the long last pin, this super duper long florist pin
and a good quality safety pin one that doesn't bend,
which is none of these ones here, obviously.
Now you know what all the types of pins are and how to use them.
I hope it really helps you.
I would love to know what are your favorite types of pins down
below to tell us because somebody else might just want to hear
about your favorites as well?
There'll be a wealth of knowledge down there,
so make sure you read all those comments like the comments that you find enjoyable,
because that's how we all work as a sewing community here.
If no one told me about these folk pins,
for example, I would never know that they existed.
That is what we are all here for.
Thank you very much for watching and do check the description box below
for all of those videos and a lot of extra links
there that I think that you really enjoy other videos as well.
And so next time I saw your friends happy sewing, bye.