In the process of trying on my newly sewn pants with its generic trial waistband, I went into the closet to get the portable full-length mirror. Something grabbed the waistband on the way out. It was the groove/hole for the latch on the doorframe. Oh, no, I thought, and checked the pants and nope, no hole and no pulled threads nor snags. Whew! However....
....one of the straight pins holding the band on had gone AWOL. I made a quick check of the area and no pin in sight. I checked on hands and knees next, using my super light, running my hand through the carpet fibers---and still no pin. Since it's a low pile it would be easy to spot.
Then I spotted the white pin head about three feet away, but that's all it was---the pin was not attached! I continued to check carpet in all areas I thought the pin could possibly go; I checked my person; I checked my newly sewn pants. The pin was definitely hiding quite well from me.
By now I've checked the carpet a few times. I have four choices:
1) continue looking
2) try vacuuming and hopefully---and maybe falsely---expecting it to be picked up
3) execute the most trustworthy of operations to find a missing sharp object: going barefoot
4) quit looking and hope for the best
I must continue to look for the pin as I don't want my hubby's foot to find it. After all, it's not his fault---nor mine either---but I am responsible for the event which led up to this.
Once more I go over the carpet, expanding the area to be covered slightly. Nope, no luck. This was exasperating me. Where else could the pin be? Well, it could be anywhere. I have the lower rod for my blouses so decided to check them. I would grab 2 or 3, shake them, then check the carpet. When I was almost half-way through....there it was!! There was the pin, no longer AWOL. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
A lot of luck had been in play since the pin had given way and not done any damage to my yet unfinished pants. I breathed a sigh of relief...well, more than one.
And that is how I spent Friday morning.
7 comments:
Congratulations on your successful sleuthing! You have given new meaning to the word "straight pin". :D That pin could not be a more perfect 90 degrees If you tried. Impressive!
Oh, thank you. Step-son once had a hand embroidery needle flee from him and he told me he had tried to find it, but couldn't. It took me awhile but I did find it, but that needle is quite a bit larger than a straight pin.
In the future I will have to walk further away from door jambs. LOL
Once I serged over a pin and it flew across the room, thankfully not hitting me in the eye! Half the pin was in the fabric and I finally found the other half by the door, on the opposite side of the room. For a long time I refused to use pins with my serger. Now I just go very slowly if I use them. Lesson learned!
Holy cow! Who knew that the sewing room could be such a dangerous place. Maybe we should take out extra insurance. LOL
I see Blogger used your updated pic. Very nice.
Nice!!! WOW.....good pin story there - glad you found it too and how did that angle occur?! WOW....reminds me of the time I punched a perfect hole in the head of a safety pin while quilting with a 16 Topstitch needle - Titanium kind.....WOW.....You changed the blog look, eh? FUN!
Thank you for commenting. See, had we tried for those perfect shapes, we would never have been able to achieve them.
Yes, I like to change the background every so often.
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