don't sew with pins in your mouth!

i grew up watching my momma sew...

she always had a mouth full of straight pins

and i have followed in her foot steps.

this probably isn't the smartest thing to do,

but it's habit and nothing bad has happened to

me yet... until today.

i was working on a sweater refashion (more on that later).

see my pretty green sweater that is way too big?

i used safety pins to fit it then started to sew,

taking the safety pins out as i went...

not taking time to close them...

and putting them, you guessed it,

in my mouth.

i did not feel anything amiss until i went to pull

the safety pins out of my mouth and one would not come.

somehow i managed to pinch a tiny piece of my tongue

between the coils of the safety pin and it was good and stuck!


just wanted to share
1. because i would hate anyone to suffer a
sewing injury that could have been prevented
by sharing my own stupidity
and 2. because that's a pretty cool picture!