Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle old blunt and bent pins?

By: acev

acev — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Push them through a square piece of styrofoam board, and use it to prop your dyed Easter eggs on to dry. Keeps them from getting impressions on them.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:43:42 +0000

Rupert-

Do you mean the tops of the pins are colored? I have quite a few that I do not use anymore because they are too small- I use a larger one now. If you are still interested, I could send them to you. Let me know:

julie_ness@yahoo.com

By: Rupert Savage

Rupert Savage — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:00:59 +0000

Please, please, please, do let me know if you have any coloured pins that are lying around. I am preparing a peice of installation art and desperately need as many as possible.

If anyone knows where else to look, ANY advice would be greatly appreciated…prices are extortionate for coloured pins.

Of course if you help, your name will apear on the program as a sponsor!

Thankyou

Rupert Savage

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:43:55 +0000

You can sharpen blunt pins and needles very easily with a knife-sharpening stone.

By: alison bailey smith

alison bailey smith — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:25:30 +0000

Thank you for that link. Respect for tools that help you achieve wonderful creations. It would be interesting to know what happens after they have paid their respects.

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:57:55 +0000

This isn’t recycling — but I think the Japanese hari-kuyo festival is a lovely idea. Needles which have broken during the year are saved up and on the day, stuck into pieces of bean curd to thank them for all their hard work.

You can read about it, and see pictures here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKT33020120070208

By: Karmae

Karmae — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:21:45 +0000

if they are just blunt, sharpen them by using a good pincushion that is filled with emery powder.

By: alison bailey smith

alison bailey smith — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:55:43 +0000

It is a different kind of metal and can snap when you turn the top over so from normal pins for using in jewellery so be careful and consider wearing eye protection. Better to be safe than sorry. Once they are bent over, no problem, the dressmaking pins do the same job as conventional wire pins.

By: Amberjet

Amberjet — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:56:51 +0000

You can trim the pins short and then bend the ends into a loop like on an eye pin. Attach several of these to a short length (about 1 inch or less) of chain using jump rings and the end of the chain to an earring hook. Do this twice and you have a cute pair of colorful earrings! :D