Pinning for Correct Placement

There have been times in my earlier days of knitting when I was so keen to finish up, that instead of pinning out a toy animal’s face first, I just winged it and cracked on with the sewing. Then at the end I was a little disappointed in my end work.

Pinning does take a bit longer, but that extra time is well spent. What you are actually spending the time on is looking to see if it’s right and then making adjustments and looking again. This looking and fiddling with the pinning is what is needed to have an end product that you are proud of, that brings you contentment.

I find this is probably most important for animal faces. Pinning out all the facial parts before sewing means that I can adjust the face components so that I don’t end up with a boggle eyed mutant with lopsided ears.



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