Bulb Safety Pins 23mm – 50 pcs in Storage Box – Black Plated Steel

Black plated carbon steel bulb safety pins, especially versatile, you can use them in a wide range of craft applications from sewing, knitting , crochet to other general household uses.

These are also perfect to attach delicate, non-washable, shank buttons on to your garments, so you can remove them before washing your clothes. Perfect if you love your handmade, or wooden buttons which cannot be washed and need to be removed each time.

These small safety pins are a must have in your haberdashery box for those handmade delicate buttons because they make buttons removable and interchangeable. They can be used as stitch and row marker for all your knitting and crochet projects also. They do not have a coil like traditional safety pins have., but a bulb shaped ending instead. They come as a pack of 50 pieces in a useful re-closable storage box. They each measure 23mm long.

Instructions for use for buttons:

Step 1 – Open the safety pin and insert the sharp point into the fabric where you want to attach the button and through the back of the button (or the shank).

Step 2 – Insert the sharp point through the fabric again as close to the initial insertion point as possible.

Step 3 – Close the safety pin and pull it so that the bump is in the middle, between the two insertion points.

Step 4 – Check that the button is properly positioned. And voilà !