Tip: Pins and needles and … magnets?

[Mike Oxford]

While making a tyvek bivy, I didn't want to perforate it at all.
Others may face the same when working with cuben, to hold things in place while glue setting, etc.

I ended up using a number of pairs of very strong rare-earth magnets.

This worked really well, left no perforations, would allow me to shift the "pin point" by sliding them past where I needed to work and also helped in clamping the seams.

Downside: They're not light, and might be bulky when working with a sewing machine unless you have a large table.

Upside to the downside, if you're sewing you probably don't care about pinholes anyways.

-mox

[Corey Miller]

You could probably get away with using clothes pins. That's what I used when I made my Tyvek bivy.

[Ken Thompson]

small binder clips.

[Bill Segraves]

For Tyvek, I've been getting nice results using scotch tape.

Best,

Bill

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