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Needle Buddy
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Here's something every seamstress probably has but I never saw one advertised, maybe because their so easy to make. I just
made a heart or strawberry shape in red felt. Fold it over a curved
diaper pin, then blanket stitched around, stuffed it and closed
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Christmas Pincushion
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don't have the pattern up - been busy - but I made a neat pincushion
out of 4 - 4" equilateral triangle pieces of quilt fabric. The top 3 were is varying patterns of green fabric and I decorated the joins with simple bead embellishment. Looks like a Christmas tree. The bottom was plain fabric with cardboard added for stability. I keep pins in one triangle side, fine needles in another and long, coarser needles in the third. |
| A thumb cloth pincushion! You take a plastic bottle top which will be about 1" or less deep. Heat a nail and using pliers to hold it make a hole in the bottom of the plastic cap that is big enough to thread through some regular flat elastic. Thread through some of this 1/2" or less elastic and tie both ends in a knot in the inside of the bottle cap. Glue some lace around the inside rim of the bottle cap. Make a 3" approx. circle of fabric. Sew a running stitch around the outside of this circle leaving a bit of a hole for stuffing. Stuff it with wool or fibre fill. Pull the circle tight closed with your thread and knot it off then hot glue it to the bottom of the bottle cap. Presto! a thumb cloth pincushion! |
Here the address for another
pincushion.
I have learned that these items are rightfully called 'chatelaines'
from the days when women had a more extensive household to look after
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