I've been working hard on my 'pass-it-outs' for this Christmas since summer began. I'll share more later on those for this year.
But I realized there was something I needed. This is my pin cushion:
It's just the traditional little hand-sized tomato with a little strawberry attached for (supposedly) sharpening your pins.
Just look at how stuffed it is. It may be about to reach a saturation point. I'm not sure.
Yep, it was that full all around.
The tomatoes aren't terribly large. And, in recent years, I've realized that I really prefer longer pins (although, to be honest, I'm not sure I realized there were PURPOSEFULLY different lengths of pins).
Which also meant that, on occasion, I would grab it and get poked by the sharp end of a pin that stuck all the way through.
I hadn't really thought about it too much. Just figured that was the deal with pin cushions. Until I was watching one of the Youtube channels I follow and, as she was getting ready to cut out a pattern, she set on the table a pyramid shaped pin cushion.
And I thought to myself, "Eureka!" Okay, not really. But I did have some sort of 'a-ha' moment there because I realized that was what I needed.
Even better, it occurred to me that she had mentioned making them herself at some point in a previous video. So I looked it up.
It looked pretty perfect for scrap busting too. So I yanked out my scrap bin and got to work.
They turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself.
Even if my "invisible" stitching wasn't that great.
I'm no longer worried about grabbing it and poking myself now.
Now, I just have to figure out where I can put the other two boxes of pins I just found while reorganizing my sewing stuff.
Hmm. I might have to make another one. Gee, what a shame. 😊
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