About a year and a half ago, I went to the Quilt Kitchen in Exeter and succumbed to a book on making pin cushions. You can read about that here. It is very addictive and such fun to use up leaders/enders, selvages and bits and pieces of leftover fabrics from other projects. Many years ago I went to a few miniature quilt classes with Kathy Wagner who blogs here. She suggested that when you finish off a quilt to file small leftovers into a basket or drawer together so that when you wish to make a mini quilt, you have a nice set of fabrics that go together nicely. This works for pin cushions too ☺. Every once in awhile, I grab my book and some of these fabrics and cut out a bunch of pin cushions. Then when I need to test a sewing machine for Jake, I have something fun to make!
In October, one of my small guilds held a 20th anniversary get together (which was way scaled down due to covid). I had enough pin cushions in my jar to give everyone in the group a pin cushion and another friend in the group made a lovely hooked coaster for everyone.
This photo shows the 19 pin cushions needed for everyone.
The jar is filling up again :-).
2 comments:
What a wonderful thing to have on hand for friends!! Love the colors!
How nice to have so many ready to give away. Have fun making more. I got to meet Kathy a few years ago when she came to the Michigan TOGA.
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