Sewing Machine Pin Cushion

For my second sewing project this month, I'm continuing my theme of trying out scrap fabric projects. While I was searching out true scrap projects, I stumbled across an idea to make a sewing machine pin cushion. At first I thought it was a nice idea, but I've already made two pin cushions this year. The last thing I need is another pin cushion, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized how useful this pin cushion would be. With it I would be able to have a convenient place to put my pins while I''m using my sewing machine. And perhaps I would lose less pins by using it.

(Plus you can never have too many pin cushions... right?)

The Project

Use Scraps to Make a Sewing Machine Pin Cushion

Instructions from I Can Find The Time

Supplies Needed:

Results

For this pin cushion, I actually just used some of my fat quarter strips. I liked that it would match my other pin cushions, but not be the exact same as the other two. I also had a little strip of Pellon thermolam left over, so I decided to use that for my interfacing.

I actually thought it would make it so that I wouldn't have to stuff it later, but we'll touch on that later.

Next, I cut a long piece of ribbon. I believe I made sure that it was long enough that it was able to wrap around my sewing machine with plenty of room to tie a bow, too. I then cut it in half. i pinned the two halves and ribbons strands together and then stitched around the outside.

Once I have the pin cushion mostly sewn together, I began stuffing it with a steel wool pad. I either didn't leave a hole big enough to get the steel wool in easy or there is no easy way to get the steel wool into a elongated pin cushion.

After some tugging and pulling on everything I was able to get the steel wool inside, but I noticed that my pin cushion still didn't look right. So I added a little bit of stuffing to fill it out. I then whip stitched the hole together.

i finished up my pin cushion by stitching down the ends of the ribbon.