I made a pincushion.
I started learning to sew in September 2007, so this is not my first sewing project. But I completed it recently and I thought a pincushion was thematically apt to open a blog about sewing.
Project Source: this tutorial, which I chose after maybe an hour of googling. The pincushion idea had originally been sparked by sewmamasew’s handmade holidays blog posts, and I think the one I eventually chose was featured there in the first place.
Project Notes: this was super easy and super short. You make your own 2.5″ square template. What I really love, besides the design, is that it is the super perfect thing for small scraps of fabric you love. Yay! Also, my previous picushion, generously donated by my mom, was really some kind of stiff hackeysack? And it bent many pins that I tried to stick (or rather shove) into it. In comparison, my pins now slide in like buttah. Faboo.
Mistakes/Complications: I forgot to add the seam allowance while cutting my pieces. So I guess my end product was smaller than it was meant to be. But I don’t think of this as a real problem, and I heart my pincushion anyway.
Tags: from a tutorial, pincushion, quick and easy, scraps