Showing posts with label Pincushions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pincushions. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pincushion Parade

Beth of Lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com is hosting a pincushion parade.  Here are most of mine:



I have workhorses:



I use this one, but I removed the pins, so you can read it:


The rest are decorative.  Christmas:

Halloween:


Beaded:


A gift from my sister, who went to China last year: 


The classic shoe:

This one is unprocessed wool. The lanolin keeps needles from rusting.


Several are too pretty to use:






My tomato pincushion has disappeared.  It is probably under something on my sewing table.  I try to keep one pincushion on the ironing baord, one  by the sewing machine, one on the cutting table, and one by the chair where I do my hand stitching.