Pinning Away!

 

My New Pincushions!

 

Making pincushions for the ...

 

  

... was sew much fun ..

... that I made three!

 

Pincushion #1

 

Meet Clucky!

My new pincushion # 1

There are several good tutorials out there on how to make these.

Here is the link that I started with ...

Spring Chickens @ Riley Blake Designs

This tutorial is from

Deonn @ Quiltscapes,

who is one of our blog hop participants,

There are a lot of great Tutorials on her blog!

Thanks, Deonn!

Deonn's tutorial first appeared on

Hen Party @ Sew We Quilt

as part of the "Wanna  Be A Quilter" campaign posts!

 

I wanted to make a scrappy fall colored chicken.

So I pulled out my basket of fall colored fabric scraps and sewed small squares and rectangles and strips together.

Then I cut and squared to size, 3.5" square
and followed the tutorial.

 

I added some embroidery stitching for detail.

 

 

Here is Clucky from the back.
I did not have real chicken feathers like Vickie so I had to settle for fluffy yarn ones for the "tail feathers" and "comb"
and I used tiny glass beads for eyes.

Then ...
 

Clucky looked lonely all by herself in my scrapatch,
so I made ...

 

 

 

Sunny!

Pincushion # 2

 

 

Sunny, the Sunflower Girl, was made by cutting a circle.

 

 

 Sewing around the edge

 

 

and gathering and stuffing with poly fiber.

 

 

Then I painted a face on a wooden bead,

added curly doll hair and bead and ribbon accessories

and a little straw hat I found in some old craft supplies. 

I used a glue gun to glue on the hair, the hat and then to attach the head to the pincushion.

 

 

 

This is my sunflower girl from the back.

 

I love the fabric that I used in the doll pincushion dress

so I decided to make one more ...

 

 

 

A Sunflower!

Pincushion # 3

 

 

For the top of my safety pin jar

 

This one was made to attach to the top of the wide mouth canning jar that I use for my quilt basting safety pins. 

I like the wide mouth jar because I can reach inside easily.  Sometimes when I am removing, smoothing and repining the quilt sandwich I am looking for a place to stick the open safety pins so I decided that a pincushion of the top of my pin jar was just the thing I needed.

 

 

The smallest petals were made with this Clover petal maker.
The shape reminded me of a hexie.
So ... 

 

 

Once I understood the method,
I cut larger hexagons to make larger petals.

 

The petals are made by sewing

 

 

and gathering.

 

This pincushion jar topper will be very useful!

The quilt top in the back is my new hand project. 
I made this  Fall Schnibble Quilt last August and put it aside
while I was deciding how I wanted to quilt it. 
I am embroidering free style leaves in the squares.

 

There are so many lovely new pincushion creations,

 
Be sure to visit all the wonderful pin cushions today!
 

September 17th
 

Life in the Scrapatch (you are here!)

Why-Knot-Kwilt

Amy Made That...by eamylove

Michelle's Romantic Tangle

Quiltscapes

Kwilty Pleasures

Words and Stitches

Val's Quilting Studio

Les Quilts

Sew Peace to Peace

Bumbleberry Stitches

Susie's Sunroom

Quilts From My Crayon Box

Quarter Incher

I Like to QuiltBlog

Just Quilt It

Sew We Quilt

 

 Thanks to Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt

 

and to

 

Kristen @ Meadowbrook

 

for this wonderful blog hop!

Still reading?

Time for a Giveaway!

 

 

I have been very lucky again in winning some of the blog hop goodies,

so I want to spread the love by giving away this

Kanzashi Flower Maker by Clover

and a pack of 24 Bold Solid Charms from Connecting Threads

so that one of my readers may enjoy making flowers, too!

 

To win this giveaway you do not need to be a follower, 

just leave one lovely comment.  If you have a favorite of the three pincushions that I made, I would love to know which one.

 

For a second chance to win, please be a follower and leave a second comment saying that you do.

 

I will send an email to notify the winner so please be sure I have a way to contact you.

 

If you cannot leave a comment, you may also enter by sending me an email directly and will enter your comment for you.  My email address may be found under "Contact Me" in my header bar.

 

I will send this giveaway anywhere in the world.

 

This giveaway will close at Midnight EDT on Thursday, September 18th.

 

The winner will be announced on Friday, September 19th.

 

Good luck!

 

I hope you have enjoyed my little contribution
to the pincushion world!

Thanks for visiting my Scrapatch!

 

~ <3 ~