This is one of my favorite pin cushions. I don’t have a name for the little lady…she’s just very good company when I’m at my sewing machine, and she never admonishes me when I make a mistake!
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What is the composition of the pincusion? Did you quilt it and then sew it shut and then stuff it? Is it stuffed with fiber fill?
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I purchased this pin cushion on ebay a few years ago, and I had to refurbish the pin cushion inside the "well" and parts of the little lady...Originally the pincushion was filled with a natural fiber, stuffed inside a "ball" and inserted inside the "well" from the bottom, not the top. The bottom then had a thick paper glued in place to keep it all intact.
My pincushion is stuffed with "parakeet sand" because I wanted the weight, and somewhere I thought I recalled "sand" offered some sharpening qualities (??) or maybe I dreamed that (!). Any hoo, I think I first made a muslin ball, filled it with sand, then used blue fabric to cover it where it would be seen from the top, and finally used a new piece of thick paper to glue onto the bottom to keep it from falling out when lifted.