Sweet Pincushion

At Thursday night's meeting of the Magpie Quilters, Karen came prepared to share a cool technique for making a pincushion. And it can all be done by hand.

Supplies: fabric - something heavier that quilting cotton is best, thread, needle and stuffing. The stuffing that Karen brought was an incredible bag of lavender. 

Cut the fabric into a rectangle that when folded in half provides a square. In this example, the size was 6 1/2" x 3 1/2". Stitch up the sides:

Piece of cake; right? Now stuff it full of filling. I used fiberfill because I don't have a bag of lavender handy. For a nice pin cushion, you want to fill it pretty tightly.

Fold it so that the seams meet - that's the trick to the fun shape. 

 

And that's all there is to it! A fun and easy project.