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Old 05-21-2016, 09:20 AM
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What's your favorite kind of pincushion?
This week my quilting guild issued a one-month challenge for the most original, most creative, most fun pincushion to be brought to next month's meeting, either one we make or one we already own. Some of their samples were filled with what felt like sand, others felt like polyfill. I have seen pincushions filled with walnut shell chips, grain, and wool. (An old clipping says raw wool keeps needles from rusting.)
So how about it -- what do you like to USE, and what do you have just because you like to LOOK AT it?
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Old 05-21-2016, 09:29 AM
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For me it's wool all the way. I've tried everything and nothing beats wool.
I can leave my pins and needles in there without getting any rust.
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I like pincushions and have a lot. My favorite is the large old fashioned tomato one made out of velvet. I don't know what is inside. All the ones I make have a rice bases with wool stuffing. Natural wool has lanolin. My most useful pincushion is the Zirkel magnetic one. It looks great filled with a lot of pins. The post earlier of the little girl sewing caddy with pincushion was darling.
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Old 05-21-2016, 09:31 AM
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I just have two pincushions--a regular old tomato pincushion with a tiny emery strawberry, and a large strawberry filled with emery. The tomato one holds my flower head pins and the large strawberry emery one holds my very thin glass head pins. I've got one of those wrist ones too, almost forgot about it because I never did get the hang of using it. LOL

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Old 05-21-2016, 09:55 AM
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I have 3 of those magnetic pincushions.
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Old 05-21-2016, 10:13 AM
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I use all kinds. I have several magnetic ones, also the familiar tomato, but one of my favorites is the Ewesful. http://www.ewesful.com/ewesful.html. I like the wool texture, and it is larger than most so it holds more pins. I don't make my own - too easy to buy one - but a guild I belonged to made and sold a lot of the ones that looked like chickens.
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Old 05-21-2016, 10:25 AM
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Would the soft hair that dogs shed in the summer work for filling pincushions?
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Old 05-21-2016, 10:41 AM
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Google images has tons of really cute ideas. Just search 'pin cushion'
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I use one I made myself, it's out of a scrap piece of camouflage pattern fabric and I stuffed it with a steel wool scrubbie wrapped in polyfill batting. It's really not fancy, but it's nice and big. (about the size of my hand)

Ones I found really cute were vintage tea cups that were stuffed with wool. Very classy looking, although it would be no good for me except as decoration as I'd break it in no time.

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I only use the magnetic pin holders now.
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