Poof Pin Cushion
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Very nice, looking good. I have a question about the pin cushion. Does the wood base screw on to the board it is on? Did you glue the pincushion? How is it fastened? Also what did you clean the wood with? It sure made a beautiful difference.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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>>> Then I added the sawdust and wood disk to the bottom and cinched it up good and tight. The screw actually goes right up to attach the base and into the wood disk sewn into the cushion attaching it as well. I could not tell with mine whether glue had also been used to hold the cushion in place or not.
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Very nice job, I love the pin cushion. It may have been added on by someone, but still it is great. I often use small pin cushions and make small pincushions as well. That way I can have more for my collection and they don't take up much room, a lot of the old/vintage pincushions were very small, or tiny.lol
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This is not really a great photo but hopefully I can add a little explanation. I made a little muslin sack a added a scoop of sawdust and I kept having to make it smaller and smaller to approximate size of the ruined original pin cushion. In the back to the right you can see a blurry disk. That is the wood piece that was inside. I did a gathering thread and wrapped the pretty velvet over the muslin, now including the wood disk that was originally inside. *It's a very lumpy rough piece of wood--not finished to any great quality. I had removed the cover plate from the box and turned it over. Directly through the bottom under the pin cushion was a screw that goes through a hole and through the little wood"cup" and then anchors the works by going into the wood disk. The screw underneath lies flush when it's in so the the piece can still be moved to open the compartment.
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>>> That is the wood piece that was inside. I did a gathering thread and wrapped the pretty velvet over the muslin, now including the wood disk that was originally inside. *It's a very lumpy rough piece of wood--not finished to any great quality. I had removed the cover plate from the box and turned it over. Directly through the bottom under the pin cushion was a screw that goes through a hole and through the little wood"cup" and then anchors the works by going into the wood disk. The screw underneath lies flush when it's in so the the piece can still be moved to open the compartment.
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After thought question -- Since I'm pretty sure the machine that goes with this pin cushion is a Pfaff 11, have you worked on the machine and did it have a felt wick in the shuttle area like the Singers?
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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