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Old 03-09-2011, 07:20 PM
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jpthequilter
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Originally Posted by Charleen DiSante
was wondering about sand, what about rusting needles? I read somewhere about wool???
When I was living in Woburn for a while, I inherited an old, old tomato shaped pin cushion. One of the side seams started to give way, and so I took it apart. It was filled with fine sawdust and several hundred needles in it, that had gotten poked down too far over many many years.
Some of them were rusty, and some were not.
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