This thread just flooded me with memories of my great-grandmother who taught me to sew (i was named after her)!! We were called Big-Leona and Little-Leona, but I called her Grandma Precious. She was always making pin cushions and including them in homemade gift baskets she would give to her friends and family member for birthdays etc. She would use the lid/top to I think it was arisol (spelling?) hair spray cans. They were pink and made out of plastic. She would sew fabric and stuff it into a round half-dome shape for the pin cushion part and then glue it to the open side of the lid, and then glue lace around the perimeter where the fabric met the lid. It was a pin cushion and it looked like a frilly cupcake!!! I remember her using hair to stuff some of them. I totally forgot all about that until I read the post about the hair!
Remembering that has made my day!!