Originally Posted by
seasaw2mch
I start working on a quilt that will be all hand sewn and it's unbelievable how much my mind wanders on things while I'm doing this.
So while sewing today it dawned on me how all the pincushions today are made from all sorts of things, like batting, walnut shells, straw and all the many other things that go into them.
What is so strange is that over the many years (about 50) that I've been sewing, I have always hear that if your sewing needle gets a little dull you can poke it into a wad of extra fine steel wool and it will sharpen it. SO that got me to thinking.
Why aren't they made with the steel wool in them so you will be sharpening the needles every time you stick it in the pincushion?
I'm think about making one stuffed with the extra fine steel wool and see how it works out.
What's you thought on the subject?
I was thinking about this very thing over the weekend!!! How eerie is that??!! I am going to make some pincushions and I have already decided that I am going to stuff them with steel wool. I thought about he steel wool fibers sticking thru the outer fabric and thought I would encase the steel wool in some muslin then put it into my pincushion.