tate ..i love your avatar & now i love your pincushion. i also love pincushions of all kinds and search the internet looking for ideas & patterns. i've seen several versions of this style. will be making some for my machines when other projects ending. i was going to insert a piece of cardboard in ones i plan to make. i made wrist pincushions for my grand daughters & i last year. used the cardboard from cereal boxes so that they didn't get hurt in the stabbing exuberance.