My favourite looks like a dome and is filled with something kind of soft - I think it must be poly batting. It was made for me by someone on this board. It seems it's always in the wrong spot; over at the pinning table when I'm sewing or by the machine when I'm pinning. I was gifted a second pin cushion but it has embroidery on it which makes it hard to push pins through so I have to watch where I put the pins, a seemingly small thing to do but one more thing when zooming through a project. I also have a magnetic bowl but don't like it as well. Truthfully, I still don't have what I would consider the "perfect" pin cushion.