An interesting place for a pincushion
 

I wish I could remember where I saw this idea, but my memory is letting me down right now. Anyway, someone else deserves the credit for this. I call it a "pin pillow" because that's what it is shaped like. I used elastic to hold it in place, the original used two lengths of ribbon, tied in the back. I changed one other thing - instead of the usual "leave a small space to turn it inside-out," I left one long side completely open. After turning, I put a small piece of index card inside, along the back, to protect my machine. Then I stuffed it and sewed the top closed by hand, since there was an index card inside. The card may not be necessary since most of the pins will go in a downward direction, instead of toward the machine.

Naturally, since I use a Singer 500 (Rocketeer) I used a bit of fabric with a rocketship on it.

Tate

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Cool idea to pass on! I am going to have to make on of those for my machine.

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. :)

cute and very useful

great job and clever fabric choice

Excellent idea!I used to try to keep a pin cushion to the right of the presser foot but it was always in the way. This is my next fill in project. Thank you.

Such a cute idea and so useful!

What a great idea!

I've seen many old machines with "pin rash". They would just wrap a piece of flannel around the head and each pin would scrape the machine under the flannel.
But this is really the place where I would like to see a pin cushion. On the newer ones it could be on top just above the needle. I'm going to do that, someday, but I will but something hard at the bottom of my pincushion.