Do you use pincushions?
#51
For the past year I have been admiring the pincushions everyone makes. I print the directions and have them stacked up. So far haven't made one. Just need to take a morning and get started. I did buy one at Jinny Beyer's Studio- and need to find it in the sewing room!!!
#52
I LOVE pincushions! I make them, collect them,display them and use them! I found one in a drawer in my beloved Gram's 1924 Treadle that I am blessed to have. I found 3 in my d mil's hope chest after she passed that no one else wanted. I have had a few people give me some really cute ones, and then I have made several. I always use a pincushion, I even made myself a wrist pincushion and use it all the time. I have at least 1 beside each of my machines, and a couple on my cutting table and ironing board. LOVE THEM! giggle
#53
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
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I have two magnetic bowls and a pin cushion that my daughter made me when she was in grade school. I will never use that. It's for show only. I would love to make a few pin cushions, but am hesitant. I need to go and check out some sites and get the right materials and try making a couple of them. I think it would be fun. I threw away my old pin cushions years ago when I bought my magentic bowls. Shame on me.
#55
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Location: Indiana
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I don't like pin cushions. I have several now but I rarely use them. They never seemed safe to me to have around my children. I like my pins in a tin just like my mom and my Mammaw.
I keep those I use for my quilting machine in a magnetic screw dish my husband got at work. Like someone else said, they are all lined up. When I am done with those they are put up with the machine. No chance of little hands ever bothering them.
Since people keep giving them to me I have decided to put them out as decoration with OUT any pins.
I keep those I use for my quilting machine in a magnetic screw dish my husband got at work. Like someone else said, they are all lined up. When I am done with those they are put up with the machine. No chance of little hands ever bothering them.
Since people keep giving them to me I have decided to put them out as decoration with OUT any pins.
#56
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but the cats, well that was another story.
#59
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Location: League City, Texas
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I love pin cushions. The ideal thing for your long arm is the magnetic bowl that car mechanics use. I have two of them. I got them at WalMart in the autimotive section for $6.00 ea. They are very strong will hold tight to the bars or table of your long arm even through the canvas. The dealer I bought my longarm told me about them and they are great. I also love the decorative pin cushions. I have one that looks like a big stuffed chair and the seat actually raises to put thing in it then I have a fuzzy high heal stellot that is just for looks and the smaller magnetic ones. One is on my cutting table, the other on my sewing table.
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