Tea cup pincushion came home!
09-30-2012, 07:11 AM
#32
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tea cup pincusion
This morning I was getting ready to go to with DH to a flea market about an hour and half away. I picked up a bag of knitting and there was the pincushion in the bottom of the bag under some baby caps. I had decided that it had run away for ever but it came home. I had had a make-up quilting class on Thursday afternoon after my knitting class on Thursday morning. I had put the pincushion in the knitting bag when I took it from the car. I just didn't remember that I had taken it on Thursday! I would have found it next week when I got ready for the knitting class. Being an obsessive compulsive personality, I can't just ride in a car. I have to do something with my hands. The blue cup normally sits on my desk by my bed. The gold/white cup stays on the cutting table, and the pink on lives by the sewing machine.
09-30-2012, 07:21 AM
#33
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OMG! That blue cup is just like some I had. Fond memories. I got the whole set of dishes with S&H green stamps around 1975. I think I sold them at a garage sale back in the '80s because I got tired of blue. (But I still love blue so not sure what I was thinking) Love your pin cushions!
09-30-2012, 09:44 AM
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I have made a couple of the pincushion using the cup and saucers. I was lucky to find a couple of the cup and saucer sets with the saucer being larger to hold your cookies etc on it. I used these and they are wonderful to use in the sewing area. There is extra room for your other notions.
09-30-2012, 11:13 AM
#37
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Lovely teacups and a great idea to make use of the pretties. I have decided to do this with a few that I inherited --- going to use the florist clay that is waterproof to gob the cup to the saucer and then will make a snug cushion using wool roving to stuff it and probably use a bit of candle snugger wax to attach it to the cup. I think this way the cups will be usable for their original intent if desired down the road. At almost 60 I am trying to think of ways my family heirlooms might be useful as well as decorative and other people may repurpose them later. With glue I might be committing the cup to the trash bin as not everyone in the family sews.
09-30-2012, 11:25 AM
#38
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Love the use of a teacup as a pincushion! I have teacups from aunts on both sides of the family. The look pretty sitting in a cupboard...but it would be nice to have one out to use a pincushion too. Will have to decide which one to use, then wait for your tutorial. Thanks for doing one!
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