Tuesday, September 21, 2010

A lopsided pincushion...

I had a great time at the September meeting of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild last Thursday. Elizabeth did a great presentation about beer cup fabric dyeing and Jen did a cool presentation on pincushions. As usual there was a great show and tell.


Well, it turns out that at next month's meeting there will be a pincushion swap. So I decided that since I have not made a pincushion before I should try early in case I have to re-do it. Well, I have to re-do it. I named it the color wheel pincushion, and I like the overall look of it, but it turned out all lumpy and lopsided and not quite round. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

At least I now have a pincushion, I didn't have one before. This one should be happy on my little sewing desk. This is the bottom of it - reversible!

10 comments:

  1. Well, I like your lumpy little pin cushion. =) It really doesn't look so lumpy from here to tell you the truth. And ooo! Look! Green piping. =D

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  2. It's adorable! I love the color wheel idea.

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  3. I think it turned out really nice. I'm afraid of what a pincushion would look like if I attempted one. I'm not good at making anything that needs to be stuffed.

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  4. You are being too hard on yourself - it is very cute.

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  5. It's cute. You are being ridiculous!

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  6. Oh you guys, thanks! I really do like it, It's just not swappable. It's very happy on my sewing table. I'm going to practice with a few more before I decide on the design for the swap. Regina - I agree, I'm not good with stuffing either!

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  7. It looks great to me! I saw it in the Flickr group and was trying to figure out who made it. I'd be excited to receive that pincushion!

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  8. so cute... kind hate you right now... piping! way to raise the bar on the rest of us...

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  9. I LOVE your pincushion, Jill! Love the fabrics, colors, buttons, piping -- It makes me smile!

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