Towards the end of September I got together with Susie, my friends, Ivete and Andrea, owners of the brand new online fabric store
Gotham Quilts - (if you haven't visited their website I highly recommend you head over there, as soon as you've finished reading this of course!) and Nancy to celebrate Nancy's birthday. Anyone who frequents
The City Quilter knows Nancy - she's the store's resident fabric guru, doll maker and felting genius, in fact, there's not much that's crafty she's not a guru on!
I trimmed a hand towel with this fussy cut section of Petite Odile fabric - don't you just love the vintage costumes and toys?; and
I made this finger pin cushion.
Nancy loved her gifts and especially the finger pin cushion - in fact, everyone loved the finger pin cushion so I thought I'd share how to make one, they're sooooo easy - like 15 mins max!
Finger Pin Cushion Tute
- Right sides together fold in half diagonally.
- Using a 1/4" seam stitch along two raw edges leaving a small gap for turning and stuffing.
- Turn and stuff and hand stitch gap closed.
- Pull the two longest points round to meet each other and overlap slightly - good to try on your finger at this point to see how far to overlap these two points. You can custom make a perfect fit though it's not essential, it can be a kind of 'one size fits most' project.
- Hand stitch overlapped points into place.
Go on make a whole bunch and see if you get the 'I have to have one' reaction I did!
Happy Birthday Nancy :D
Here's another one I made too - small prints are so cute on these finger pincushions. You can see more pics
here
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