Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Out With The Old...

...In the with new! In this case, pincushions!

 
 I made this lovely cactus a few years ago, but it's starting to get a little beat up. FACT: I am very clumsy. I've dropped the poor thing so many times, the bottom of the plastic pot it's in is cracked, and the rocks I used to weigh it down have been falling out.
 

 
Having replanted my Valentine's Day rose plant a few weeks ago, I decided the pot it can in would be perfect for a new pincushion. It's very cute and has sentimental value, so it needed a special use.
 
I had a hard time deciding which fabric to use. I wanted that to be special too, and not just something that happened to coordinate with the color scheme or anything (I don't really know how to match colors anyway). I chose my favorite fabric, one that I usually fall back on when I can't make up my mind. Strawberries are always cute. Someday I want to have about 50 different matryoshka fabrics as well.

 

 Hopefully I won't drop this one. Something I like about it is that if the cushion gets beat up it'll be easy to replace it. I don't know what I'm going to do with my faithful cactus, but I'm certainly not throwing it out.
 
 
 

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