Showing posts with label Pincushion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pincushion. Show all posts

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.