My new Prettified Pincushion is one of my final completed projects for 2021. It’s a great introduction to foundation paper piecing and the size is perfect as a pincushion or a pattern weight. I’ve had a copy of Ayumi Takahashi’s Patchwork Please! for quite some time, and have wanted to make the pincushion featured on …
As long as I’ve been sewing, I’ve never had a strawberry emery! An emery pincushion is filled with emery powder, which is essentially aluminum oxide. It can remove tarnish from pins and needles as well as polish them. The ubiquitous tomato pincushion will often have a small strawberry emery attached to it. You can learn …