It's that time of the week again! How excited are you? Are your crafty hands tingling yet?
I recently found this during one of my many scavenger hunts...online.
Take a gander at this Ring Pincushion Tutorial found on A Foothill Home Companion.
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DIY Ring Pincushion
Materials:
Small scrap of material
Plastic bottle cap
Stuffing
Short piece of elastic
Needle and thread
Scissors
Step 1: Cut a circle from a piece of fabric. I used the top of a pint glass for a template. The rim of a large coffee cup would work just as well.
Step 2: Make a smooth, rounded, dense ball of batting/stuffing and push it into a plastic bottle cap.
Step 3: Fold the edge of the fabric circle over about 1/8 of an inch and sew a running stitch all the way around the circle.
Step 4: Place the plastic bottle cap, stuffing face down, into the middle of the circle and pull the running stitch tight to enclose the cap in the fabric circle. Anchor with a few stitches and a knot.
Step 5: Cut a short piece of elastic, long enough to go around your finger and overlap by 1/2 inch (my elastic measured three inches). Form a circle, overlapping ends by 1/2 inch, and sew the ends together with a running stitch.
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What's so great about this is most if not all of the materials are probably already a part of your supplies!
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So my amazing other half was sweet enough to buy me the most fabulous cell phone cover my phone has ever been encased by! It came in the mail today and I was oh so excited almost too excited for a cell phone cover. In any event, here it is, in all it's dazzling glory!
We'll see how long it stays on my phone, the MyTouch Slide cases have a tendency to break and break amazingly quickly, time will tell!
So cute!!! I'm always losing my needles and it's adorable ;)
ReplyDeleteAw, that ring pin cushion is so cute and your bedazzled cell cover is gorgeous!! xxx
ReplyDeleteThat is very cute (both of them) -- vintage glam at its best.
ReplyDeleteI love that tutorial and also the fabric you chose--also the bass clef tattoo! are you a musician?
ReplyDelete@Janet - Yes! I play the piano and sing (the singing is mostly in my car/shower nowadays) and I have a treble clef on my other wrist :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a CUTE DIY! Love this! Also - the fact that you can put it on your finger? Genius!!!
ReplyDeletewell hello there - i'm now following your right back! love the wrist tattoo. :)
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute idea! I must make one this week :)
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