What about Rheema?: My Day Has Come

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

My Day Has Come

Finally! Today is my day for the Pin It blog hop!

First a big thanks to Madamme Sam for hosting, and to Kristen our ever present cheerleader. Also to the wonderful sponsors for this hop.

PBTex Collection and Bird Brain Designs

After day number one I was awestruck at the creativity displayed, and all the wonderful projects. Over at Susie's World we got a history lesson about pin cushions. Thank you so much for sharing the information. Explains why the Tomato pin cushion is so popular still.

I collect vintage sewing machines and it breaks my heart to see these beautiful machines which have all their gorgeous decals worn off over the years of use due to "Pin Rash".

See all the scratches, and most of the designs along the head are missing. It is a beautiful machine, with the Sphinx decals. That is because it was very common for women to wrap some thick clothe around the machine and as they sewed take the pins out and stick them into the fabric.


No this is not my machine

I have several pincushions floating around my house so as not to destroy my machines in that manner.

I have my traditional tomato pincushion that I have had for 40+ years. It came in my sewing kit my mother bought me when I was learning to sew.

This homely pin keep I made my grandmother when I was young from some left over double knit fabric, two jar rings, a Styrofoam ball cut in half, some fiberfill, and a curtain ring, and ugly gold rick rack. When she passed away my father returned it to me. This is how it was returned to me obviously she used it often, there are threads, yarns, pins, sewing machine needles, different types of needles, and corsage pins all stuck into it. I truly treasure that ugly little thing.

I saw a pattern on Pinterest and thought what a wonderful idea. I have a tiny square of this fabric that was found in my scrap box from Aunt Beth's mother. I have no idea what it is but I adore it. Sew I wanted to make something with it that I would keep for myself. The fabric is the center of the star.

It was supposed to be a folded star and it was supposed to be all hand sewn. That did not work at all for me. After ripping it out more time than I care to talk about, I made the folded star and machine sewed around each and every star point as I placed them on the backing fabric. I also did not like that it was flat I wanted something a bit more substantial. I made a pack out two circles of batting, and filled it with batting sewed the top to it.

I then made a circle out of one of the fabrics and a cardboard circle slightly smaller. Stitched about 1/4 inch around the fabric, centered the cardboard in the middle and pulled up to make a nice "flat bottom" so it would sit nice, well kinda sorta.. can't get much out of a tree stump for a flat surface. I then measured around the outer edge of the circle and cut a strip of fabric 2 inches by the measurement. I machine sewed it around the top, but had to hand stitch the bottom, leaving a tiny opening. I then stuffed it with more fiberfill, to make it big and substantial poofy and sewed it shut.

I was pleased with how it turned out. (The turtle and bricks were found when digging the post holes for the new porch).

My second project was actually two projects. Fall is my favorite time of year and so of course I had to have something with a fall theme. I have had this pattern so long I cannot find where I obtained it originally. A Big thanks to Thearica she found the post and here is the linky Pumpkin Pincushions. Anyway while digging through my scrap bin I found fabric from a purse I made for the middle daughter a few years ago, and since her birthday was on the way I wanted to make her a little something.

Sorry it is difficult to see his cute little leaf. The celestial fabric was from the purse I made years ago and I had enough to make 3 sections with it. Just a little stick for the stem. Every girl needs a pincushion in their house. Especially a pumpkin pin cushion!

I also made myself one. Love the leaf pattern fabric with the gold, and of course there is the obligatory polka dot, and love the white and orange stripes. I was having so much fun making these and of course DH insisted he contribute a stick for the stem which was "a perfect pumpkin stem shape."

I can use it to decorate or for a fall touch in my sewing room. And of course to keep some pins.

I now have a plethora of additional ideas that I want to make for gifts, and to repurpose some old treasures.

Now hop on over to see the rest of today's creations from all of these fabulous ladies.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

My Day Has Come

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