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Flower Pot Pincushion

I thought I’d try to make one of the little pincushions in a flower pot that I’ve seen lately. It requires no sewing! Ha, but you probably won’t want to make one of these unless you like to sew. I added a little felt flower (like the hair clips I wrote about in my last post) and a button. And I used this Liberty of London fabric again. There’s still some left, so you’re sure to see it more!

Supplies:

  • small flower pot
  • fabric scrap
  • polyfill stuffing
  • hot glue gun
  • rubber band

  1. Cut fabric about three times the width of the top of your pot. My pot was 4″, so I cut a 12″ square.
  2. Place some polyfill in the center and wrap loosely with a rubber band.
  3. Continue stuffing with polyfill (as much as you possibly can, and then some).
  4. Wrap rubber band around a few more times to tighten it.
  5. Adjust fabric evenly and try it out in the pot.
  6. Glue all around the inside of the pot, about an inch from the top. Quickly stuff in your fabric.

All done! If you make one of these, be sure to post a photo over in the Make it Monday Flickr photo pool. Check out these flower pot pincushions from Betz White for some more inspiration.

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Felt Hair Clips

More hair accessories. Whew, those are bright! I sewed some more of these flower hair clips for the girls (with the embroidery machine). This is a design that I created last year for my Etsy shop.

And then I took my owl design and shrunk it down. But I think I need to try another color for these, because this is just about the color of their hair. Since I am lazy, I just glued these onto the clips, which seems to actually work pretty well.

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Knitted Blankets

I’m not much of a knitter. I started this blanket for my younger daughter about three years ago. The unfortunate thing is that I used #6 needles and cast on 200 stitches or something ridiculous. The blanket was left in an odd long rectangular shape, so I cast off, cut it in half (by sewing a zig-zag stitch over some bias tape before cutting) and made two blankets for the girls, backed with this Liberty of London fabric. My kids are three and five, but still sleep with their blankies, so here are two more. At least this project is done!

These turned out a bit wonky, so I’m definitely not one to give instructions on how to sew knitted material to cotton fabric. But there’s a nice blog post from the purl bee addressing the subject.

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Fabric Mat

I had a small piece of this great fabric from Cicada Studio, so decided to make a fabric mat.  I read these instructions, but used the mat that came with the frame, then just used spray adhesive and tape to affix the fabric to the mat.  Once I made the mat, I wasn’t sure what to put in the frame that wouldn’t look too busy because the fabric is really beautiful all on its own.  Then I saw these bird silhouettes (via how about orange).  I used a robin for this silhouette that I made by drawing an image onto card stock and cutting it out with a craft knife.

And our five-year-old has become very interested in the different species of birds after reading this book.  So she’s planning a watercolor project.  We’re definitely on the bird bandwagon.