Friday, June 25, 2010

Of Pincushions...

The other day I suddenly realized that I didn't own a pincusion.  It's bad enough that I went out and bought the very worst pins in the world when I was in Tel Aviv a few weeks ago (they are so thin and have a tiny head) and I was finding it very difficult to keep track of them when I was doing some repairs on the girls clothes.

So, in my Google-way, I did a search for *how to make a pincushion*... WOW !!

After the results came in, I started gathering up the supplies I needed for the first one.  I made a pincushion that was suppose to be worn on my left wrist, but I couldn't thread the sewing needle to sew the elastic strap on it.  The pincushion ended up being desktop and cute.

Then I started looking at the different empty glass jars I've been saving for some time and I decided to make a jar-top pincushion next.  Well, let me tell you, it's not easy to make something stick to the top of a glass jar.  I used every glue-product available until I found the good ol' white plastic glue of my youth.  It did the trick !!!  Everything stuck to the top of the glass jar.

Now I'm on a quest to make as many pincushions as I can possibly make, for gifts and sale.  They are so much fun to make and even more fun to get to the point where I can actually stick pins in them !!

I'll post lots of links to pincushion-making-sites in another blog post.


Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Adding the different services STICHES provides

Yesterday, June 21st, I added the different pages on the blog regarding all the different services that STITCHES provides.

It is my hope that in time, the blog will keep growing and that navigation will be easy for all site visitors.