What You Need
- 1 mason jar (the kind with a two-piece lid)
- Fabric
- Hot-glue gun
- Polyester stuffing
How You Make It
- Cut a fabric circle that’s about 1 inch bigger all around than the lid of a mason jar.
- Separate the lid insert from the ring, and wrap the fabric around the lid insert. Make a partial ring of hot glue around the bottom edge of the lid insert, leaving a few inches glue-less. Carefully press the fabric onto the glue to secure it.
- Stuff polyester filling into the unglued opening until the fabric feels taut and cushiony, then finish gluing the fabric to the bottom.
- Reattach the ring and screw it onto the jar. (Add a dab or two of hot glue to the underside of the ring if the pincushion seems inclined to fall out when you unscrew it.)
- Now fill the jar with tiny scissors, thread, buttons, and safety pins — and stick your straight pins and needles in the top!
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Excerpted from Stitch Camp, © by Nicole Blum and Catherine Newman, photography by © Margaret Lampert, used with permission from Storey Publishing.
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