pincushions

Tools for Textiles – pins and pincushions

today’s post is about key tools for any kind of textiles craft: pins and pincushions. I’m sharing my collection with you today and you will discover that I have a particular fondness for pincushions. Let’s start with this charming pincushion, made for me by my quilting friend Gillian: This is a large, stable pincushion thatContinueContinue reading “Tools for Textiles – pins and pincushions”

In the early part of this year, I wrote an article for Popular Patchwork magazine about ‘Pins in the Sewing room’. I use a wide variety of different pins and am fond of my various pincushions, like the one below which I made years ago from a needlepoint piece based on a William Morris strawberryContinueContinue reading “Pincushions”