This sturdy pincushion has plenty of space to store pins and a felt strip for your hand sewing needles. The hanging pocket is the perfect place for storing easily-misplaced tools like seam rippers, embroidery scissors, and thread snips, and the detachable scrap bag helps keep your workspace clean.
Because the pincushion is weighted with uncooked rice, it can perch easily on the edge of a table or the arm or a chair or sofa.
This is an update of this project (free tutorial)
This project is made with three print fabrics and one solid fabric. I used three prints from Monica Solorio-Snow’s Sew Yummy collection for Cloud 9 Fabrics. My solid fabric is Robert Kaufman’s Essex yarn-dyed linen blend in Steel. For
best results, use quilting or similar mid-weight cotton and linen fabrics.
The pieces you will need from each fabric can be easily cut from fat quarters (18” x 21” each).
Materials
Print Fabric A
1 piece 5” x 5” for Pincushion Top
1 piece 9” x 14” for Scrap Bag Lining
Print Fabric B
1 piece 5” x 5” for Pincushion Top
1 piece 7-1/2” x 11-3/4” for Pocket Lining
Print Fabric C
1 piece 7-1/2” x 11-3/4” for Pocket Exterior
1 piece 1-1/2” x 10” for Hanging Loop*
Solid Fabric
1 piece 9” x 14” for Scrap Bag Exterior
2 pieces 2-1/2” x 9” for Scrap Bag Facing*
2 pieces 3” x 10-1/2” for Pincushion Bottom
*If desired, back these pieces with lightweight fusible interfacing.
White Flannel
1 piece 9” x 9” for Weight Bag
2 pieces 5” x 5” for Pincushion Top
Wool Felt
1 piece 2-1/2” x 5” for Pincushion Top
Other Materials
Polyester Fiberfill or similar stuffing material
1-1/4 C Uncooked Rice or similar weighting material
1” Button
Fabric Marking Tool
MAKE THE SCRAP BAG
STEP 1 With right sides together, fold the Scrap Bag Exterior in half, matching 9” sides, which will be the top of the bag. Sew the sides of the bag using a 1/2” seam allowance.
STEP 2 Clip the bottom corners (near the fold) and press the side seams open.
STEP 3 Open up one bottom corner to a point, as shown in Fig. 1. Measure and mark a line perpendicular to the side seam and 1-1/2” from the point.
Sew along the marked line and trim away excess fabric to leave a 1/2” seam allowance. Repeat this process with the other bottom corner.
STEP 4 Repeat steps 1 - 3 with the Scrap Bag Lining, this time using a 5/8” seam allowance to sew the side seams.
STEP 5 With wrong sides together, match the bottoms of the Scrap Bag Exterior and Scrap Bag Lining, as shown in Fig. 2. Sew together the seam allowances, matching the seam allowance on one side of the bag exterior to the corresponding seam allowance of the bag lining. (Doing this will ensure that the bag lining is always anchored to the bottom of the bag.)
STEP 6 Turn the bag and lining right side out, keeping the bag exterior on the outside. Baste through all layers around the top of the bag. Fig. 3.
STEP 7 Sew together the Scrap Bag Facing pieces using a 1/2” seam allowance and matching right and short sides. Fold the facing (which is now a closed loop) 1/2” toward the wrong side and press.
STEP 8 Fit the facing around the top of the scrap bag, matching raw edges, as shown in Fig. 4. Sew the facing to the bag using a 1/2” seam allowance.
STEP 9 Turn the facing to the inside of the bag and press. Edgestitch through all layers, around the top of the bag and around the bottom of the facing, as shown in Fig. 5.
STEP 10 Hand sew the button to the center of the facing on one side of the bag. (If your bag has a definite front and back, sew the button to the facing on the inside of the bag back.)
MAKE THE POCKET PANEL
STEP 1 Place the right sides of the Pocket Exterior and Pocket Lining together and sew around the sides and bottom using a 1/4” seam allowance. Fig. 1
STEP 2 Clip corners. Turn the pocket right side out and press.
STEP 3 Place the pocket on your work surface with the lining side facing up. Fold the bottom of the pocket up (toward the front) 3-1/2” and press.
STEP 4 Edgestitch through all layers around the sides and bottom of the pocket. Sew through all layers to divide the pocket into spaces for storing tools. You can divide up the pocket however you like. I recommend using your own tools as a guide. Fig. 2
STEP 5 Press the Hanging Loop in half along the long side, placing wrong sides together. Bring both long sides in to the center fold and press again, creating a piece of fabric tape with no raw edges except on the short ends.
STEP 6 Edgestitch along both long sides of the Hanging Loop. Fold the loop in half as shown in Fig. 3 and sew across the long side of the folded triangle to hold the loop in place.
STEP 7 Sew the Hanging Loop to the top of the Pocket, lining it up about 1” from the left side. Fig. 4
MAKE THE PINCUSHION
STEP 1 Fold the 9” x 9” flannel Weight Bag piece in half and sew around two sides using a 1/2” seam allowance. Use the open end to fill the bag with about 1-1/4 C uncooked rice. Use pins to hold back the rice and sew closed the open end, again using a 1/2” seam allowance. Clip corners. Fig. 1
STEP 2 Place one of the Pincushion Bottom pieces on your work surface and center the Pocket on top, as shown in Fig. 2. Sew the pieces together, using a 1/2” seam allowance.
STEP 3 Place the second Pincushion Bottom piece on top of the first, as shown in Fig. 3. Sew the Pincushion Bottom pieces together, using a 1/2” seam allowance and leaving a 4-1/2” opening for turning.
STEP 4 Press the seam open to make something that looks like Fig. 4.
STEP 5 Place a 5” x 5” piece of flannel on the wrong side of one of the 5” x 5” Pincushion Top pieces. Sew the pieces together, either by basting around the edges or by “quilting” in a regular pattern through all layers. (I sewed an on-point grid of 1/2” squares.)
STEP 6 Repeat Step 5 with the other 5” x 5” Pincushion Top flannel and fabric pieces.
STEP 7 Sew the Pincushion Top pieces to the left and right sides of the 2-1/2” x 5” piece of wool felt using a 1/2” seam allowance and pressing the seams toward the felt. Fig. 5.
MAKE THE PINCUSHION (CONT.)
STEP 8 With right sides together, and being careful to keep the pocket out of the way, sew together the Pincushion Top and Pincushion Bottom using a 1/2” seam allowance. Fig. 6.
STEP 2 Clip the corners and turn the pincushion right side out. It should now look roughly like Fig. 7.
STEP 3 Stuff the pincushion with a couple of handfuls of fiberfill, carefully pushing the fill out to each corner. Fill the pincushion loosely, leaving room for the Weight Bag.
STEP 4 Carefully feed the Weight Bag through the opening in the pincushion. You may need to do a little adjusting to get everything to fit just right.
STEP 5 Hand sew the opening closed. (This part won’t show, so aim for sturdy, rather than invisible stitches!)
STEP 6 Use the Loop to attach the Scrap Bag to the Pincushion. Enjoy your finished pincushion!
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