My new love of Pinterest has inspired a LOT of sewing. Which is weird, since I’m not too good at sewing. But thanks to some really detailed blog tutorials with lots of pictures, I have gotten the hang of this “threading the sewing machine” thing and “not cursing at the bobbin” thing. (Okay, I still curse at the bobbin.)
Anyway, I did end up making some fun camera strap covers:
And I plan on making more of these for friends and a few other things for fun. Along the way, I lost my pin cushion. Quite often, actually. So when I was sewing stuff and taking pins out as I went, I found myself wishing that I had a pin cushion actually attached to the machine so I wouldn’t keep losing them.
So I put one on!
All you need for this tutorial is a tiny scrap of cute fabric, a small strip of velcro (if you want the pin cushion to be removable), and one of these cheap little wrist pin cushions:
Take the wrist thing off – mine just slipped right out the little pocket.
Wrap your cheap fabric around the little pin cushion and secure with glue (I used fabric fuse on this step, actually):
Then glue the fuzzy velcro strip to your new cute pin cushion.
Then glue the matching velcro strip to the sewing machine (I wanted mine to be on the side):
Optional step: When hot gluing the velcro on, burn the EVER-LIVING CRAP out of three fingers, leaving one with a giant blister. Scream in pain, causing your husband to jump up out of his chair yelling “WHAT’S WRONG!? WHAT’S WRONG!?” and rush you to the sink, where he will make you stick your hand under the cold water while reassuring the now-nervous always-neurotic dog that you are, in fact, okay.
Crafting is a contact sport.
And after it dries, just stick it on!
Voila! Convenient and cute too!
