Quilted pin cushion

How many pin cushions is it wrong for a person to own?!! I already have two pin cushions that I've made previously but couldn't resist making this one from the Quilting in No Time book by Emma Hardy. What a delightful idea! They're made out of six different materials. We didn't manage to line up all the points of the triangles exactly but fortunately, we could hide that fact!

We stuffed the pin cushions fairly firmly and hand stitched the gap closed. Next came the embroidery thread and good sturdy doll needles! Doll needles are longer, stronger and have a nice pointy end - unlike wool needles that I've used in the past that have a much blunter end. As you kept going up through the middle all the time, it got harder and harder to pull the needle through, then you had to pull the thread quite hard to pull the pin cushion in.

The rosette on the top was a neat idea. Just a circle of material, slip stitched around the outside and then, the cotton was pulled tight, forming a rosette (reminded me of a shower cap!). The button on top, hid the middle of the rosette and we loved the overall effect.

To make life harder for ourselves, we decided to sew a smaller button on the underneath at the same time, to hide our imperfections! Trying to sew up through the middle, through the top button, back down and through the bottom button etc was a little challenging, especially as the middle had already been sewn through a zillion times already with embroidery thread! It was a little congested to say the least!