scrap buster.

Remember this pin cushion from the summer?

Today I made a few of these with my friend Jenn.

Since it's scrap buster month over at sewmamasew,

We're going to try to give a little tutorial .

How did we do IT?

9 patch with 2" squares.
Remember those bags of squares I have?
We were able to rescue these little squares
out of one of those bags.


Here's another 9 patch.

We trimmed the corners a little.



THEN.
3" strips for the petals.
We don't need anything fancy for the back of the petals
so we used muslin.
USE WHAT YOU HAVE!

Now that you have the front and back of your petals
put right sides together
cut eight 3" squares.




Sew along two adjoining sides.





Trim a little arch around that unsewn side.
Turn right side out.




Eight beautiful petals.


Press.




Sew a large running stitch along that unsewn edge.




Gather....but not too tight.

lay those petals onto the right side of your 9 patch.

baste them on along the edge there.

Here's the back of our pincushion.

I wanted blue.

so-o-o since my scrap was not big enough...

I added another piece of blue.

Nice, huh?


Lay that flower (petals will be on the inside) onto that backing.

sew. sew. sew.

I trimmed the back to match the front

AFTER I sewed them together.

You can do it before if you want. :)

BUT stop!

Leave a small opening for the filling!

Turn it right side out!

We're on the home stretch!

We filled our pin cushions with this.

I've used it before and am wondering

HOW many pincushions will this make?

There we are.

Ready to be closed up!

Take a needle and thread.

Careful!

Don't want that to spill all over!

Whip-stitch that opening closed.

You did it!

That's it.

And guess what?

It didn't even put a DENT in my scrap basket!