Better pincushion?
2 Jun 2023 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWax felt a burning need to spend her day off reorganizing all of our tools and materials from all the storage in the dining room. She got in the Zone and didn't stop until she was finished with all the storage in the room and the dinner was actually out of the oven.
She found a packet of steel wool, so after dinner I thought I'd do pincushion surgery. I took the pincushion, the packet of steel wool and some work gloves, a bit of batting, some scissors, and my knitting bag with my sewing kit in it. I thought I'd open the side seam partway, take out the filling and then put in the steel wool wrapped in batting. That would've been pretty quick. But looking at the pin cushion, I saw the white lacy edge around the bottom of it was stained with tea and there was a sort of discolored smudge on it.
I moved the pins and needles into a little ball of wool leftover from the socks I knitted recently, which took longer than I thought; then I snipped open and unraveled the seam holding the hemisphere top onto the flat round bottom. When I pulled out the stuffing I found about five more small needles lost inside, besides the ten or twelve that came out when I removed most of the glass-headed pins and flexed the cushion a bit. Then I snipped off the pink rose from the center top and turned it inside out, because the inside was much cleaner and brighter.
I rolled up a whole pad of steel wool and wrapped it up in a few layers of batting and I thought it would be too large, but once I had stuffed polyfill in around it, I realized it was actually too small, but also too densely packed. It shouldn't feel like you have to go halfway to the center before you hit the denser part, and the dense part shouldn't be hard enough that it's difficult to poke needles into it. The glass-headed pins go in easily enough because you've got a good site to grip, but without a thimble it's hard to push a small needle with force.
I sewed the pincushion back up with all the polyester that was in it before in addition to the steel wool and batting, which together feel like a little puck in the center of the squishy hemisphere of the pincushion. Then I sewed the pink rose on and then I added some more pink into it because it seemed too small and round, and then I spent quite some time putting all the pins and needles back. I'll try it like this a while, anyway, but maybe I'll still make another one if it turns out to be too annoying.
She found a packet of steel wool, so after dinner I thought I'd do pincushion surgery. I took the pincushion, the packet of steel wool and some work gloves, a bit of batting, some scissors, and my knitting bag with my sewing kit in it. I thought I'd open the side seam partway, take out the filling and then put in the steel wool wrapped in batting. That would've been pretty quick. But looking at the pin cushion, I saw the white lacy edge around the bottom of it was stained with tea and there was a sort of discolored smudge on it.
I moved the pins and needles into a little ball of wool leftover from the socks I knitted recently, which took longer than I thought; then I snipped open and unraveled the seam holding the hemisphere top onto the flat round bottom. When I pulled out the stuffing I found about five more small needles lost inside, besides the ten or twelve that came out when I removed most of the glass-headed pins and flexed the cushion a bit. Then I snipped off the pink rose from the center top and turned it inside out, because the inside was much cleaner and brighter.
I rolled up a whole pad of steel wool and wrapped it up in a few layers of batting and I thought it would be too large, but once I had stuffed polyfill in around it, I realized it was actually too small, but also too densely packed. It shouldn't feel like you have to go halfway to the center before you hit the denser part, and the dense part shouldn't be hard enough that it's difficult to poke needles into it. The glass-headed pins go in easily enough because you've got a good site to grip, but without a thimble it's hard to push a small needle with force.
I sewed the pincushion back up with all the polyester that was in it before in addition to the steel wool and batting, which together feel like a little puck in the center of the squishy hemisphere of the pincushion. Then I sewed the pink rose on and then I added some more pink into it because it seemed too small and round, and then I spent quite some time putting all the pins and needles back. I'll try it like this a while, anyway, but maybe I'll still make another one if it turns out to be too annoying.
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