The well known needle pillow in a cup - now with treasure inside!
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While stumbling, I've come across these needle pillows in cups a few times. (Don't remember the links).
Thought I'd start making christmas gifts - to finish on time this year, so I made a needle pillow for my creative sewing friend.
After finishing I thought: "OH... I should have made a tutorial!"
I ended up making one more for the how-to :)
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Find a mocca cup you like.
Mine are from my childhood collection, but I've also seen them at flee markets and second hand stores. Price varies.
The saucer you can use to hold your handsoap near the sink.
Find some fabric that matches the cup.
The smaller the pattern the better it looks - in my opinion.
Draw a circle around the cup.
The circle should minimum have a diameter that is twice the cup's.
Cut out the circle.
Thread a needle and sew with loose stitches along the edge.
It doesn't have to look good, the stitches will be on the bottom of the pillow.
Pull the string, so it looks like this.
Now you can estimate wether the size of the pillow is correct.
(If it's too big, you'll have to sew a bit further from the edge of the circle.)
Stuff the damn thing :P
Close the hole and tie a knot.
Now, this should be, what you have.
Put the needle through the middle of the pillow - from the ugly to the pretty side.
Sew like this, to give it the pumpkin shape.
Sew the button on the top of the pillow.
Put the pillow in the cup.
Now you have 2 possibilities:
A) Glue the pillow on the edge of the cup, and you're done.
B) Turn the cup into a tiny treasure chest (se step 13).
Glue some ribbon onto the pillow and onto the cup just above the handle. This way you can lift up the pillow like a lid, and it can hold itself up by leaning on the handle.
To cover the bad looking bottom of the needle pillow, you can stitch on a little piece of fabric.
Store buttons, safety pins and other pretty, treasure-like stuff under the needles.
Enjoy :)
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queenfairypants
22 Sep 20:37
love it!
x
Hannah
23 Sep 11:33
ahhhh this an amazing idea for christmas pressie's thanks! x
Candice C.
23 Sep 12:40
my mom used to make something similar, which I had forgotten about until now - great idea with the storage underneath!
sugaree
23 Sep 15:05
i love the idea of hiding small treasures underneath! cute!
Emily
24 Sep 05:45
i love this!
BexBax
25 Sep 19:53
Thank you, girls :)
Pre-heated-death
16 Nov 07:24
This is too cute!
Max
14 Jan 20:22
Cute idea, I will try this tomorrow. (: