I finally have a updated version of my pincushion tutorial for you guys so it's gonna follow I have pictures with a voiceover and it's hopefully a little bit more condensed and has a few tips and tricks in it so it's updated from the one I did oh I must have been a year or two ago and I'm gonna put the old one below the old one is longer and it but it does have some actual video footage of me making the pin cushion which is might be helpful but I'm hoping that the following pictures along with the voiceover that you guys will get the gist of how to make these so this is the one that I made in the video this starts off with a five and a half inch circle and it is it ends up being just under or just about four inches across this one here is teeny tiny this one is three inches across and I started with a four and a half inch circle and I am actually contemplating selling these two as a set I was going to sell them individually but they coordinate I'd really like to see them go to a home together I just have to figure out exactly how I'm going to do that so but in any case I hope you guys like the following tutorial let me know if it's helpful for you guys and have a super great day bye bye okay so the first thing we're gonna do is cut to five and a half inch circles and we're gonna take those and place them with right sides together and Stitch a half inch from the outside border all the way around leaving a little opening and you can do this you can absolutely do this with hand stitching I've done it that way just make sure you use small stitches or you can use this sewing machine but in either case you want to make sure you back stitch by the little hole so that when you stuff it you don't have any problems with your stitching coming apart and once you get it all stitched it's kind of difficult to see in this picture but you want to take a very sharp pair of scissors and make little snips about an inch apart all the way around so that when we turn it inside out that we have a nice that helps the circle lay a nice and smooth and to turn it around I actually had a very small opening on this one but you just want to put your finger in the little hole and go all the way down to the pot bottom and grab a little piece of the fabric and pull it through and then you just start wiggling it through and it will turn itself around once you do that you want to take some type of long instrument a paintbrush or a pen and really put it inside the pincushion and really smooth out that seam and then the next thing you want to do and I always forget to do this and it's really a pain if you forget to do this later mark off right now where the exact center of both sides are so that when we start stitching our quadrants later that we know where the center of the cushion is so just mark that off you're going to cover it up so it doesn't matter you can do it with a permanent marker so here's my hole and I'm gonna start stuffing again this is a tiny bit smaller than I would normally make but it will work out just fine this is the stuffing I use it is 100% polyester fiberfill it works really well and that you can come hacked it really tight inside of the pincushion and what I've found is one of my tips because I do have arthritis and this is one of my problems with making these initially is that I use a paintbrush that is old and has some really stiff brush bristles and what that will do is it'll grab the polyfill and really help you stop it into the pincushion so this part it takes a little bit of time you want to get as much of the fiberfill in the cushion as you can so once you think it's full you want to take your finger or the paintbrush and really compact the fiberfill and then add some more and you want to do that four or five times into you can really get no more fiberfill inside the pincushion and that'll just help it look really nice and full and hold up well in the end and then we are going to when you get it really full you just kind of compact it one more time grab with your fingers pinch the hole close and you want to sew it shut and it it really doesn't have to look pretty we're going to cover this up with some trim so you can use a whip stitch you just want to kind of keep your stitches close together so that you don't have any fiberfill coming out and I go down the opening and then I come back so it's that is stitched twice and it should stay closed now nicely so here is our pink ocean and we have our Center March but before we start sewing our quadrants we want to tack on some trim and I do this with a hot glue gun you want to use just a tiny little bit of hot glue this our when we do our stitching of our quadrants that's what's really going to hold our trim down we don't really have to worry about it coming off so right now we just want to get our trim adhered on there so we don't have to worry about it as we're doing the quadrants you want to make sure that your trim is pretty taut nice and tight there aren't any gaps because once you pull your quadrants with your thread if you have gaps in your trim it's really going to show so that's really the only thing here that part's pretty easy just get it tacked on there and the next thing we're gonna do is use a couple of buttons to help us so our quadrants and this will keep using these buttons will help keep your fabric from tearing as you're pulling the quadrants as you're pulling the thread over the quadrants because you have to pull it really tight so we're gonna cover up these buttons later with some decorative buttons or whatever you would like to cover them with so it you know it doesn't really matter they don't have to match perfectly but you want to take four yards of button thread or heavy-duty thread that you can really pull on and is not gonna break I find that the button craft thread works the best I've never broken it even some of the heavy-duty threads I've broken it pulling the quadrants closed so I do recommend the crafting button thread you want to start with four yards so that you have enough to do all eight quadrants at once and you're going to tie a knot leaving several inches at the end because you're gonna be using that tail to make to tie off several sections but you're gonna run your needle up and down one side of the button and then through right prior to your knot you're gonna run it through so that you've secured your thread to your button I hope that makes sense and then we're going to start sewing our quadrants so you're gonna go down through the button all the way through your cushion and come out the center on the other side this side can be or this can be tricky right here because your cushion is so thick at this point so if you have somebody around to help you squeeze the cushion as you're doing this part that would be helpful but the goal here is to get these button on both sides and pull it back through and tie it off and have it be I guess it's just possible in the center because that's gonna help you make your quadrants you know it's gonna make it easier to make the quadrants so you want to pull it through and just tie it off really really nice and tight and you're gonna tie a knot and then you're gonna start going over round and making your quadrants and the very first one I like to pull the thread around where my trim is overlapping or where my two pieces of trim come together I do overlap the trims and then I hope you can see here I'm pulling the thread very close to the end of that and that's gonna really help secure that tightly so that it doesn't come undone so I pull around one side and then I'm going to pull around a hundred and eighty degrees from that and then I'm going to tie that off with a knot and you have to pull really tight again if you have a second pair of hands around if somebody can help you that makes this a lot easier it's a little tricky to do by yourself but it can be done I did this one by myself so you want to pull that really tight and get a knot tied there with the tail of the end of your thread so that you can go on to your next quadrant and at this point you have a lot of thread because you started with four yards doubled so you're you're pulling two yards through there just take your time because your thread can get you know knotted up so just take your time as you're doing this part so we're gonna do the same thing we're gonna go the other half way around and you're gonna do two more around one way and around the other way and then we're going to tie that off again so and right now we have four quadrants and then we're going to split each of those four quadrants going around and around again each side tying it off in a knot and then you're gonna do your your final round and now you have eight quadrants I hope that makes sense and like I said I have a video my old old video below which is more detailed than actually has some video of me doing parts of this but I think I think you guys probably are getting what I mean now at this point you do not want to cut those threads you don't want to cut those threads until we have all of our embellishments on at the very very end because you you want to sew your embellishments on whenever possible so this is what it looks like on the opposite side and so I picked out a couple buttons here this one I actually went up and down underneath my quad my my quadrants where I have the thread and I adhered this button with the same binding but before I actually took it off here because I'm like oh I want to sew my button on the other side so I went back through my pin cushion with the needle through the buttons and make sure you use all of the different four holes in the button if you go through one one hole you know too many times it the thread will start getting caught but I sewed the the button on the bottom and then came back through to the top and again I adhered this button on the top because when I adhered it with the thread it just wasn't tight enough and I could have glued it but I decided to actually adhere it with the same binding so I ran my steam binding up and down through my threads there actually tied a knot underneath the button and then I started weaving the tails of the seam binding up and down every other one using this little paint palette a little paint knife to slide the seam binding on Neath those threads so I went round and round and I did use the little hot glue to secure my ends I just tucked them underneath I made a like triple bow with some lace and some seam binding and you can see I still have my thread sticking out here with the needle so I'm gonna sew that right to my pin cushion I'm also gonna use a little bit of hot glue to just get it to adhere to the pincushion where I want it but I just feel it's really important just sew your embellishments on so that they last a long time and here is the final product I also sewed this I made a little charm with some beads and a little bird and the top chain I also sewed underneath there where my thread was coming out which was right where my bow was and yeah so it's all done it does take a bit of time to make these they do take a little bit of practice I think they're well worth it in the end they make absolutely beautiful gifts and they last for a really long time so I just think they're really nice keepsakes to give away so if anyone has any questions please let me know again the other videos below which might help you but this one I wanted to do a little bit more condensed version as well let's have some of these this one has a few tips in there that makes it easier for you so I'll be talking to you soon have a great day bye bye