What to make?

Sometimes I look at all my “supplies” and I can’t figure out what I want to make.  And I end up on my computer, checking Facebook, and searching for patterns online, even though I have hundreds of patterns.  The thing about buying patterns is that art is always changing and growing and what I thought was cool a year ago, is kind of out of style.  So patterns online can be fresh and motivating.

I have a friend who really likes dress forms – you know the ones made out of wire.  She is also a sewer.  I wanted to make her something that  had a dress form on it.  It is hard to search for a dress form pattern without finding patterns for actual dress forms.

But I did find this cool dress form pattern, that is a dress form pin cushion.

So then I got sidetracked and found these cool videos on how to make pin cushions out of old wool sweaters into little coffee cups.

And well that little video landed me on Ebay where I searched for and purchased some old wool sweaters.  And saw that some people sell used socks on Ebay.  For real.

But now I think I am going to make these cute little square pin cushions.  Because I don’t have a dowel for the dress form pin cushion . . . yet.

Ok box-edged square pin cushions? Yeah, not so easy to make.  I did find a tutorial here that seems to explain it better than the link above.

box edged pillow

It is really hard to put the second side on (green part).  This is about 6×6 inches, but I tried to make one smaller – 3×3 – and got really frustrated and gave up.  It might be easier to hand stitch it – but who has time for that?