how to make a toadstool pincushion
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How to:
make a toadstool pincushion
kootoyoo…click & stitch
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• Bread & butter plate, rice, kitchen wrap, toilet roll or cardboard tubing needle & thread, scissors, stuffing, embroidery floss.
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Step 2:
• Position the bread & butter plate on your toadstool fabric & cut out a rough circle shape
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Step 3:
• Cut out smaller circles of your contrast fabric (for the toadstool spots).
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Step 4:
• It’s important to remember that not all of your toadstool fabric will be visible so you’ll only need a few spots. I like odd numbers but that’s just me.
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Step 5:
• Using double thread, just do a running stitch around your toadstool circle.
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Step 6:
• This is what it should look like when finished. Set aside for later.
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Step 7:
• Now running stitch around your smaller circles.
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Step 8:
• Once you’ve finished “running” around each circle add a small amount of stuffing to the centre of your circle.
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Step 9:
• Gently ease both ends of the thread together just as you would if you were gathering or making yo-yo’s. Knot the ends together. You should have a nice puffy round shape.
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Step 10:
• Repeat for each of your toadstool spots.
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Step 11:
• Randomly position your spots towards the centre of the base fabric. I’ve just attached the spots using a simple running stitch but blanket or other decorative stitches would work just as nicely.
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Step 12:
• Once you’ve attached all your spots your larger circle should look something like this.
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Step 13:
• Add a handful of stuffing to the centre of your toadstool.
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Step 14:
• Gently ease both ends of the thread together just as you would if you were gathering or making yo-yo’s. Knot the ends together. It’s important that your opening is smaller than your cylinder (you don’t want the stuffing to fall out).
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Step 15:
• You should have a nice puffy round shape for your toadstool top.
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Step 16:
• Cut your toilet roll/cylinder at about the 1/3 way point (2.5 – 3cms) so that your stalk is cute & stumpy. This will make the pincushion more stable so it won’t keep tipping over when you insert pins.
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Step 17:
• Position your cylinder onto your stalk fabric. You want the fabric to comfortably go around the cylinder with a seam allowance of around .5 cm. The fabric should be about four times as long as your cylinder.
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Step 18:
• With right sides together, pin your fabric around your cylinder.
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Step 19:
• With right sides together, running stitch along the pin line.
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Step 20:
• Turn your tube in the right way.
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Step 21:
• Gently ease the cylinder inside your fabric tube.
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Step 22:
• Slide the cylinder down so that you have about 1.5cm of fabric above the cylinder. Fold this to the inside of the top of the cylinder.
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Step 23:
• Poke the fabric at the bottom of the cylinder up through the cylinder.
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Step 24:
• Pass your needle & thread from one side of the fabric tube through to the other.
• Wrap the thread around the fabric cylinder several times (between 10 & 15 times) & then make a couple of stitches & knot the end off to secure.
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Step 25:
• Now your stalk should look like this at the base…just as if it were plucked from the earth.
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Step 26:
• Turn your stalk so that the open end is facing up.
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Step 27:
• Place a small amount of rice onto a square of kitchen wrap.
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Step 28:
• Gently roll to form a sausage shape.
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Step 29:
• Curve your rice sausage to form a donut shape. Ease around the centre of your stalk & inside the cylinder.
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Step 30:
• Your stalk should look now look something like this.
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Step 31:
• Trim the excess stalk fabric.
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Step 32:
• Place your stalk onto your toadstool top.
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Step 33:
• Stitch the stalk to the toadstool top.
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Done!
• Cute & functional!