Do It Yourself: Fairy Toadstool Pincushion

Okay, so I didn’t actually make this adorable toadstool pincushion all by myself. Amélie helped a lot, since it’s going to be hers (and for the fairies, you know)! She got a sewing machine for her birthday that’s making me green with envy, and it came with a handy little sewing kit but no pin cushion. Well, we weren’t going to stand for that, were we?

A trip to the craft store resulted in a pattern (which we interpreted rather loosely), felt, stuffing, plastic pellets, and a few sweet ladybug buttons. I taught Amélie to sew in a straight line using tiny stitches (she’s a natural but bored quickly so we used the machine for most of it) and how to sew on a button (which I’m proud to say she did all by herself without even poking herself with the needle). Mainly she kept me company and sucked her thumb while I figured out her cute little machine, which earned our seal of approval despite the tizzy we’d worked ourselves into over some bad reviews we read online. By the time we’d finished, Amélie was so pooped that we had to rest and so she hasn’t even had a change to try using the sewing machine. Now that I’ve figured it out, though, I think I’ll be able to better help her learn next week.

I’m really excited to make a pin cushion that looks like a cupcake for myself. That’s coming up soon! Oh, and Santa, if you’re reading this, I want a sewing machine just like Amélie’s for Christmas!