Jar Pin Cushion Tutorial

Look at images top right to left, then down a row & repeat. You can click the image to be a large full size to view steps. I hope that helps!

Supplies:

Row 1 #1photo:

• cotton material *fat quarters work great or pretty scraps
• fiberfill batting
• scissors or pinking sheers
• hot glue gun & glue sticks
• Thin cardboard
• paper punch *optional
• sheet of scrapbook paper or pretty paper
• Elmer’s glue or scrapbook glue
• sewing kit to put into jar
• mason jar with ring & lid (any size) I used pint sized wide mouth
• pretty ribbon or string
• metal tweezers

How To:

• Place the lid onto the material make sure to cut more than  2-3″+ wider than lid (size depending on size of jar)
• Take a handful of fiberfill batting & place it on top of the jar lid without the ring
• 2nd row #1 photo:Pull the material over the batting & place the ring on making sure the batting is tucked in
• Pull any extra batting out of the way or lift ring & try again
• Gently pull material toward center around to make it look pretty & even /  make material meet in center & cut off excess so it will lay flat
• *3rd row #1photo: put hot glue onto lid & pull material into middle make sure your edges around ring area don’t have bulky spots. I used a tweezers to push down material as to not burn your fingers!!
• I punched a thin cardboard in a pretty shape & glued it to the center to cover the glued material where it meets in the center.
• Then I punched pretty paper in same shape & used Elmer’s glue, gluing the cutout to  the cardboard.
• Now the pint jars are not big enough to hold the scissors that came in my sewing kit. So I have some super thick hair ties in neutral colors so I pulled it over the jar to hold scissors in place when not in use.  (you really don’t see hairband as it is up near the ring or you cover it with the ribbon)
• I tied ribbon or (string) to the scissors & looped around hairband then tied ribbon (or string)  around jar. Now my kiddo won’t walk away with my scissors! (*shes 10)
• Add your safety pins, buttons, sewing needles…. or anything that your sewing kit came with into the jar.

That’s it! If you have any questions or seems to be missing something just ask! I will try & answer. The biggest problem I ran into when using others tutorials is not allowing enough material to cover & it was to short which made it bulky & hard to screw on jar lid. & a few more images for you.

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