Pincushion Mania! 50+ Designs To Make

Strawberry: You may remember seeing charming strawberry pincushions like these in your grandmother’s sewing box.

Fabric Tomatoes: Free pdf template to download.

4-Squares Patchwork: This pincushion is a simple patchworked number, four squares on each side, with a button detail in the centre. Easy Peasy.

Patchwork: Bold fabric, zany buttons, and quirky ribbons elevate the practical pincushion to new heights of style.

Miniature: Each one is like a tiny version of a larger quilt, but they are a lot quicker to make.

Doily: Either make doilies yourself, or buy them at a thrift store, garage sale, or anywhere else you can find them cheap. The doilies used here are around 4″ diameter.

Cupcake: Sweet design sewn with fabric and trimmed with ric-rac.

Easy Patchwork: These are fairly easy, take about an hour, and it’s a great way to use up little scrap pieces.

Hex: Trimmed with fabric binding, includes a template to download.

Tea Cup Flower: You’ll need enough scraps of fabric for 10 tea cup circles.

Berry: The use of woollen yarns and simple stitches make this a quick and easy project to create. Free pdf pattern download.

Simply Geometric: It is made up of circles, squares and triangles. Simply geometric!

Mushroom: Fairly simple project that requires a bit of sewing and a hot glue gun.

Giant: These are super simple to make and adorable! They come in handy around your sewing room and work as great gifts for sewing friends.

Dainty: Create a bouquet of cute little flower pincushions, made with pretty fabric, fusible interfacing and oval kraft paper box.

Moda Love: This pattern makes two pincushions, so you can share the love!

Button Center: With this pincushion, now you have a cute and colorful landing place for all of your sewing pins.

Homegrown Tomato: Stitch a robust heirloom variety in loosely woven linen or cherry tomatoes in dainty gingham.

Bari J. Pincushion: Free pdf download available.

Adorable Pumpkin: It’s a basic design that we’ve seen before but embellished with a colorful green leaf and curling grossgrain ribbon, make sure to use some bright orange patterned fabric and voila! you have a sweet pumpkin.

Simple Square: Free pdf tutorial download.

Easy: So easy and you can always embellish them or keep them super simple.

Yo-Yo: Make yo-yo’s from scratch or with a yo-yo maker for these cuties.

Teacup: Made with vintage teacups.

Pod Flower: Sweet little cushions made with felt.

DIY Owl: An owl shape is made out of modeling clay and then a small fabric pincushion placed in the center.

Wraparound: A wraparound pincushion that fastens onto your sewing machine keeps pins in place and at your finger tips.

Petit Strawberry: A simple yet pretty pincushion you can attach to scissor handles, a rotary cutter, whatever else you like.

Leather Bottom: Includes a pattern for the leather bottom piece.

Spring Hats: The pincushions are made from pieces of felted wool (for the hat, hat band, appliqued leaves and flowers) and embellished with embroidery floss and seed beads.

Ornate Frame: A small vintage frame is spray painted then turned into a pincushion using padding and an embroidered doily. Very pretty!

Quick-pieced: Lovely square pincushion with a pieced top in colorful fabrics and a button center (one button on either side).

Whimsical Star: Coordinating fabrics cut in diamond shapes are pieced & sewn together, pom-pom trim is added at each point and a fabric covered button is sewn in the center.

Thread Caddy & Pin Holder: Six little pockets to hold thread, the center is stuffed and used as a pincushion. Tutorial available via free pdf download.

The Big Chunk: Filled with crushed walnut shells and made with 6″ squares of fabric and batting.

Sundaes Best: Here’s a unique idea that converts a large glass pedestal ice cream sundae dish into a handy sewing room accessory.

Triangular Log Cabin: Made with strips of 6 print fabrics, a square of solid white and another print, filled with choice of stuffing.

Cookie Cutter: Cute project made with a cookie cutter (any shape), fun foam, thin floral foam, crushed walnut shells and a charm pack of fabric.

Teapot: A sweet little teapot complete with a spout, handle and lid. Free pdf pattern pieces available to download.

For Sewing Machine Needles: Has a template to download for needle descriptions that you use to transfer to felt.

Hedgehog: Faux fur can be used for the back but toweling or cotton will also work. Template included.

Knit Posey: Finished size approx. 3″ x 3-1/2″ high. A bottom, middle and top flower is knit and then stuffed with scrap yarn and sewn together.

Daisy Chatelaine: Charming thread crochet pattern, has a crocheted cord for hanging.

Tomato & Strawberry: Crochet pattern is available via free pdf download. Made with Berroco Suede yarn but any worsted weight yarn will work fine.

Egg: Crochet pattern. How handy is this when sitting in an egg cup!

Flower Petal: Crochet pattern. As you can see, the brighter mix of yarn colors the better! Nice little yarn stash buster.

Tricornu: Knitting pattern with some sewing involved (fabric bottom attached to knitted piece).

Frangipani: Knitting pattern. Features two little crochet flowers in the center, you could use decorative buttons if you don’t know how to crochet.

Aunti Wainwrights: Pretty thread crochet pattern. The site is Finnish but the pattern is translated in english.

Sweet Flower: Crochet pattern. Mix and match colors as you see fit. Make a solid flower, or one with a different colored center, or one side solid and the other side two colored!

Felted Lime: Knitting pattern, nice and citrus-y!

Crocheted Cupcake: Finished size is 4 inches diameter x 3 inches high unfrosted (3-1/2 inches frosted) at widest point.

Cupcake Pattern: Crochet. Decorate with a sprinkling of seed beads.

Apple: Instructions for stem and leaf included, worked on DPNs and circulars, stuffed with Merino fleece.