This is a an easy peasy tutorial for a beautiful tea cup pin cushion and will take you around 10 minutes to complete.
You will need :
A tea cup
Needle and thread
Wadding
A small piece of fabric
Strong glue
Do you have a lovely tea cup already? Maybe you'll need to go on the hunt for one and I love nothing more than stalking all of the local brocantes where I live.
The tea cup in the photo is a small one I found for 50 centimes.
Here goes and enjoy!
Step 1. Draw a circle on to your piece of fabric ( accurately is preferable with a compas ). The size of the circle depends on the size of your tea cup and to give you an example, my tea cup circumference is 8cm and so I've chosen the circumference of my fabric circle to be 18cm.
Cut the circle out.
Step 2. Hand sew large gaps, around 2cm apart, around the edge of the circle staying as close to the edge as you can. ( Make sure you leave enough thread hanging at the start as you will be pulling both ends together to gather up your fabric in a minute ).
You can just about make out the needle and thread positioning in the photo above, sorry for the quality of the photo!
Step 3. Gather the fabric gently by pulling both ends of thread together, leaving a gap for the stuffing.
You're actually making a simple suffolk puff!
Step 4. Place your stuffing inside, pull tightly closed and tie the ends together with a double or triple knot.
Step 5. Turn the right way up so that the underneath doesn't show and using a strong glue, place and fix into your tea cup.
Step 6. You're done, the only thing left to do is to add your pins.
Well done and I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
Lucy x
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