Last weekend I made these pincushions.  Amazingly, I didn’t have any!  Now I’ve got one for upstairs and one for downstairs.  They’re just two circles sewn together, stuffed, then I used embroidery thread to wrap around and make the “petals” before sewing buttons into the centres.

The yo-yo brooch was originally made as decoration for the little romper-dress, but it was just too much.  So now it’s a summer brooch for me!  And now for a photo showing the reverse sides:

Note the HUGE pile of bias binding – I needed some for the romper-dress, so thought that I’d try making my own.  From a 22 inch square of fabric I now have a massive amount of bias binding that you will probably be seeing on every project I undertake for a very long time.  I used the directions in Amy Karol’s book Bend The Rules Sewing, plus a bias tape maker that I’ve had sitting in the drawer waiting to be used for far too long!  I’ll make more of my own bias binding in the future.