Free Pincushion Patterns
Use these free patterns to fashion quick and easy pincushions for yourself and your sewing friends!
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Plus Pincushions
Compose a duo of pincushions featuring plus signs in varying sizes.
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Blooming Batik Pincushion
Use a black-and-white batik as a foundation to showcase beautiful and bright colors. A Dresden Plate block blooms like a flower from the center of this pincushion.
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Buzzworthy
The bees and blooms on these appliquéd and embroidered wool pincushions prove spring has sprung.
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Bright Bloom Pincushion
Practice your embroidery with a flower pincushion featuring both machine- and hand-stitched embellishments.
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Pretty Pincushion Stack
These quick-to-make pincushions are cute enough to give individually or as a towering set of three.
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Pyramid Pincushion
Foundation-piece tiny triangles into a pincushion that has geometric appeal.
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Big & Bold
Don't spend time searching for your pincushion. Make a jumbo, tufted cushion in bright, lively prints and finding it will be a cinch!
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Fresh Picked
Felted wool pincushions will be the hit of the party when given as take-home favors.
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Singer Featherweight Pincushion
Use scraps to create a Singer Featherweight sewing machine on an oversize pincushion. Let a Nine-Patch block represent a quilt ready to be sewn.
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Build a Block
Utilize your stash to create an oversize Courthouse Steps pincushion from 1"-wide strips.
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Dresden Pincushions
Machine-stitch a trio of cute-as-can-be pincushions with Dresden stars on top. Pick your favorite fabric scraps, a bit of rickrack, and buttons, then tie it all together with solid white.
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Wool and Whimsy
Love to work with wool? Bring garden-fresh blooms to any sewing table with folk art wool pincushions that you can stitch in an afternoon.
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Bags, Pillows, and Pincushions
Quilters who finish more make more. And for quilters who love to decorate theirhomes , these small projects fill that desire perfectly. This magazine features an array of 20+ new and favorite patterns. The hardest part will be deciding which one to make first!
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Folk Art Felt
Quickly hand-stitch a trio of whimsical felt pincushions.
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Wild Flowers
Snip, stitch, and stuff. Soon you will have a garden of flower pincushions.
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Budding Beauty
Use fusible and dimensional appliqué techniques to add textural petals.
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Posy Pincushions
Create these pincushions as gifts for quilters. To personalize them, select bits of ribbon, rickrack, and fabric from a memorable event or choose trims in colors that complement a sewing room decor.
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Go Nuts
Make a bunch of acorn-inspired felt pincushions and needle books, then squirrel them away for holiday gifts.
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On Pins & Needles Pincushion
Bold fabrics, bright buttons, and colorful ribbon elevate practical pincushions to new heights.
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Patchwork Pincushion
Cut and piece 5-inch precut squares to frame an appliqué panel and create a patchwork back for a handy pin keeper.
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Holiday Pincushion
Stack a set of three pincushions for a cute addition to the holiday sewing frenzy.
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Wristband Pincushions
Use felted wool scraps to appliqué sunflower pincushions to wristbands for fellow quilters and needlework artists.
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Scrappy Pincushion
Bright fabric scraps make up a merry Log Cabin pincushion.
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Tie-On Pincushion
Ideal for tying onto a sewing basket, these tiny pincushions are great gifts for your quilting buddies.
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Spring Hats Pincushion
Wool pincushions pose as spring hats, making them perfect party favors for a Mother's Day luncheon or sewing circle. Or make several for yourself and keep one in each of your sewing baskets.