An actual craft project! With pictures even!

The other night, as I was drifting off, I was struck with inspiration.  See, I’d just earlier that evening knocked the box of pins off my desk again and spent some time digging around the carpet with a flashlight hoping to find them all then and not later with my foot.  I know, a pincushion from the fabric store is darned cheap, but that’s not what I wanted.  I wanted something that was all me.

At first I thought I’d make a plush skull to put pins in, but then I thought “no wait, a skull base with a brain pincushion!  Perfection!”

While at a halloween store, I spied this little plastic skull, and only a buck fifty with tax.  Brought him home, cut the top of his head off and sanded the edges down so that they wouldn’t be sharp.

Then I plugged some holes in the bottom with hot melt glue and filled him with sand.  I topped the sand with a layer of glue so that I could work with the whole thing without worrying about spilling sand in the carpet.  (Did I ever mention that I’m a complete klutz?)

Next I took a piece of pink terry cloth (I know brains are actually grey, but I like pink brains) and a scrap of another fabric and made a small pillow stuffed with a little fluff.  I sewed crazy lines all over it and then attached the quilted fabric piece to one of those tomato pincushions.  I may not be thrilled with the looks of them, but I do like the nice heavy consistency.  Then I stuffed this down in the top of the skull.

Voila!

This was a quick project – maybe 2 hours start to finish and that was because I was figuring it out at I went.

2 Responses to “An actual craft project! With pictures even!”

  1. Aunt Susie Says:

    Only you would come up with something like that. Who knows? Maybe you can market it and retire early. 🙂

  2. Channing Says:

    I still like the way you think.
    I hope all is good.

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