Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Tutorial - How to Make a Pincushion from a Baby Shoe

The cutest pincushion !

Baby Shoe Pincushion Tutorial at Handmade Harbour Blog

"A huge bag of baby shoes was lying in a corner of my sewing room.  One daughter has a baby who was bought tiny shoes by seemingly everyone who knew her.  She tried to offload the outgrown (and some unworn) ones onto another daughter for her new baby - but most got left behind at my house, sadly unwanted but still impossibly cute (as baby shoes always are). I rifled through the bag before taking it to the charity shop.  Surely I could do something with all that cuteness".... Read more

5 comments:

  1. that is so darn cute ....could be a great gift for a new mum that sews....again so so cute...

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  2. Hoooo , super idée
    Je vais me servire d'une bottine de mon petit fils
    BRAVO

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  3. Hi Sherrie - thanks for your comment. Yes, it would make a lovely gift for a new mum - I hadn't thought of that! I'm a grandma and it's lovely to use as a pincushion as it's got a lot of happy memories attached to it - as well as being so cute, of course :-)

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  4. This is the cutest idea! Bummed I see it when my "babies" are almost 30! I'll have to remember to share it with others:@)

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