It took me 3 weeks to...

make about 60 bottle cap pincushions. They were alot of fun to

make. These were made from different objects. 2 were made

from the bottoms of a tide pen. A few were made from soda pop

caps (I like these the best because they are deeper). Some were made from

shallow plastic water bottle caps. These caps are smaller

than soda pop caps. And then

a couple are made from pill bottle caps. The first picture

shows the first 13 that I made.

The red tall pincushion with the baby blue one

beside it were made from the

bottoms of the tide pens. As you can see my stitches were

not so good. The red one is made from felt while the baby blue

one is made from flannel. I like the softness of the flannel verses

the felt. I like the rounded top of the red felt one but I love the beads

& the flat soft top of the baby blue one.

The pretty pink one with lace around it is one of my favorites.

Its a simple plastic water bottle cap. This one uses fleece. Again

this fabric is so soft. The one beside it is made the same way except

it has the lace sewn on top to give a different effect.

A peek under this pink lace cap shows my way of wrapping

the bottle cap. Its bottom is smooth. The lacy bottlecap

shows the difficulty that I had again while trying to sew the

cap together like the other bottlecaps are made. It just didnt

work for me.

The next 3 uses toile. I thought it would be fun to try & combine

fabric with felt & flannel. They didnt turn out too bad.

You can tell when you turn over the larger toile pincushion

that it is a pill bottle. But its okay its hardly noticeable.

The floral one is not really decorated yet. I cant decide on how to

finish it. In fact nothing has come to mind.

I tried to make a double wedding cake. It uses a soda pop cap for the smaller

cake layer. The black is thin leather strips.

It turned out so pretty!

If you havent done these yet - you should. They are quick & easy.

When I started I was aiming for chocolates. It looks like I missed.

Anyway try it - you'll like it. These little things really are

addictive!

by Hopblogger