How To: Fragrant Trivet Project

1. Free Ice Cream Cone Pincushion Pattern/tutorial (pdf download)
2. Fantabulous Pincushion Tutorial
3. Pixie Blossom’s Teacup Pincushion Tutorial
4. Square Wrist Pincushion
5. Baby Food Jar Pincushion / Sewing Kit
6. Martha Stewart’s Tea Cup Pincushions
7. Martha Stewart’s Homegrown Tomato Pincushions
8. African Violet Pincushion How-to
9. Ladybug Pincushion How-To
10. Mushroom Pincushion How-To
11. Small Wonder Pin Blossom
12. Southern Girl’s Pincushion Tutorial
13. Soda Bottle Cap Pincushion
14. Square Pincushion Tutorial
15. Pansy Pincushion Pattern
16. Tin Can Pincushion
17. Pincushion/Thread Catcher Tutorial
18. Homespun Hearts Pincushions
19. Busy Bees Pincushion *Cross Stitch Pattern
20. Pincushion Confection
21. Dress Form Pincushion *from the web archive
22. Free Hedgie Pincushion

You’ll also find more pincushions listed on these pages: Scrap Happy, Scrap Happy Update, Monkeyroom’s Pincushion Tutorial and Make A Mini-Basket Pincushion - Tutorial.

Have a great weekend!

Here is a collection of free clothespin bag patterns found online. You can click the picture above to print out this sweet vintage clothespin character pattern, transfer it to your bag if you like and embroider. It’s an animated clothespin bouncing on a bar of soap from an old clothespin bag pattern I have (the complete sewing pattern is too large to scan and share unfortunately). See embroidery pattern notes at the bottom.

11 Free Clothespin Bag Patterns

1. Clothespin Bag Tutorial
2. Free Pattern and Directions to Sew a Clothes Pin Bag
3. Free Sewing Pattern - Clothes Peg Bag (or Clothespin Bag!)
4. Crochet a Recycled Clothes Pin Bag - Free Pattern
5. Crochet Pattern For Clothespin Bag
6. Vintage Apron Bonnet Pattern (converts into a clothespin bag)
7. A European-Style Clothespin Apron
8. Making A Clothespin Bag
9. A Clothespin Bag
10. Cute Shirt Clothespin Bag Instructions
11. Little Dress Clothespin Bag Pattern

Embroidery Notes (from pattern):

The clothes pin design may be appliquéd in any gay print or outlined in green or red. Limbs and features are black outline, eyes blue satin stitch and mouth red. Soap and lettering on it are blue; broken lines black.

Materials:

3/4 yard Printed Cotton

J. & P. Coats Percale Bias Trim, single fold

Coat Hanger

J. & P. Coats or Clark’s O.N.T. Mercerized Sewing Thread in matching colors, or Best Six Cord in white

Directions for Cutting:

1 piece — 18″ x 36″
2 pieces — 7″ x 17 1/2″

Directions for Making:
(1/2″ allowed for seams)

1. Place 7″ x 17 1/2″ pieces (top section) wrong sides together.
2. To shape top edge, place a hanger along edge, draw around outside curve and cut along outline.
3. Cut one piece in half up the center and hem cut edges 1/4″ and press.
4. Baste the 2 small pieces against the one whole piece, right sides together, and stitch across the top and down the sides, turn to right side and press.
5. To make bag section, stitch selvage edges of 18″ x 36″ piece together (right sides together) to within 6″ from top edge and press.
6. With selvage seam at center front, stitch across bottom edge, turn to right side and press.
7. Gather top edge of bag section.
8. Baste and stitch top section to bag section, raw edge to raw edge (right sides together).
9. Baste and stitch both edges of bias trim across front 3″ from top edge and repeat this over seam line, allowing 10″ to extend at each side of center opening for ties.
10. To finish ties, top stitch 10″ of bias to wrong side of each tie. Insert hanger.

Source: J. & P. Coats Gift Bazaar Sewing Suggestions (1944)