What to use to fill "pin cushion

Fred wrote: > BTW, Oak sawdust or any other type of sawdust with a high

I had no idea. Most of the pincushions sold are coming from overseas and filled with sawdust.

I had a nice, purchased pincushion in the living room and boy did my needles rust. But not from the pincushion. They rusted on the protruding portion. Putting them through emery didn't help.

Dianne

How strange...

I've been doing some digging around - for some reason I'm now fixated on filling one (of the pin cushions) with lavender or something else fragrant; at least partially filling it.

Now if poppies had a scent....I'd be in real trouble

I was probably told long ago what the little "strawberry" on my mother's pincushion was for, but I had forgotten. I have a pattern for a biscornu I want to make that is a spider's web with a button spider -- I think I'll make it as a pincushion. Thanks for the helpful tips!

Mary Monica aka Monica Ferris

Human hair was traditional -- but you have to start saving your combings a long time ago. (Also works better if your hair is long.)

I'd avoid all plant fibers, in case a non-stainless pin is stuck into the cushion.

Joy Beeson

I have TONS of dried lavender so if yiou need some, just let me know :-). Did you go back to RCTQ yet? There is a response to your post offering you some wool batting!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

Well. I guess I'd better stop using that cute little mouse pincushion that I bought at Liberty's in January. Will return to my old ratty pincushion from the 1960s.

Thanks!

Donna in Virginia