Hi everyone, I have been re-uploading some of my original posts from my old tutorial blog and decided to post them on here.
This is a mattress pin cushion I made quite some time ago.
Materials required
Finished cross stitch piece
Lightweight interfacing (Pellon in America)
Sharp scissors
Polyester fibre fill or flat quilt batting
Embroidery thread to match your design
Needle
You can make any design into a mattress pincushion as long as you stitch an outline around your pattern and create the panels with the same amount of stitches to line up with other pieces, you will see what I mean when you look at all of the photos.
Iron lightweight interfacing onto the back of each panel piece just within the edging lines.
Cut all panels like this
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Line up edge so that each backstitch lines up with the backstitch on the other piece
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Like this.......
You should have exactly the same amount of back stitches on each side.
Attach the next piece at the bottom, see the next picture for a close up!
Can you see? As long as you have exactly the same amount of stitches to match each side then it will be easy!
When you have stitched all four sides it should now look like this.
Fold over the corners and stitch them together
There are two ways to fill your mattress, one with fibrefill, which is the way I did it or you can cut pieces of quilt batting the same size as your mattress pincushion and place them inside the mattress before attaching the bottom of the mattress.
Using the quilt batting will give a much sharper finish to your mattress, I have made one with quilt batting and I think it was much nicer.
Attach the bottom piece and stitch to the top section and fill with fibre fill before you close the opening.
Your mattress pincushion should now look like this.
I think there are a few hundred french knots in this!
If you would like to see more mattress pin cushions then type Mattress Pin Cushion in the search bar or here are a few links below…
Until next time, happy stitching!
