How to Make a Pin Cushion Jar | Quick Gift Ideas

Hi everyone,
I thought I'd show you how to make these super cute pin cushion jars. They're really quick and easy to make and with adult supervision, its a fun project to do with your kids. They make great craft room storage, teacher gifts, fund raiser gifts, stock items for your own store and much more. Use your imagination and you could even personalize them or theme them to make them extra special.
If you enjoyed this tutorial, a like and subscribe would be a lovely way to show your support.
Thanks for joining and if you do make some why not let me know in the comments or tag me in your Instagram pic.
Dawn x
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[@gaiavandenbroek9705]

Amazing! Quick, easy and great for beginners.

[@Priscilla.G.]

How adorable 🥰 thank you so much for sharing wow I love it 🎉😊💕🎉🎉

[@DawnsDays]

Thank you I'm so glad you enjoyed it 🥰

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

How fun are these little pin cushion jars!!! I have to make one!!!!

[@DawnsDays]

Aren't they so easy too, hope you make one it'll look really cute in your craft room. You could even crochet round one. 😘🤗🤗

[@samiyarashid4874]

Thank you dear for this tutorial 💜💜and your pin cushion jar's looking so pretty 💜

[@DawnsDays]

Thank you so much 😊

[@lindasnarr2182]

This was such a useful, quick, slick project for me to do with my granddaughters. I’m going to make mine tonight and teach them tomorrow I will give you credit for the idea! Thanks

[@DawnsDays]

Sorry I missed your comment Linda, hope you enjoyed making them 😁😘

[@Sandra-ds1fn]

Hi Dawn, Have been puzzling how to make this project look neat. I never thought about using cardboard. Thank you

[@DawnsDays]

That's great Sandra and thanks so much for letting me know 🙌🤗

[@apapsa]

Lovely tutorial, Dawn! Clever way to use up fabric scraps and to reuse jars 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😍😍😍

[@DawnsDays]

It's a win win, you enjoy the contents of the jar then get to craft with it 🤣😍 thanks for watching 😘😘🤗

[@aprildegele1510]

Awesome! So easy. Tip: if you do a thin layer of batting/fluff or whatever for the layer just beneath the fabric (and honestly, you can use the stuffing from an old bed pillow because no one is going to be sleeping on the project) and then fill the center with steel wool, it will help to sharpen your pins as you put them in and remove them.

[@DawnsDays]

Oh what a great idea thanks for sharing 😁😁😘

[@aprildegele1510]

@@DawnsDays Happy to share. Honestly, I didn't learn this until I started woodworking. Some of the hand tools you use require near constant sharpening. Sharpening card scrapers, after having learned about the old days of sharpening needles (as a nursing student), made the pin thing as a novice quilter make sense. It may be microscopic, but every time you put pin through fabric, it deflects the tippy tip just a teeny bit. If you can gently put the tip back where it was simply by inserting and pulling out the tip of a pin as it moves through steel wool in a pin cushion, it would be like physically sharpening the pin every time you use it. Works for me anyway.

[@aprildegele1510]

I have to say I'm very happy to have chatted and at the same time, am a little creaped out at the similarity. I also learned about the old days of sharpening needles because I was an ER/Trauma nurse in the highest volume ER in our state for 18 years. I'm also a woodworker that volunteers in a 50+ woodshop. Isn't it amazing how things we think of as "soft" will deflect the tip of a pin, needle, etc.? Have you ever taken a used needle and run it along cotton? Okay, those days of multiple use needles are well over, but we were taught with needles that had been used on dummies for IV starts. It's amazing how little it takes to deform the end of a very sharp needle (or blade even). And one really scarred up vein can bend a whole needle, not just the tip, yes?

[@maureenkillen1503]

Hello Dawn, I'm definitely going to make a few of these xxx

[@DawnsDays]

Hi Maureen 👋👋 glad you liked it 😘 Hope you have a go, I find them really fun to make 🤗🤗😘

[@thanujadilhani9497]

Thank you very much dear

[@DawnsDays]

Hope you enjoyed making some :)

[@12794lexilou]

Thank you for doing such a great tutorial!

[@DawnsDays]

Thanks so much Alexis, glad you liked it and hope you have a go at making some 👍🤗🤗

[@ajenny24]

Love it dawn!😀👍🏻👍🏻💜

[@DawnsDays]

Thanks lovely, I really enjoy making them and it's to simple 🙌😘🤗

[@lesleyoliver3310]

Thanks for the tutorial. I’m off to find a large jar to make a sewing kit. Thanks from Australia 🐨🦘😷

[@DawnsDays]

yay, hope you enjoy making it xx

[@RuthiesCraftingCorner]

Hello Dawn, I am definitely going to make some of these. Thank you for sharing :) XX

[@DawnsDays]

I hope you do they're so easy and handy 🙌😘😘

[@anniemartin3531]

I love it! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!!

[@DawnsDays]

Yay, did you make some? 🥰

[@anniemartin3531]

@@DawnsDays I did! I use it all the time while sewing, so handy. Beats chasing around those red "tomato" pin holders. It stays right where you put it :) Going to make one for my daughter now that she's back into sewing.

[@CraigsOverijse]

Hi Dawn another British expat waving at you from over the border in Belgium looks super easy and nice idea, first time viewer super thanks will check out your other videos

[@DawnsDays]

👋👋 hi nice to see you 😁 we've family in Belgium, beautiful place. Thanks for commenting 😘

[@trishbresolin8212]

😍😍💖💖😚🤗

[@azaliarodriguez3982]

5😅

[@annmilleville1983]

Thank you Dawn! Greetings from Belgium, Ann, hAnndmade_be

[@DawnsDays]

Hi Ann 👋 thanks for stopping by the channel hope you enjoyed the tutorial 😁😘