This neat sunflower pincushion can be made out of felt and brown velvet or felt fabric can be used for the center cushion.
The instructions and illustration below were originally published in 1893.
Sunflower Pincushion
This pincushion is made of felting and velvet. Eight petal shaped pieces of olive felting, three inches long, are sewed on a circle of the same color two and a half inches in diameter.
Over these are fastened eight similar petals of yellow felting of a similar size, so arranged that the yellow and olive points alternate.
A second row of still smaller yellow petals is placed over the first, with the two lower corners of each petal folded over to give a quilled appearance.
The middle is covered by a small, round black or brown velvet cushion with soft stuffing, which is marked near the edge by two bands of fine yellow embroidery chenille, tacked on with sewing silk.
The sunflower is suspended by a narrow loop of yellow felting, pinked on the edges.
The same idea may be carried out in white felting, cut in narrower petals with a yellow cushion, to represent a daisy.
These flowers are convenient to hang beside a man’s dressing case, where a more elaborate pincushion would be in the way.
Source: The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands), 07 Dec. 1893.
