Don’t want women to work outside the home? Fine, then we will make strange things out of chicken bones. No, seriously, we will.
The following craft project was found in a newspaper from 1907. It is for a pincushion that is framed by two wishbones from chickens, because bones and stabbing things with needles goes hand in hand.
Makes a Novel Pincushion
Here is a novelty in the way of a “lucky” pincushion, which would be a suitable gift to either a man or woman. It is quite easy to make, the cushion being cut in circular shape and filled very full with bran. It is then covered with brocade, silk, or velvet, and the junction of the upper and lower surface is hidden by a length of silk cord, tied tightly round, so as to cause an indentation. It is then knotted on two sides, round the ends of a couple of wishbones which are arranged over the cushion in the way the illustration so clearly shows.
The bones, after they are removed from the fowls, should be boiled in clear water, then wiped dry, and any rough places rubbed down with fine sandpaper.
Source: The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.), 31 May 1907.
