If you ever need to store safety pins and needles in the same place, here is a handy pincushion craft that was originally published in 1917.
This Pincushion is Useful
The pincushion in the sketch makes a dainty decoration suspended from the dressing table, and will be found useful, for it holds pins and needles of all sizes, and also has a ring for safety pins.
Make a little bag of white sateen and fill it with sawdust or bran. Use a piece of material that measures 6 by 5 inches.
Now cover this bag with a remnant of pretty silk; a piece of ribbon will do equally well, providing it is wide enough.
Find the exact center of this pad, then take a prettily colored narrow ribbon, and bind it round the center as in sketch. Secure this band at the back of the pad with a stitch.
Now, with a piece of the same ribbon 6 inches in length, make a loop to hang the cushion up by. Sew to the top of the pad; at the bottom of the pad, sew another similar loop, but first of all thread on to it a bone ring.
The dainty article is now finished. It only remains to stick pins of assorted sizes on the pad and to fasten several safety pins on the bone ring.
Source: Carrizozo outlook. (Carrizozo, N.M.), 16 Nov. 1917.
