Addicted to Pincushions

What am I doing? I find myself creating pincushions

every night. I will soon have one for each room in the

house. I will be giving them away for graduation gifts

- the traditional graduation pincushion, I am sure you

are familiar with it. . .

I stumbled on this nifty little book (thank you very much

Amazon for alerting me to yet another "need") and am addicted!

OK, true confession - this new obsession is the hybrid of

two other obsessions: my love for something I can create

in my lap and my love for thick wool. I have a stash of this

fabulous wool from my previous obsession for wool rug hooking.

I have commitment issues.

I know Iwill return to the rug hooking because of the absolutely

georgeous one I am 2/3 done with. I will come back, I promise!

BUT in the meantime who could resist these festival-in-your-palm

pincushions? And so practical. Did I mention the embellished pins

you can make to go in them?

What? How did I get off on that? My real reason for the post is to

show picutres of some of my pincushions to inspire others - I'm taking

you down with me. This is mostly for my Les Arte des Ami friends.

I will post photos of ones you bring to the meeting the 24th too.