Kits to make these pincushions contain all the velvets (or other fabrics needed) and wood parts, real wool stuffing and notions to make them. All you will need is finish for the wood - this is explained in detail in the kit.

SELL OUT PRICES ON VINTAGE STYLE PINCUSHION KITS IN THIS SECTION ONLY- 25% OFF
FINISHED PINCUSHIONS ARE NOT ON SALE

THE LADIES HOME SEWING COMPANION - A PINCUSHION DOLL
A doll sewing caddy/pincushion taken from antique ones (the concept), a cookie cutter woman I love from an antique collection (the outline) and antique paper doll styles of the late 1800's (the underwear look). Body outlines, hair and face designs are silkscreened on to body fabric, but you can use the paper patterns included to make more dolls. There is not much machine work as most of the doll is finished by hand. Her arms will be drawn and sewn from the arm pattern and her skirt is stuffed to become part of her whole figure. The apron, which has a pocket for small scissors, and her bodice are appliqued on. The needle keeper (shaped like an old-fashioned pocket once worn around the waists to hold various everyday sundries, especially sewing tools); and the strawberry emery hang from her waist. Her broad hips become the pincushion. All of her features and hair are simple and relaxing embroidery. Under everything are wood forms to define her shape and give her standing presence. Her oval wooden base has two spool spindles fitted out with old-style wooden spools which you wind with thread for display or you can use the spindles for your own actual sewing threads. If you wish to make more and do not have or wish to purchase the additional wooden parts or silkscreened bodies, you can use the included patterns to make your own. She is intended to be solidly stuffed with wool (the best pincushion stuffing), but you can use wool for upper parts down to below hips and other stuffing for lower skirt.

FINISHED PINCUSHION DOLL in Browns $295.00 Add to Cart
FINISHED PINCUSHION DOLL in Blues $295.00 Add to Cart

FULL KIT - Has all fabrics, wood pieces, silkscreens and supplies.
Full Kit in Browns $68 Add to Cart
Full Kit in Blues $68 Add to Cart
Decorative Scissors for Pocket $15 Add to Cart

MINI KIT - Has all wood pieces, silkscreens and supplies - you supply your own fabrics. $52 Add to Cart
EXTRA WOOD PARTS $27 Add to Cart
EXTRA SILK SCREEN BODIES $3.50 Add to Cart
WOOL STUFFING - Necessary wool stuffing (8 yds) $5 Add to Cart

A TREASURED SEWING BOX
A good gift item or just one of those things to make you feel better, a 7” covered bandbox like those above filled with my favorite sewing things. Nestled in the box are a pair of can’t-live-without 4” Ginghers with the bigger finger loops, a package of my selection of the best needles used in dollmaking and general sewing, some great pins, a tin of beeswax to condition threads, a measurer, leather thimble and a spool of the my best cotton quilting thread on a wooden spool that does not tangle and is very strong. To complement the box fabric is a tomato style pincushion filled with real wool to preserve needles.

Kit $85.00 (No longer available)
Finished $125.00 (No longer available)

VINTAGE STYLE SEWING BOX SET
With so much emphasis on sewing in dollmaking, it is no wonder dollmakers are also attracted to old fashioned sewing accessories made from scraps and materials at hand to protect and hold safe these precious items. I have gathered together a pincushion top sewing box with attached strawberry emery, two needle cases, a flat style tomato pincushion, and a scissors case. Available in pattern only version, limited edition kit and finished as a special gift for yourself or for someone else. Kit has all materials including the papier-mache foundation box, vintage style mixed prints, wool roviing to stuff both pincushions, buttons, and other notions. Finished sets are made up in either reproduction fabrics or vintage fabrics as shown above and include fancy snipping scissors in the 7-piece sets.

Pattern Only $9.50 Add to Cart
Papier-Mache Box $4.00 Add to Cart
Limited Edition Kit $38.00 Add to Cart SELL OUT PRICE 25% OFF

Complete CD of an online class to make all of the items in this pattern or kit with many photos and extra how-to's. $12 (New Lower Price) Add to Cart

Finished Vintage Sewing Set in Reproduction Fabrics $175 Add to Cart (with complementary pins, GW needles, scissors)
Finished Vintage Sewing Set in Real Vintage Fabrics as shown above $295 Add to Cart

VINTAGE STYLE SEWIES ~ These are padded, lined and sewn up in overdyed Civil War prints. Some of the tomato pincushions are in rich velvets (red, blue, mustard, green). They make wonderful stocking stuffers or treat yourself.

Scissors cases (small embroidery size scissors) $18 Add to Cart
Rectangular Needle Keepers $15 Add to Cart
Heart Needle Keepers (Civil War Prints) $18 Add to Cart
Flat Tomato style pincushions in Civil War prints $12.00 Add to Cart
Small Strawberry Emeries $9.50 Add to Cart

DOLL'S SEWIES FOR ACCESSORIES (scaled for dolls) ~ These items come as a very sweet and fun kit for small dolls or items can be ordered finished. Early American ladies spent much time on their needlework which was often kept in their pockets (a pouch that hung from their waists). This is a set of fancy working miniature brass scissors and a set of patterns for a tiny scissors case, flat tomato pincushion and a strawberry emery. All items are well under an inch and easy to make from your silk (or cotton) scraps. They are nice to hang from doll's apron waist on a silk ribbon.

Kit with Scissors $12 Add to Cart Scissors alone $6.95 Add to Cart
Finished Set of tomato pincushion, scissors case with  scissors and emery $32 Add to Cart

Make this set with either the pattern or the limited edition kit.

Heart Needlecases & More Sewies

CLOTH COVERED JOURNALS
I have begun covering everything with my favorite fabrics, not only boxes to store things, but all my designs and patterns are now on shelves in attractive cloth covered binders and notebooks and boxes. Historically, books were often covered in fabrics to preserve their preciousness and many can be seen today on the antiques market. Vintage style prints are used to cover a 7-1/2”x 10” lined composition book. Covers are uniquely made to be removable and a spare notebook is included for the future. Journals may be ordered plain or with simple vintage looking embroidered titles added. There is a pattern to make your own covers for these journals and three ring binder versions. I made one as a gift for my mother with a picture of my sister when she was small, now dead from cancer, with the words “Remember Me” embroidered with the picture.
Color Choices: Vintage browns or with blues
All finished journals come with an extra refill and have choices of Plain, with Embroidered Titles, or with cloth sepia photos as listed.
Priced from $32 to $45. (NO FINISHED JOURNALS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME)

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Custom Journals - add $1 per letter for custom lettering. Or, send me your photo and this will be printed on cloth and sewn to your journal. Add $10. Letters and photos may be combined, such as in my example above. Allow 3 weeks for custom choices. Email or call for custom work.

PATTERN #107 Learn how to cover composition books and 3-ring binders.
$9.50 Add to Cart

STACK OF THREE COVERED BOXES
As I have been trying to make my in-the-house workshop more of a room instead of a mess, attractive storage has been a challenge. Since I love fabrics and find displaying them in plain sight a pleasure, I began covering everything from these stacks of boxes to all of the many notebooks and binders of designs and patterns. The results are quite pleasing. And so, here are some of these things for you. Store sewing supplies or art supplies in them or just look at them. These are not only carefully covered on the outside, but lined as well. Sizes are 8”,9” and 10”. Fabrics are choice vintage style prints from the Civil War Era.

Set of 3 $150.00 (No longer available)
Pattern to cover all kinds of boxes - see above Pattern #107-B

PRIMITIVE ANIMALS
I have a small collection of antique primitive cloth animals, but because they are rare, I only have a few - two dogs, two cats, a lamb and one questionable species (dog or rabbit), but charming nonetheless and my favorite one. There is something so straight-to-the-heart about these sweet playthings, often sewn from old coating or other scraps and stuffed with rags. Like primitive dolls whose shapes are often pared down to the essentials (keeping in mind that most of these dear things were not made with patterns), it is this naive look that appeals. Most often one finds them in old dirty whites or browns as these coarser weaves were common, so most of mine will also be in these grungy tones. The patterns will inspire you to make them in many types of fabrics, one more endearing than the next. The animals are divided up into two patterns as well as kits for each one and completely finished.

SIZES OF ANIMALS:
Upright Rabbit 8-1/2" tall
Upright Cat 7"
Sitting Dog 6"
Pig 5"
Crouching Rabbit 5"
Elephant 7"
Crouching Cat 6"
Lamb Pulltoy 7"
Horse Pulltoy 7"

PATTERN PRICES: (Patterns will not be discontinued)
Primitive Animal Pattern #1 (Animals 1 - 5) $18.00 Add to Cart
Primitive Animal Pattern #2 (Animals 6 - 9) $18.00 Add to Cart

KIT PRICES:
SELL OUT PRICE - 50% OFF UNTIL GONE
1 Upright Rabbit $22.00 SOLD OUT
2 Upright Cat $22.00 SOLD OUT
3 Sitting Dog $22.00 Add to Cart
4 Pig $22.00 Add to Cart
5 Lamb $29.00 Add to Cart
6 Elephant $26.00 SOLD OUT
7 Crouching Cat $22.00 Add to Cart
8 Crouching Rabbit $22.00 Add to Cart
9 Horse $26.00 SOLD OUT

FINISHED PRICES (new lower prices):
1 Upright Rabbit $78.00 (No longer available)
2 Upright Cat $36.00 (No longer available)
3 Sitting Dog $58.00 (No longer available)
4 Pig $58.00 (No longer available)
5 Crouching Rabbit $36.00 (No longer available)
6 Elephant $78.00 (No longer available)
7 Crouching Cat $58.00 (No longer available)
8 Lamb Pulltoy $78.00 (No longer available)
9 Horse $78.00 (No longer available)

NEW PRINT PRIMITIVE ANIMALS ~ Large and Small
I couldn't help making up the animals in my favorite prints which are also heavily aged to look old. All of the animals above in their original sizes are available made in prints. Notice the new mini ones which are also available (a few now, all soon) finished and new patterns for these cuties will be available in January 2010.

FINISHED LARGE SIZE PRINT ANIMAL PRICES:
SELL OUT PRICED AT 20% OFF (red numbers show how many in stock)
(1) 8-1/2" Upright Rabbit $78.00 Add to Cart
(2) 6" Sitting Dog $58.00 Add to Cart
(2) 5" Pig $58.00 Add to Cart
(4) 7" Elephant Pulltoy $78.00 Add to Cart
(2) 6" Crouching Cat $58.00 Add to Cart
(1) 7" Lamb Pulltoy $78.00 Add to Cart
(3) 7" Horse Pulltoy $78.00 Add to Cart

FINISHED TINY SIZE PRINT ANIMAL PRICES:
These are now back in stock, but not on sale:
4" Upright Rabbit $38.00 Add to Cart
3" Sitting Dog $32.00 Add to Cart
3" Elephant Pulltoy $38.00 Add to Cart
2-1/2" Crouching Cat $32.00 Add to Cart
3" Horse Pulltoy $38.00 Add to Cart