I like having pincushions around… and the prettier the better.

PLUS it helps if you can upcycle a tea cup that is either from the thrift store or the far reaches of your cupboard and make it into something useful again.

I found this particular tea cup at a craft store, there were all kinds of different prints and they had a variety of fat quarters too.

I filled the cup to over flowing with batting and cut a large circle of fabric left over from another project.

Then I covered the top of the cup and tucked the fabric down in the tea cup. I used a pair of closed scissors to tuck the fabric deep into the bottom of the cup.

Then, I used my hot glue gun, and while holding the filling back from the rim of the cup I filled the space with hot glue and then let the filling go back in place.You could also glue the cup to the saucer and use the saucer to hold thimbles, thread and small scissors.

That’ll pretty up your sewing space in a jiffy! 🙂

This could be further decorated with charms to hang off the handle or some of the pins, using crazy decorative pins or even beads. Oh, and if you want a more vintage look on a newer cup you could grunge it up with alcohol inks… Of course you could always use the tea cup for tea but who uses things for their intended purpose? Not me! 🙂