Seeds

While working on my current project, I started as a potential leader and ender project, this:

This is a bear paw block--one quarter of it anyway as they are grouped into four (bears have four paws), each facing a different direction. I used my new AccuQuilt cutter and some scrap fabric to cut the components for this block. It's smaller than I usually like to work--the red and blue half-square triangles finish at two-and-a-half inches, smaller than my patience usually allows. 

This charming little thing came in the mail yesterday.

It's a small pincushion (not really that small, but the maker calls it small). I ordered it from a woman on Etsy who calls her business "Dolls and their Girls." She makes them by hand and they are very well made.

 

The print is a Tula Pink holiday print. I love it. In fact, several years ago I had a very small bit of it in a different colorway and used it to make two needle books, one large for at home and one small travel one.

Because we don't really travel anymore, I don't use the travel one. (It used to live in my work bag.) And because of my arthritis, I rarely use the at home one.

I have two pin cushions from the same maker. One I actually use as a pin cushion. The new racoon one is going to just be for show.

I don't collect many things (besides books and fabric), but these pin cushions? The Brain likes them. I can see having more.