Ruth's Christmas baking

This is the year of the sheep for me, learning to recognize a few different sheep breeds and carding and spinning a couple of fleeces. So here is my Christmas gingerbread.

Great idea for pin heads!

Thanks, Ruth.  The felt works great.  And the hole punch idea was fantastic.  (Would have been even more fantastic if my hole punch were  bit sharper and didn’t chew off one side of the circle.  Nothing a sharp pair of snips couldn’t deal with, however.)

I have just glued the circles on.  Once the glue dries I’ll investigate tacking them on with a couple of stitches.  I don’t really care to find 5 different colours of thread, but it’s either do this or go write Christmas cards, and we know which will win!

 

How to make pin heads

I’ve made a “mug rug”.  I want to give it to my friend Donna because she has given me a new little red tomato pin cushion to replace the old one of Mum’s that reached the end of its life.  See this post on my quilting blog.

 

The pincushion part was a lonely paper-pieced block that I made years ago.  The strips of fabric at the end are from a couple of projects that Donna and I worked on together.  You may be able to see that I’ve stitched some “pins” with metallic thread.  My problem is that the pins need heads (so they don’t get lost inside!)  I had thought to use buttons, then realized that might interfere with this actually being used to put a mug on.  I tried sequins (from Lesley’s Soup Mix bag),  but they didn’t work either.  I’m thinking I will have to resort to embroidering flat satin stitch circles, but I’m doubtful of my ability to get them anywhere close to round. 

Any suggestions?