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Saturday 14 April 2012

Pin Cushion Houses

Hi lovely bloggers!  I have been playing with fabric again :-D  This time I used 3 of the little 3D Tando Houses and turned them into pin cushions!  Such a lot of fun to do.


For all 3 I assembled the houses first (discard the roof pieces).  I attached the doors, windows & any embroidery to the fabrics before I glued onto the bases.  It was a little trickier to make the cushions for the rooves but I ended up making long sausage shapes and then just glueing them in the roofspaces.  You can see that the one on the left was the 1st one as the others are a little neater hahaha!  I just had to make a little needlecase to match as I had one house left!  I cut it down and just covered with fabric, using felt for the 'pages'.


(Don't you just love those scissors?  They were a pressie from my lovely friend GezzyB xxx)

The very pretty fabric came from the lovely  Sandy at the Craft Barn (do a search for the fabric if you can't find it).  Here are the ~Tando Creative~ pieces I used...nekkid...



If you are going the The Craft Barns Extravaganza this year you can have a good look at these houses as they will be on display :-D

Thank you so much for taking a look today, HUGS xxx

13 comments:

tracy said...

OMG!! karen those are so gorgeous:)

Hazel said...

Absolutely amazing!! Gorgeous! I can't stop looking at them! What a wonderful idea for using the houses. x

Angelnorth said...

Cute idea and they turned out beautifully, great job!

Kaz said...

what a fantastic idea Karen, they are gorgeous! xxx

Traceyr said...

Fan blooming tastic Karen! Wow such a lot of skilled work has gone into those little houses. And the needlecase is a wonderful addition too. Well done you.

:)

Janice said...

oh I love these Karen. What a great idea, they are just so sweet.

Gez Butterworth said...

STUNNING Karen! Absolutely fabulous! What a clever crafter! These are to die for!!!

Yeah! I spotted the little scissors! Perfect :-)

Annie said...

Hi Karen. Just wanted to say how lovely your houses are and how clever of you to make them. :-)
Hugs,
A x

Von said...

Brilliant idea Karen but then you always do come up with something different :)
Von x♥x

Gini said...

These are just the bee's knees Karen, clever clever you!!!!
Love the lace gables
Gini
xx
Have a great week :-)

Kathy said...

I LOVE these, Karen!

Julia S-W said...

So perfect Karen! I really do NEED one of these little houses! It's such an original idea too - how clever of you.
Juliaxx

Unknown said...

These are SUPER COOL Karen Tando must be SO proud of you I love these PIN cushions LOTS ha ha Dawn xx