Crocheted Tea Cup Pincushion

With some imagination, you can turn an old tea cup into a pretty pin cushion.

Approximate Time: 1 hour to 1.5 hours

Supplies:

• tea cup with or without saucer
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• your choice of yarn
• size 5.5 mm hook
• hot glue gun
• E6000 or contact cement
• sewing embellishments
• scrap lace or ribbon

Instructions:

1. Decorate the cup before you cement it to the saucer.
2. With your chain one on hook, chain another and make a single crochet in first chain. Make one single crochet in the back loop of each single crochet.
3. Do not start or end a row, just keep making a big spiral.
4. When you have a circle almost the width of the cup, break off that color and add another, making a ruffle of chain three and slip stitch in each stitch around.
5. Fill the cup with batting, and hot glue the crocheted work to the brim a little at a time.
6. Decorate with buttons, anything little like sewing embellishments, etc.
7. Glue the cup to the saucer and tie a lace or ribbon bow around the bottom.
8. Let the glue sit over night before disturbing.

Enjoy.

By Sandra from Yorktown, VA