Pauline's Pincushions
this page is reserved to show off the wonderful lavendar pinchshions, Pauline has made and sent
around the world. The plan was for the receiver to make a lace edging for this gift.

pattern of "Hearts and Spiders" by Adrienne Quinlan
 

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Here is Sulochona (Dr.  S K Choudhary)
of India's pincushion. 

"The edging is extremely simple, spiders and fans, as I wanted to make something fairly quickly, only the working in the black seed beads took a little time. However,  the *exact* colour match of the thread and the black beads makes
it look glamorous , as least I think so ! I also twisted in gold embroidery thread on the footside passive, which are not really very obvious on the photo, they would have been more prominent on the fanside passive,  I  now think. "
 
Here is the pincushion of Lauren Snyder 
of Snohomish, WA.

"I made Pauline a tatted bookmark in thanks, and the tail of the bookmark was a ring and chain pattern with another chain on top of the rings. The rings are not  attatched to each other, just the top and bottom chains.
It was made in size 30 thread. 
Then I decided to take the tail, add a few beads, and use that as the edging. Now, if I had to do it again, I probably would have left the top chain off, as that made it hard to gather. It would have been much easier
to just sew the tops of the rings to the heart, adjusting spacing for the gathering. Oh, well, live and learn. I will enjoy this pincushion on my bobbin lace pillow. "
Here is the Pincushion of Lori Howe- Augusta. Maine

" I must admit I didn't make my lace. It was part of some LePuy I bought on ebay. There was a lage piece of this lace and a short one just the right length for my pinchshion. They arrived in the mail the same day so I knew they wanted to be together."
 
 Jean Barrett, in Cleveland, U.K.

"I chose a design based on the pattern 'Little Heart of Denmark' because my heart goes out to Paulines for her generosity in making and sending all these gifts to Arachnians everywhere. The edging was made
with black 50 cotton, DMC Fil d'Or edge passives, Kreinik fine braid as a gimp round the hearts and workers in the hearts of fine red metallic and black machine thread, make unknown. "

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