Okay, I adore cupcakes. If you give me a choice between cupcakes and cake, I’m going to pick cupcakes every time. They are cute, colorful, and just the perfect little mouthful of goodness. . . You know what I mean?
This craft combines one thing I love (cupcakes) along with another thing I love (recycling), to create something I can use to do yet another thing I love (sewing). The finished product is a tiny little pincushion that looks like a cupcake. So much love from such a tiny craft is an awesome thing!
You will need:
-Scissors
-Needle
-Felt (in your choice of cupcake colors, use EcoSpun felt as it is made with recycled plastics)
-Embroidery Thread (in colors that match your felt choices)
-Polyfil Stuffing
-Plastic Bottlecap
-Glue (I used Fabri-Tac, but a glue gun or E-6000 glue will work)
-Optional: buttons/felt bits/charms for your cupcake
Step 1
Make a small mark on the top of your bottlecap. Run the bottlecap down the edge of your felt to get a measurement that is the circumference of your bottlecap top.
Step 2
Cut out this strip of felt. Wrap it around your bottlecap and secure it with a touch of glue.
Step 3
Trace the bottom of your bottlecap. Cut it out.
Step 4
Attach the felt bottom to your bottlecap by running a blanket stitch (the tutorial for the blanket stitch is available in the sachet how-to) around the circumference of your bottlecap.
Step 5
Draw a circle with a 3.5” to 4” diameter on a piece of felt (this will be the top of your cupcake) and cut it out.
Step 6
Decorate the very middle of the felt circle (about 1” wide). This will be the top of your cupcake.
Step 7
Run a 1” stitch around the edges of your felt circle. Keep the needle attached.
Step 8
Pull the thread hanging off the felt circle to make a pocket. Stuff the pocket full of polyfil and pull tight. You want to pack the pocket very densely so the pincushion will be strong enough to hold pins securely.
Step 9
Pull the thread tight to close the pocket. Wrap the thread around the base of the pocket several times to and then stitch and knot a few times to keep it secure. Trim the extra bit of felt hanging off the pocket (you don’t want too much because this is the part that is going to sit down in your bottlecap). Do not cut off the extra thread!
Step 10
With the thread still attached, place the polyfil pocket into your bottlecap.
Step 11
Run a blanket stitch around the pocket to attach the polyfil pocket (the top of your cupcake) to the bottom of your cupcake. Secure with a tight knot
Step 12
Voila! You are now the proud owner of a wee little cupcake pincushion! And, FYI, a tiny pincushion with a needle book (the next how-to I plan to post), thread and tiny scissors would make a darling sewing kit as a holiday gift for the crafty-minded.
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Oh my goodness! That is the most adorable ever! I LOVE it and will so have to make one!
You know it's been said that cupcakes are the femmes of baked goods (by Sinclair, I believe). How perfect!
You always share the most adorable craftyness!
So cute, agree with Scarlet Lotus Sexgeek...
nurul’s last blog post..Cupcake Huda : Woman's Hat
these are the cutest things in the WORLD
mine is sitting on my desk 
and i think that cupcakes are the most adorable femme baked good in the world 
Hinterland you are a miracle. These are amazing little things.
And Scarlet, actually, to clarify, I said that Cupcakes are the Queer Fat Femmes of Baked Goods (I did a whole performance piece on this at the Femme Conference) and prompted Sinclair and I to debate what butches are in baked goods. I think rice krispie treats (simple, delicious, widely adored).
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