pincushion mason jar

I've seen these adorable creations all over the internet lately.  Have you?  Well, I decided I needed to have one.  And, as it happens, I had some scrap fabric and some extra batting, and I always have mason jars around. (Yes, I know.)

So! I set to work trying to create one.  Turns out they're pretty easy.  I searched all over the internet for a few good tutorials and decided to gather my favorite parts of each of them into my own tutorial. Here goes!

Supplies:

First, use the lid insert thing to cut out an over-sized circle.  It should be at least an inch bigger all the way around (2 inches if you're measuring diameter). I made mine larger because it was my first one and I was worried it would be too small.

Next, put the batting between the lid and the fabric.

Next, use your handy hot glue gun to start gluing down the sides of the fabric to the underside of the lid.  I pulled it reasonably tight without distorting the fabric.  I also tried to glue everything down as evenly as possible.

Then, I trimmed the leftover fabric to make it as flat as possible.  You could be done after this step if you wanted.

While this could be finished now, I thought maybe it would be nice to wrap up all those loose fabric bit. To the trusty bag of paper!  I cut out a little circle of paper and hot glued it to the bottom.

Add it to your jar with the screw on lid, and voila! A handy jar to keep your pins, notions, sewing bits, buttons, thread, or whatever you please.