The Eight Pointed Civil War Pincushion...

The Eight Pointed Civil War Pincushion...

My hands have been busy gathering lovely

textures and colors of wool fabric  

and stitching, stitching, stitching !

Each pincushion is topped with 

hand cut wool pennies and 'Penny Pins'.

The Eight Pointed Civil War Pincushions
can be found in my Studio.

These Civil War Pincushions are filled with 

crushed walnut shells.  They have some weight to them

and are fairly large...

'tip to tip' they are 8.5 in. x 3.5 in. high.

Underside of pincushion

After making a few, I did some research on

the 'Eight Pointed Civil War Pincushion'.

While they have been made for many generations,

I was not able to find any authentic reference in

any reenactor periodicals or written historic information,

regarding any civil war significance.

It has been written that is is "likely" that stitchers of the 

Civil War era created these pincushions from remnants

of fabric and used 'buckshot' to fill them.

Even if it is only 'likely' they were made 

during the early 1860's, I still love their 

big 'personality' and usefulness ! 
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I am loving this...

(pinterest)

Enjoy your week !
Rose