I love all the different pin cushions that are out now days. I also like making my own one of a kind unique pin cushions, but I still like the tomato pin cushion. :)
So...how did the strawberry end up as the emery, and why, since pins and needles still get burrs/rough spots, are emery bags either disappearing totally or, worse, being filled batting or sawdust instead of emery? Hint: emery is not expensive, and the alternatives used don't "clean up" the pins and needles.
I've seen some Victorian pin cushions completely filled with emery powder. I suspect the strawberry is just to be cheap. Why fill a whole tomato with emery powder, when you can add a tiny bag onto the pin cushion. By the way, you can buy emery powder and make your own pin cushion.
Hello! I finally get to sit with my hand quilting today and watch your video. I hope you have a joyful week ahead! Thank you for posting this video and sharing your time.
I dunno... maybe the shape of the tomato was more compact than eggplants or carrots, without having a "skinny end" that a pin might go all the way through? And the bright red color made it easier to spot, ensuring that you'd remember to put it safely away before your kid woke up from their nap?
Hmmm...cultural difference...I didn't know that pincushions are always the tomatoes. My pincushion had never been a tomato. But, of course, I make my own...😊 Thanks for an insightful and enlightening video.....the ignoramus in me... Like my grandmother used to tell me..never too old to learn new facts... Thanks for sharing..💝💐
Okay, let's clear something up. By the time tomatoes were the default shape of a pin cushion, people had been eating tomatoes regularly for a couple of hundred years in the west. The eating of tomatoes was something done in various parts of Europe (Italy and other Mediterranean countries) by the 1600s. Other countries like England and the America's did not really begin to eat the until the early 1800s. But by the late Victorian Era, the tomato was not usual. The tomato pin cushion became common because it was a convenient shape, and once it became mass produced with emery powder in a little strawberry (another easy cute shape), it was just cheap and more worthwhile to purchase than make. Throughout the Victorian Era vegetable shapes of all kind were used. Mass production made the tomato dominant. Your source, Martha Stewart, is full of crap. This is how bad history keeps perpetuating. She probably got it from another bad source. One person takes bad research and it gets repeated endlessly.
I absolutely love your videos. They are super informative and fun
I love all the different pin cushions that are out now days. I also like making my own one of a kind unique pin cushions, but I still like the tomato pin cushion. :)
So...how did the strawberry end up as the emery, and why, since pins and needles still get burrs/rough spots, are emery bags either disappearing totally or, worse, being filled batting or sawdust instead of emery? Hint: emery is not expensive, and the alternatives used don't "clean up" the pins and needles.
I've seen some Victorian pin cushions completely filled with emery powder. I suspect the strawberry is just to be cheap. Why fill a whole tomato with emery powder, when you can add a tiny bag onto the pin cushion. By the way, you can buy emery powder and make your own pin cushion.
Hello! I finally get to sit with my hand quilting today and watch your video. I hope you have a joyful week ahead! Thank you for posting this video and sharing your time.
Thank you!!!
Is this like throwback Thursday Tova??!?
BTW, is it possible you can make a video on how to enlarge a skirt that you love, but grew out of. Thank you!
I dunno... maybe the shape of the tomato was more compact than eggplants or carrots, without having a "skinny end" that a pin might go all the way through? And the bright red color made it easier to spot, ensuring that you'd remember to put it safely away before your kid woke up from their nap?
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now I need to make an eggplant pincushion
Omg! This is so funny!
Hmmm...cultural difference...I didn't know that pincushions are always the tomatoes.
My pincushion had never been a tomato. But, of course, I make my own...😊
Thanks for an insightful and enlightening video.....the ignoramus in me...
Like my grandmother used to tell me..never too old to learn new facts...
Thanks for sharing..💝💐
So curious where you’re from! In the USA they’re very often tomatoes
Okay, let's clear something up. By the time tomatoes were the default shape of a pin cushion, people had been eating tomatoes regularly for a couple of hundred years in the west. The eating of tomatoes was something done in various parts of Europe (Italy and other Mediterranean countries) by the 1600s. Other countries like England and the America's did not really begin to eat the until the early 1800s. But by the late Victorian Era, the tomato was not usual. The tomato pin cushion became common because it was a convenient shape, and once it became mass produced with emery powder in a little strawberry (another easy cute shape), it was just cheap and more worthwhile to purchase than make. Throughout the Victorian Era vegetable shapes of all kind were used. Mass production made the tomato dominant. Your source, Martha Stewart, is full of crap. This is how bad history keeps perpetuating. She probably got it from another bad source. One person takes bad research and it gets repeated endlessly.