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| JeanP |
Posted - Feb 11 2022 : 12:39:30 PM
 I hope y'all can enlarge it ehough to read. And I learned this MANY years ago - before throwing away a pincushion tomato, carefully break it open. You will likely find MANY MANY MANY needles inside!
jean
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
. . . .Stephen Hawking |
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| Jokamartell |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 5:44:27 PM
Jean, you share the coolest stories. I am learning sew much from your postings!! :)
Karen :) |
| katmom |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 2:02:26 PM
Judith, funny you mentioned the needles & tweezers...
Every time I score an old sewing basket, first thing I do is grab a magnet and tweezers,, and pull out/up the sewing needles that have worked their way down in the puffy lid where pins and needles were poked into for keeping handy.
Lol!
>^..^<
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| StitchinWitch |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 12:22:03 PM
When I was a child my mother would let me "squeeze" the needles and pin out of the tomato. Tweezers help save your fingers.
Judith
7932 FGOTM 6/21
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 09:03:21 AM
I never knew this about the tomato pincushion either. I have one that belonged to my Mom. It was in her sewing machine drawer when she gave me her machine before she moved into assisted living. Thanks Jean for posting this very interesting bit of history! I enjoyed learning about it.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 06:53:43 AM
My late mother had a tomato pincushion. Thanks for showing me the picture of yours, it helped me remember when my mom used to sew when I was a small child.
Dawn in IL
"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Japanese Proverb |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Feb 12 2022 : 06:09:06 AM
Thats interesting. adding that to a list of things I never thought of.
Something to learn everyday. Now every time I see a tomato pin cushion
I will think of that.
Nancy Jo
NANCY JO |
| katmom |
Posted - Feb 11 2022 : 11:11:11 PM
Thanx for sharing Jean, what a sweet folk lore,,,
Remember buying those wicker sewing baskets, they came with a plastic measuring tape, tomato pin cushion a thimble and some needles.
I don't think the new/modern sewing baskets come with anything now.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| Dreamer42 |
Posted - Feb 11 2022 : 3:15:56 PM
I've read that somewhere before and had forgotten! Thank you for the reminder and joy in reading!! xo
Dreamer42
Farmgirl Sister #7038 |
| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Feb 11 2022 : 1:24:05 PM
Jean, that is neat. I know my mom has one of those. I will have to pass this information on to her.
Krista |
| Blessed in Colorado |
Posted - Feb 11 2022 : 12:56:46 PM
Interesting Jean, I never knew that. But, not sure I want to open the ones I have collected over the years. But then again I maybe desperate for a needle one day!
Thank you for sharing.
Big Hugs,
Debbie
#1582
Blessed in Oregon
With Colorado on My Mind
Farmgirl of the Month September 2012 and February 2018
“My altars are My Mountains
and the Ocean.” Lord Byron”
When I am Old I Shall Wear Purple !!
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