This morning, we’re going to head into the final stretch on creating your own Bee-Jeweled Pincushion – the finish work! This is where we construct the pincushion into something beautiful and serviceable.

Now, this is The Thing about finishing: it is a multi-step process. To make it as clear as I can, I’m including a lot of photos in the process. In order to accommodate the whole process here on the blog, it will be broken into multiple parts, which I’ll publish over the next several articles.

If this is the first time you’ve built a pincushion or something similar and you are hesitant or a little worried about the finishing process, I recommend waiting until all the articles on finishing the pincushion are published before you start finishing your project into a pincushion. There are some steps below that you can do ahead of time, though, to prepare your work.

If you’ve finished embroidery projects into things like pincushions before and you’re confident about what you’re doing, then you can probably guess where I’m going with each step of the process and you can most likely move ahead and finish your pincushion with techniques that you’re already familiar with.