Pincushion "Mushroom"

Many people still have buckets of mayonnaise at home. Some people make flower pots out of them, others leave them for the garden, but most simply throw them away. This master class is exactly for those people who don’t know what to do with these buckets. I would like to invite you to make a beautiful and functional pincushion from a mayonnaise bucket.
For this we need:
- Bucket.
- Scissors.
- Fabric in grey, brown and green.
- Threads to match the color of the fabric.
- Needle.
- Foam rubber.
- Soap.
- Tape measure.
- Paper.
Let's work on the mushroom stem first. Let's take a bucket, measure the required number of centimeters from bottom to top (I measured 8 cm), and cut off the rest. It’s just that the bucket is high and the mushroom will not look beautiful.




Now take a measuring tape and measure the circumference and height of the bucket from the inside. From gray fabric, cut out a strip according to these measurements, taking into account seam allowances. You will also need to measure the circumference of the bottom of the bucket, also from the inside. You will need to cut out a circle of the required size from the fabric.



Fold the strip in half with the right side facing inward and sew along the edge.



It turns out to be a kind of sleeve. Now you need to sew on a round-shaped part so that you get a bag.Don't forget that the right side of the fabric should be on the inside.



Now we do everything the same, but we take measurements from the outside of the bucket and sew the same bag. Then we turn it inside out. As a result, we ended up with two bags: one larger (front side out), the second smaller (right side inward). We put a larger bag on the bucket, and insert a second bag inside.




Now you need to sew the blanks together along the edge.



Cut a strip of green fabric 32 centimeters long and as high as you like. We will make grass from this strip. Just cut out triangles of different heights without cutting to the end of the fabric. As you already understood, the wider your stripe, the taller the grass will be.



Let's put the grass along the bottom of the bucket, securing it with threads. I did not sew the ends of the grass so that the grass would look natural.



The mushroom stem is ready. Now let's take care of the hat. To do this, let's take foam rubber. Place the bucket lid on it and circle it. Add another 1-2 centimeters to the resulting circle and cut it out.



We cut the upper edge of the circle at an angle, giving a rounded volume to the head blank.



We will need to cut out two round pieces from brown fabric. To do this, put a foam blank on the fabric, circle it with a piece of soap, add 1 centimeter to this circle and cut out the part, call it “A”. We will do the next part in exactly the same way, only we will add 5 centimeters. We cut that out too. This will be part "B".



Now we place part “A” with its front side on the table, put foam rubber on top, with the convex side up. Place part “B” on it with the front side facing out. Sew it so that the seam is on the bottom.If desired, you can place a bucket lid between part “A” and the foam rubber for rigidity.



The mushroom cap is almost ready. Now we take paper and draw a leaf on it. Cut it out. This will be a pattern.



Place the pattern on green fabric and cut out a leaf. Only I cut it without a stick.



Sew it to the hat.



I embroidered the stick using a regular wide stitch using brown threads.



Now you need to sew the hat from the inside to the leg. I showed the seam location in the photo.



The pincushion is ready. Inside the fungus you can store threads, buttons or other small items for sewing, and you can always stick needles into the hat.




This mushroom can be used as a pincushion, or it can be used simply as a box for small items.