Mushroom Pin Cushion with Basket is an easy crochet pattern you can make in a weekend. It’s darling to display but even more fun to use. It’s the perfect size for collecting yarn snips (or candy wrapper). If you like to sew or embroider, it’s great for tossing thread snips as well. Or, you could store notions it it for crochet, knitting, weaving, sewing and quilting.
I, Dana, woke up one day with a vision for mushrooms on a grassy knoll. I wasn’t sure if I could recreate my vision…but it came out pretty much as I’d envisioned it. I love that it can be decorated with straight pins. I love that it’s cute…and practical at the same time.
About the Mushroom Pin Cushion and Project Bag Crochet Pattern
The crochet pattern includes everything you need to recreate a mushroom pin cushion with basket of your own. It includes:
- Mushroom in 2 sizes
- Basket
- Connector Piece
- Tab for holding mini scissors, crochet hook and pencil
- Step by step written instructions
- Written in US terms
The size is great for putting on a side table, arm of a chair or at your work table. My mushroom and basket has a permanant home on my desk which doubles as my sewing table. The measurements are approximately:
- Pin Cushion: 5.75″ wide x 5.75″ deep x 3.5″ tall
- Basket: 4″ wide x 4″ deep x 5″ tall
The crochet pattern is rated easy because there aren’t lots of stitch patterns. It is made with stitches as small as a slip stitch and as large as a double treble. Pieces are worked in the round and in rows. It’s interesting to note that the same stitch pattern is used on the bean bag (base of pin cushion) and on the basket. But they look different because one is crocheted in rows and the other in the round.
Mushroom Pin Cushion and Basket on Etsy
The Mushroom Pin Cushion and Basket first appeared in Crochet World Summer 2024. We have the rights back to sell direct to you. Find it now in our Etsy Shop.
The Mushroom Pin Cushion and Basket is So Useful!
One of the things I love most about this Mushroom Pin Cushion with Basket is that it’s useful for lots of different hobbies. It has a little tab sewn to the lining with 3 sections to hold small things like pencils, mini scissors and crochet hooks. Here are my favorite ways to use the mushroom pin cushion and basket…and yes, I’ve used it for each of these things:
- Project bag
- Yarn snips trash basket (for knitting, crochet and weaving)
- Thread keeper (trash basket) (for sewing, quilting and embroidery)
- Notions keeper (sewing clips, stitch markers, etc).
Yarn for Mushroom Pin Cushion and Basket
The yarn used to make the Mushroom Pin Cushion and Basket is Cascade 220 Superwash Sport. It’s a light weight (size 3) superwash merino wool yarn. As of today, it comes in 83 colors! We chose this yarn specifically for color options and yarn weight. It is thin enough to create beautiful stitch definition and sturdy enough to hold the 3D shape of the mushrooms (with fiber-fill stuffing inside).
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