Some days deserve to be remembered! This cheerful Christian greeting card features an original watercolor by Twila Farmer of a classic tomato pincushion, paired with a playful reminder to “Stick a Pin in It!”
Cover:
Stick a Pin in It!
Inside:
Some days are worth remembering. Today is one of them!
“This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
—Psalm 118:24
Back:
The first pincushions appeared in the Middle Ages when costly pins and needles needed a safe place to be stored. According to a bit of sewing folklore, placing a tomato on the mantel of a new home was thought to bring prosperity. So what to do when tomatoes were out of season? Fill a fabric tomato with sawdust and stick pins in it, of course! By the Victorian era, pincushions had become decorative collectibles. The familiar tomato eventually gained its little companion, a strawberry on a string filled with emery powder for cleaning and sharpening needles. And we’ve been sticking pins into stuffed tomatoes ever since!
Some days deserve to be remembered! This cheerful Christian greeting card features an original watercolor by Twila Farmer of a classic tomato pincushion, paired with a playful reminder to “Stick a Pin in It!”
Cover:
Stick a Pin in It!
Inside:
Some days are worth remembering. Today is one of them!
“This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
—Psalm 118:24
Back:
The first pincushions appeared in the Middle Ages when costly pins and needles needed a safe place to be stored. According to a bit of sewing folklore, placing a tomato on the mantel of a new home was thought to bring prosperity. So what to do when tomatoes were out of season? Fill a fabric tomato with sawdust and stick pins in it, of course! By the Victorian era, pincushions had become decorative collectibles. The familiar tomato eventually gained its little companion, a strawberry on a string filled with emery powder for cleaning and sharpening needles. And we’ve been sticking pins into stuffed tomatoes ever since!
