I purchased a charm on a recent trip with the intention of making a pin for a friend. I started by cutting two 7 1/2" squares of fabric and a square of batting. I put them together with spray baste, sandwiching the batting in between the two fabrics. Then I just stitched all over it with various colors of thread. I used variegated thread, metallic thread and polyester thread. I used free-motion stitching and some of the stitches from my machine. Although you can't tell from the picture, I even threaded orange polyester and silver metallic through the same needle and sewed using a pre-programed machine stitch. Here's what it looked like at this point.
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Then I added some lime green fun fur (or eyelash yarn). I just laid it down and zig-zag stitched over the top.
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Then I divided my big square up into a grid of one inch squares. I sewed along my grid lines and cut it apart. Well, actually I just cut off one end and picked a one inch square from that strip. Then I satin stitched around the edges with lime green thread, sewed the charm on the front and then sewed a pin to the back. Voila!
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I've seen this idea called an "inchie." There are probably lots of ways of making inchies and people use them to make jewelry, ornaments, art quilts and more.
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