IAmCatOwned

Emery is what is in the strawberry attached to those tomato pincushions. I bought emery to fill some pincushions. Not dusty so much as difficult to buy in smaller quantities (I bought mine from Etsy).

sewbeadit

You can hear the pins crunching through the emery and the sand ones and it is really tight in there. I usually throw bad pins away also and I rarely have to buy new pins, because of the strawberry. Soap has been used for many years for pin cushions. I usually throw away pins because they become bent more than dull.