A pincushion was for many years, and indeed is still, in some parts
of New England, a highly conventional gift to a mother with a young
babe. Mrs. Deming must have made many of these cushions. One of her
manufacture still exists. It is about five inches long and three
inches wide; one side is of white silk stuck around the edge with
old-fashioned clumsy pins, with the words, "John Winslow March 1783.
Welcome Little Stranger." The other side is of gray satin with green
spots, with a cluster of pins in the centre, and other pins winding
around in a vine and forming a row round the edge.