Cathedral window pincushion and thread catchers

One of my online groups had a sew-along this month, cathedral windows. I made a pincushion using a tutorial: http://gogokim.blogspot.de/2011/12/cathedral-window-pin-cushion-tutorial.html
The pins don't go in so well, which is too bad, because I like this pincushion pretty well.

Also made some thread catchers using the red hen tutorial. I changed it up quite a bit, but this tute works well anyway. http://www.redhenfabrics.com/images/hiplist/threadcatcher.pdf