just a quick sketch

have this been done before?

I dont think I have seen this before, I look forward to you developing it :)

ok

hurm how do i make the needle pillow look more obvious

I like it and I pretty much knew what it was straight away. But if you want to make it more obvious, I guess you could put a small cotton reel or the edge of one or something that relates to a pin cushion.

I wouldn't know it's a needle pillow unless you pointed it out, so maybe you should work on making it more obvious for a casual look, right now it doesn't really look like a pillow, it has too many wrinkles, i guess

check out this design of mine

http://www.threadless.com/critique/59401/Guitar_Your_Heart_Out#lastcomment

aheuaheaeaaheua, funny, only improves in the details, the idea is excellent!