Pincushion With a Solid Base

I am not a tidy person but when I do any crafts I do want my supplies be reachable and easy to access. I don't want to think about where I put them or how to arrange them. They should just be there in a way for me to use them as easily as possible.
Needles.
They fall down and are out of sight until an unwary toe finds them. Or they sit in a little box, impossible to grab them.
I thought about getting a pincushion but only found ones that are so soft that the neeldes poke through and into hands or tables (or toes). Or they are very lightweight, so that handling them with only one hand is impossible since it fleds the needle.
I needed something more suitable for me with a sturdy base and so I wandered around the house and gathered some supplies.

Supplies

Materials I gathered

- Lid of a jar, mine is about 7cm in diameter and 1,5cm in height

- some cardboard, in my case an old postcard

- hot glue

- some weight, I used some leftover grit

- piece of fabric to cover the base

- piece of fabric to cover the cushion (I used some fluffy material where holes would not be visible)

- cushioning Cotton

- thread

Supplies I used

- hot glue gun

- scissors

- x-acto knife

- needle

The Base

I started with the base. I covered the lid in glue, added the grit and sealed it with some more glue. Make sure it is filled to the top.
I think I used 2 glue sticks in total.
While the glue is still warm put the cardboard on top of it, turn it over and press is flat on the table or whatever surface you may be using. Once it has cooled down, cut the excess cardboard to fit the size of the lid with the x-acto knife.

The Base Cover

Now we don't want our pincushion look like the ugly lid with a cardboard cover it is, so we make it pretty.
To do so, take the fabric (not the fluffy one) and place it under the lid-base. Cut it generously so it covers the sides and a bit of the top. I used a bit more than necessary, but never mind. We won't see it in the end.
Take needle and thread and weave through the fabric, near the edge. Make sure to hold both ends of the thread. (No need to finish off the edges, this piece will never go into the washing machine.)
Decide whatever side you want to be downward facing (I decided on the cardboard to be the bottom, but choose what you like).
Now put the fabric underneath it and take the ends of your thread to close the fabric around the lid like a purse.
Make a nice and secure knot. If you want to, you can do some more stitches to secure it even more and have the fabric evenly spread around the edges.

The Cushion

This time you take the other fabric and make another circle. I think mine was just about the same size - I didn't measure it, just eyeball it. Take another thread to make another weave at this edge. You can pull the ends a bit so that you have something like half a globe
Take your cushioning Cotton and put it inside. It should be pretty firm but it doesn't need to be super stiff.

Attaching the Cushion to the Base

Title says it all. Place your cushion on top of the base. The ugly side with the know should be facing up since you want to cover that one.
This time I used a yellow thread, that would be invisible when finished.
I secured it with a simple running stitch and hid the end.

That's all. I think it took me about an hour from finding the materials to the finished cushion.

Final Thoughts

It is my first instructable and I know that I am not good when it comes to explaning things. I just hope that I included enough pictures so that you don't need my text :)

Also English is not my native language and my auto correction tries to trick me into non-English words. So sorry for anything that sounds weird.