The Dritz Tomato Pin Cushion comes in a cute tomato design with a strawberry emery attached. The 2-3/4" pin cushion provides a safe place to store pins and needles, and the attached strawberry emery is for sharpening and cleaning pins and needles. Strawberry is filled with emery and used to sharpen pins and needles. Emery is an abrasive powder made from a rock of mostly aluminum oxide. It is a very hard substance and when it is ground, it acts as an abrasive.