1)What kind of spying was Mr.Stowe doing? 2)Where and how did the police catch him? 3)What does Alice do and why is she called "the general"? 4)Why did Kezia made the pincushion?
It is because her grand mother informed her of her father's birthday and suggested she should make him a pincushion for a present.
Then, why her grandmother said that? I think it is because that her father is not just a writer but an artist who writes a picture with various threads. The reason why I think so lies in sentence. Page 86, line 3 there are words 'his beautiful writing '.
In addition, pincushion can be made so easily that she, only a little girl, had enough skill to make it. Her grandmother understood that and told her to make it.
In a story, Kezia feared and avoided her father before she was treated tenderly by him. If it had not been for grandmother's suggestion, she would have not made her father a pincushion. Therefore, the answer to the question 'why did Kezia make the pincusion?' is grandmother's suggestion.