What's In My Sewing Box?

I'm nosy by nature, last year I saw two lads stealing bits of the fridge my neighbours had dumped outside and I managed to give them an accurate description, time frame and the make of the vehicle as well as the number plate. I am what is referred to in my family as a net curtain twitcher. I love to be nosy which I think is why I loved housed hunting so much and why I'm always intrigued when people post pictures of their sewing stashes and sewing boxes.

So here's mine:~

So here's what I keep my basic sewing supplies in, these are the things I used every day. The box was my mums I think she had it when she was younger and she mentioned using it to take things to peoples house's for sleepovers, then I think she stored baby clothes in it. 

No idea where the key is, I just push down the lock to open it.

I decorated the lid with some of my favourite postcards.

And here it is all full up!

These are my scissors [yeah I know it seems like over kill]

i have [ from the top]

paper scissors

rotary cutter

pinking shears

large paper scissors

Old metal fabric scissors [sentimental]

Old pinking shears [also sentimental]

flowered fabric scissors

black fabric scissors

small card crimping scissors for doing tags.

Three pin cushions!

My old sylko one [previously my grandmas]

My purple pin cushion bag [made at school]

My tie on wrist one

Voodoo doll [because I'm evil and stuff]

Glue [not sure why I have this? it just appeared]

Craft knife, best way of removing buttons from old shirts!

Clear Tape

Masking Tape [best way of fixing paper patterns because you can draw on it and you can iron it]

Carbon paper, This was recently given to me and I've not had chance to use it yet!

My handmade tailors ham and my flexy curve thingy - this was originally my grandmas.

Machine oil, I've recently been trying to take better care of my machines by oiling them more often. I keep this in a zip lock bag so it doesn't spill everywhere. 

Pens and pencils of various natures.

This is my little bag where I keep all of my smaller sewing bits that might get lost in the chaos of scissors!

In my little bag:

pot of chalk

unpicker

6 screwdrivers

tweezers

black pen

snips

needle book

zubes tin of pins

giant paper clip

four flexible tape measures

small blue paper clip

machine needle book

golf ball shaped metal tape measure

tine of machine needles

seam allowance tool

butterfly pencil and rubber

walking foot

And that's it! all my other supplies are stashed in various other places, so I hope you enjoyed having a nosy around my sewing box! What's in yours?

Much Love 

Frankie

xxx

The Magic Pen!

Please tell me I'm not the only one who has only just discovered the magic of the frixions pen?

I first read about them on Karens blog.

Basically this is a regular pen that's disappears when you iron it! It DISAPPEARS! and then if you put it in the freezer it come back!!! 

In all seriousness this pen has changed my fabric marking game, I'm no longer worried about having smudges on my finished garment , its more accurate and it doesn't come off as fast as tailors chalk! 

And the best part these are just regular pens! They stock them in Tesco! IN TESCO!

Yeah that's really it today just my wonder about this pen! I have two now one in red and one in blue so I can clearly see my markings on most fabric!

Is their any other tools you couldn't live without?

Much Love 

Frankie

xxx

Snip snip!

A wise man once told me that a workman is only as good as his tools...

Another wise man also told me that a good workman never blames his tools...

I'm not really sure what to take away from this apart from that workmen (and women) should have tools! 

So I treated myself to a new pair of snips! 

I had a wonderful pair of embroidery scissors but appear to have ahem misplaced them! I know that my mother has an identical pair but she's already hidden them from my light fingers! There's just no trust anymore! 

I picked these up off amazon for under £2.00 and they had free postage! To be honest my expectations weren't high! But they are small and surprisingly sharp! 

Colour me impressed! 

Perfect for snipping threads and stray wool bits! Providing I don't loose them of course! 

What tools can't you live without? 

Much love

Frankie

Xxx