Thursday 8 November 2012

My first craft kit

While watching my little ladybird, Renee, recently as she learnt how to thread a needle and do a basic stitch, a crafty idea popped into my head...


...I told you my girls inspire me...


...I put together a little sewing kit, and then I thought I would expand on it to incorporate other handcrafts.

It didn't cost anything at all, as I already had the items laying about the place.  I used an old cardboard nesting suitcase and filled it with lots of bits and pieces.  There are scissors, a seam ripper, fabric, ribbons and buttons, a thimble, tape measure, embroidery thread, pins and a little mouse pincushion I made.  There's wool and knitting needles too.  The most time-consuming part was glueing elastic strips on the lid to hold the scissors, thimble and seam ripper in place. I will add to the kit as time goes on, depending on where her interests lie.  You may recognize the paper I used to line the lid and cover the button box - I knew I would find a use for it.


Marvelling at my own marvelousness, I looked online to see if anyone else had already thought of doing this commercially.  Naturally, they had.  Stinkballs of fire.  And they are a million times better than my version, but I won't tell her that if you won't.

4 comments:

  1. Cool surprise present! And love the paper

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    1. Thanks Sara (where do you find the time to read this blog by the way??). Wish I'd had one of these as a kid, there's nothing quite like foraging through a box of treasures.

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  2. I seem to have missed this post. But as I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night I've now found it. I have brought funky tins, maybe 2 months ago, to do something similar with for a green life. It's just a matter of getting all 'the things lying about the place' into one place, namely the tin. It sounds easy but appears not to be. PS. Awesome work with the paper looking forward to seeing what colour the chair is going to be.

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    1. Well, I am glad you like my blog enough to even want to read it on a Saturday night. Selling mini craft kits is a great little idea, I am sure there would be a market for them. My one is quite obviously a very preloved one, but brand, spanking shiny new ones would just walk off your market stall table, I am sure. That chair, that chair....it is undercoated, but I didn't want to bore you with a picture of that. I have to wait for the planets to align again so I can give it a top coat.

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