Sewing emergencies happen. At the most awkward moments, life happens. A button falls off. A seam tears. A zipper gets stuck. The solution is for every home to have an essential sewing kit.
A store bought sewing box, fishing tackle box, or even a shoe box is suitable for your crisis sewing kit. The kit needs to be portable and convenient. The better organized your kit is, the more useful your kit will be. Having smaller boxes, drawers, or compartments in your kit will make it easier to organize. You kit offers a great place to keep your supplies used for everyday sewing as well.
Since this is your crisis sewing kit, you will want to make a list of essential sewing supplies to keep in your kit.
First, you will want good quality sharp scissors. Indeed, you may want to keep a couple of different scissors including the standard eight inch bent handle sewing shears and a pair of delicate trimming scissors. It is essential to keep these scissors sharp and never use them on anything other than thread or fabric. If you think you might need a pair of scissors to cut paper from time to time, add a pair of paper cutting scissors to your set.
The next item you should have is a seam ripper. It has a long knife like finger used to slide under threads in a seam. Behind the finger is a curved blade to cut those threads and another beaded finger.
The final cutter for your kit is a pair of pinking shears. These are used to prevent fabric edges from fraying. These shears cut in a zig zag fashion.
Keep several different kinds of needles in your kit. It is a good idea to have a set of smaller, medium, and larger needles with sharp or universal as well as sets of stretch or ball point needles. Always match the right needle with fabric and threads you are using. The right needle makes any task easier and with better results. You will also need a few hand sewing needles of different sizes and shapes for emergencies and hand sewing tasks.
Holding materials together while you layout and sew a project demands quality glass head sewing pins. You will want a couple of different sizes, but always keep a set of inch and a half pins handy.
A traditional pin cushion or a magnetic pin cushion is needed to help keep pins and needles organized.
You will need two spools of emergency thread in your kit at all times. The thread should be fifty weight long fiber polyester thread in black and white. General sewing should use other threads including the appropriate types, sizes, and colors.
You must keep a good cloth measuring tape in your kit.
To set hems and measure seam allowances, you will need a seam gauge. This tool also known as a stitch gauge is a small six inch metal ruler with a plastic finger slide that can be set at specific lengths.
A fabric marker or marker pen is important for marking measurements. These come in water soluble, air soluble, and erasable models. Calk markers are also helpful.
The items we have discussed, are really vital for your crisis sewing kit, but there are many other sewing notions that are useful and helpful. Always, keep your emergency sewing kit ready for emergencies.
A store bought sewing box, fishing tackle box, or even a shoe box is suitable for your crisis sewing kit. The kit needs to be portable and convenient. The better organized your kit is, the more useful your kit will be. Having smaller boxes, drawers, or compartments in your kit will make it easier to organize. You kit offers a great place to keep your supplies used for everyday sewing as well.
Since this is your crisis sewing kit, you will want to make a list of essential sewing supplies to keep in your kit.
First, you will want good quality sharp scissors. Indeed, you may want to keep a couple of different scissors including the standard eight inch bent handle sewing shears and a pair of delicate trimming scissors. It is essential to keep these scissors sharp and never use them on anything other than thread or fabric. If you think you might need a pair of scissors to cut paper from time to time, add a pair of paper cutting scissors to your set.
The next item you should have is a seam ripper. It has a long knife like finger used to slide under threads in a seam. Behind the finger is a curved blade to cut those threads and another beaded finger.
The final cutter for your kit is a pair of pinking shears. These are used to prevent fabric edges from fraying. These shears cut in a zig zag fashion.
Keep several different kinds of needles in your kit. It is a good idea to have a set of smaller, medium, and larger needles with sharp or universal as well as sets of stretch or ball point needles. Always match the right needle with fabric and threads you are using. The right needle makes any task easier and with better results. You will also need a few hand sewing needles of different sizes and shapes for emergencies and hand sewing tasks.
Holding materials together while you layout and sew a project demands quality glass head sewing pins. You will want a couple of different sizes, but always keep a set of inch and a half pins handy.
A traditional pin cushion or a magnetic pin cushion is needed to help keep pins and needles organized.
You will need two spools of emergency thread in your kit at all times. The thread should be fifty weight long fiber polyester thread in black and white. General sewing should use other threads including the appropriate types, sizes, and colors.
You must keep a good cloth measuring tape in your kit.
To set hems and measure seam allowances, you will need a seam gauge. This tool also known as a stitch gauge is a small six inch metal ruler with a plastic finger slide that can be set at specific lengths.
A fabric marker or marker pen is important for marking measurements. These come in water soluble, air soluble, and erasable models. Calk markers are also helpful.
The items we have discussed, are really vital for your crisis sewing kit, but there are many other sewing notions that are useful and helpful. Always, keep your emergency sewing kit ready for emergencies.
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Explore more Beginner Sewing instructions. Sewing Educator Donna Trumble teaches sewing instructions including her free book Top Ten Sewing Answers.
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