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Hiding inside that bottom pocket… to the left is a magnetic needle keeper kit with various sized needles and a needle puller. Then to give him more colour choices for mending and sewing on buttons, I wound bobbins in several different colours and slipped them on the binder rings to keep them organized.
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(<-affiliate link) The three spools of thread in the basic colours of white, black and beige are held with loops of elastic. It also indicates which is the bottom of the binder so that the sewing kit doesn’t get put away upside down.Ī box of pins and a box of miscellaneous buttons are held in place with velcro strips. This actually turned out to be an ideal solution as this provides a “handle” to grab onto when taking the binder off of a shelf. So that got unpicked and I sewed small squares of fabric to the zipper ends. I had thought that I could sew the ends of the zipper to the binder cover but when I did that, the binder wouldn’t open completely. The most difficult part of this whole project proved to be installing the zipper. The rest of the post will be picture intensive. I don’t have a tutorial to give you but I do have several pictures of the completed sewing kit to share. Using scraps of fabric leftover from making my husband an Aloha shirt, I designed and constructed a zippered binder cover with pockets on the inside panels to hold a set of good quality sewing scissors and various other sewing accessories.Īs I was making this on the fly… not really sure how it would turn out, I didn’t bother to take pictures as I went along.
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At least one binder could be turned into a sewing kit for our son. What to do with those? They were still good binders.Īnd then the idea formed. Some were barely used and could be donated to the local high school, but then there were the ones that our artists and their friends had embellished with markers. One day while going through and sorting the school supplies, I got looking at all the binders from past school years and wondering what to do with them all. But this past fall, when we were getting things ready for our son to go off to college, we searched but we couldn’t find any sewing baskets that didn’t have flowery prints or some other girly design and then in the rush to get everything else done and him settled into dorms, the sewing basket got forgotten.Īfter I got back home though I started to brainstorm a way to make him a sewing kit that wouldn’t take up much space (storage is limited in dorm rooms) and wouldn’t be too girly. When our daughters went off to college, I made sure that they each had a sewing basket stocked with the basics to take with them.