Sewing gift basket help

happy1234

Hello all,I want to make my teenage daughter a sewing basket full of goodies as she will doing more of this next year at school. Please could you give me some ideas of what to include? any good websites with reasonable bits and peices?Many thanks

sylphraven

ooo, my mom did me something similar for a birthday when I was younger.

How about the basics to start off with - Pins, needles, measuring tape, tailors chalk, few small spools of coloured cotton, and a large spool of both black and white cotton. I find poundlands quite good for starter or travel sewing kits though the pins are awful - very blunt.

You could add a few things for decorating clothes such as fabric paint, embroidery silks, iron on patches/gems (can find these in poundland as well), ribbons.

HTH

happy1234

Thankyou - thats a great help

ashlea170706

what about a personalised thimble?

happy1234

Ooh where can I buy them?

sarahf191979

In Home Bargins they had some lovely sewing boxes for you to put everything in, think they were only £1.99 and the £1 shops do basic kits with loads of stuff in that could start you off, with different threads and needles etc..

HTH

sarah

C_J

A couple of pairs of scissors would be essential - a larger pair for cutting out material, and a smaller pair (embroidery scissors) for finer cutting. A pair of pinking shears is handy too, to stop seams from fraying.

Don't skimp with scissors, as cheap ones aren't always such a bargain.

clrat25

lidl are featuring sewing kits next week i think - they had boxes of threads, needles etc, but what i'm going to pop down for is one of those wooden sewing boxes that fold out (my gran had one - hope you know what i mean) at £5.99

happy1234

Thanks for the replies