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Felt Travel Sewing Kit

You know the ones you get from hotels? Well, I’ve always wanted to create my own mini travel sewing kit that is not the throw-away type and would not look flimsy inside my bag.

I’ve finally made my little wish come true with this cute kit! It’s so easy to make that I’m now thinking of this as a great giveaway for your girlfriends or daughters. I actually made this a few months ago together with all the other felt projects (you can see them here and here) which I made during my felt-frenzy days. teehee.

I love how simple and yet functional the design is. :)

I found a lovely hand-painted bead form my stash of beads and used it together with a thin rope to close the sewing kit.

I have yet to fill up the thread area. teehee. I loosely sewed a couple of buttons on the left area and then attached various needles on the right.

Before I attached the thread area, I enclosed a thick cardboard in the middle of the thread holder so that it will stay firm and won’t look crumpled.

I actually forgot that I need to make zigzag cuts in the bottom part of the thread holder as well. I made a cut that was too close to the sewed area so I really couldn’t make those zigzag cuts anymore. No biggie, on my next sewing kit, I’ll make sure that it’s there. teehee.

All the holders — thread, button and needle holders were sewn on one side only so that it can be lifted up from the kit. This way, it won’t be too hard to attach anything to them. :)

You might be wondering how I tied the satin rope around the kit to close it so I prepared a short video to show you I close it. I initially wanted to use Velcro or a button but I thought this would be more different not to mention easier to make. Here’s how I tied it together:

From the looks of my simple travel sewing kit, it’s really easy to figure out how to make it. :P

However, drop me a line below on the comments section if you feel you need a how-to so that I can make one for you. :)

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My Sewing Machine’s New Home

Out of sheer laziness, I always postpone making a nice space for my very vintage sewing machine.

But today, I don’t know what hit me, I just cleared out a small space in our home and finally settled my machine. I was actually getting tired of carrying it to the table every time I need to sew something because it was super duper heavy (I think this is because it’s totally old) and I didn’t want to set up the whole thing each time. :)

Thank you Mr. Snuggles for helping me carry it. Now you won’t have to carry it to the table anymore. :P

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My lovely Aunt Erna gave me my ancient sewing machine a few months after my Ma passed away. My mom sold her high-speed sewing machine. :( Well, it was probably because she could not sew anymore because of her eyesight and her prevailing ailment. Anyway, enough of the sad stuff. Good thing my Aunt has like nine or ten machines at home (I can hear you say ‘what?!?’. LOL.  It’s as if she can use them all at the same time! haha). And because the design is quite old, it is literally “heavy” duty.

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My machine’s SEW lovely! :D

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