Re: Work basket pattern


"The Wanderer" wrote...
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:06:18 +0100, Ursula Schrader wrote:

<workbasket question>

Hmm, having read the other posts in this thread, perhaps my suggestion
will
sound like heresy, but......

I use a cheap plastic makeup box for my workbox. I've seen them around for
about £1-£2. There's a removable tray with half a dozen small
compartments,
needles kept in a manufacturer's paper fold case, needle threader and seam
ripper, tape measures, scalpels, machine needles, bodkins, common threads
(a reel of black, white and cream), dental floss (you don't want to know,
honest!), and the handle for the tray also accomodates that oh so useful
extending magnetic picker, together with half a dozen long large head
pins.

Into the bottom goes scalpels, scissors, various modelling spatulas,
flexible bodkin/threader, small pliers and cutters, tweezers various,
marker pens, false eyelashes waiting to go on a doll, and some of the
various other bits and pieces that I've found useful over the last few
years.

As I said, it cost a very small amount from one of the cheapy stores, and
it's done all I want.

--
Richard

Thanks for the interesting suggestion. That would be the ideal place for
storing all my sewing utensils if I wouldn't already be the proud owner of a
1950s sewing machine in a little cupboard which I inherited from my beloved
grandma. All the stuff I need finds room in the door, while I keep two boxes
with all kinds of yarns in the main compartment, along with the foot thingy
for starting the machine. I had been lusting for something that a) I could
make myself and b) just carried the current project, or better, the
needlework that is to be done by hand. I think I found what I want, just
gotta make it now. ;-)

U.


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