Your mums sewing box, wool stash

[pantoinghousewife]

Tidied everything up and put it all in the correct boxes, sewing stuff in one, wool, knitting and crochet together. Since when dd has spent as much time as she can, sat there fascinated by them.
I can remember being similarly entranced by my owns mums sewing boxes and crochet hooks, I used to spend ages sat there just looking at all of her sewing threads. Were you the same and do you think it fostered a love of crafting in you?

I loved the button tin. Could spend hours sorting them into sizes, colours etc. Sigh.

(Sadly am now a ham-fisted adult who can't even set a zip. But i can sew buttons on!)

yes! i loved my mum's sewing box and spent ages arranging the cottons and making the pins in the pincushion into different shapes.

Ah the button tin, I forgot about the button tin, I loved the button tin(well, it was a jar in our house, but same thing)

The button tin was the thing. My mum entertained my two small neices for hours with a jar of buttons.

oh yes - i loved the button tins of various relatives

i loved my grandma's sewing room full of lovely 60's/70's fabrics - she made us all rag dolls i loved mine - to bits unfortunately!

Note to self, must expand my button collection.

my nanna had the most amaxing box fll of crochet hooks needles pin cucshions my dads old swimming badges saftey pins felt wools

Dd loves crochet hooks, she is obsessed, tried teaching her but she is left handed and found it hard going, so I've left it for now.

i am too rather needle obsessed

My nan used to have some metallic turquoise coloured knitting needle that I thought were just wonderful.

My mum gave me her buton tin, I got it out last week for ds who is 2.7 and emptied the contents on a big tray, he had a quick look at them then went off to play with his cars - hey !!! - good job grandma was here, cos I really enjoyed sorting them into colours and making pretyy pictures for about an hour, ideal stress relief activity. All tired execs should be given a big tray and a tin of buttons
Hmmmm perhpas this could be an ideal franchise opportunity

oh dear meant to write pretty not pretyy and perhaps not perhpas, I blame the buttons...

I really must increase my paltry button stash, if this is anything to go by, threads are not enough.

well i know where you can get some