a beautiful sewing basket (or box)

[highlandcoo]

DH and I give each other just one present at Christmas; one thing that we really want. This year he's having a golf club ( the putter kind, not the Gleneagles kind ) and I would love a really nice sewing box or basket.

At the moment, my pins, measuring tape, scissors etc are in a couple of plastic carry-out food boxes, along with other bits and pieces in a Waitrose bag for life. Not inspiring!

I've looked in John Lewis and the online Singer shop and there are nice sewing boxes but I'm looking for something a bit more special. If anyone has any suggestions that would be brilliant

My stuff is in a very large tool box. Tbh it may not look beautiful, but it works

Liberty - I have both a small square and a bigger basket from there and they’re beautiful!

www.libertylondon.com/uk/department/fabric/haberdashery/sewing-accessories/

Liberty stuff is lovely, I have a mouse pin cushion.

I also like browsing online antique offerings for things like sewing boxes.

@highlandcoo - I have a shaker style sewing basket - lined and cushion for pins & handle for taking up and downstairs. - I have had it for 25 odd years and it still goes strong. I have googled & they are quite expensive nowadays - but it gives me joy - perhaps worth a google ?

Are you looking more for a basket, fabric covered, or wooden cantilever type sewing box?

Somewhere like Riverbank Woodcrafts can make you a bespoke wooden sewing box.

As mentioned earlier, Liberty's does a lot of nice ones.

Etsy has a lot made by individuals, you might see one you like there.

You can also get these which don't hold that much but are fun to play with if you have to distract a child or are procrastinating.

A Closs and Hamblin Rainbow Wicker Sewing box? And a huge link!
www.candh.co.uk/fabrics-c217/haberdashery-c225/workbaskets-c250/closs-hamblin-rainbow-wicker-straw-hamper-sewing-box-p39361/s48010?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=closs-amp-hamblin-rainbow-wicker-straw-hamper-sewing-box-0283085&utm_campaign=product%2Blisting%2Bads&cid=GBP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2sP90JTY9AIVF57VCh092AmqEAQYECABEgIgs_D_BwE

Thank you so much, everyone. Such lovely things!

I now want both a Shaker workbox and an Etui!

I so regret that my grandfather's little cabinet left the family. He was a master tailor, and I remember visiting his workshop as a little girl in the sixties. He was over eighty at the time and still working most days.

I remember him sitting cross-legged on his tailor's bench, and his roaring stove where he heated up the old goose irons and then plunged them into a bucket of water, his old treadle sewing machine, and the most beautiful little miniature chest of drawers where he used to store his reels of thread.

When Grampa died, my uncle, who lived with him and was lovely but not a sentimental man, was offered £20 for the contents of his workshop and let everything go for that derisory amount. It simply didn't occur to him that anyone in the family would want them. I would have really loved the little chest of drawers in particular

Anyway, that was a long time ago and it would be lovely to have something beautiful now. I will have fun deciding!

Thank you all again

@highlandcoo - I hope you find something lovely

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