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Where / in what do you keep your sewing stuff?

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TheBlonde · 20/09/2008 13:48

I don't have a suitable drawer so it's in an open topped box which doesn't really work as it gets all dusty

Any suggestions?

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CryingMyselfToSleep · 20/09/2008 13:49

as I have just broken my sewing box

vonsudenfed · 20/09/2008 13:57

In lots of different retro biscuit/storage tins.

One big flat tin for stuff I use all the time, then the rest is sorted (2 tins of buttons, one for edgings and braids, another huge one of coloured cottons)...

Now I think about it, I've done it like this since I was a student!

imnotyourmother · 20/09/2008 14:12

the shop

Jbck · 20/09/2008 14:19

An old Cadbury's Roses tin.

allgonebellyup · 20/09/2008 14:28

sewing stuff?????

what the hell is that?

GobbledigookisThrifty · 20/09/2008 14:30

In an old Celebrations tin - I don't have much!

Quattrocento · 20/09/2008 14:40

in a very twee sewing box, like these

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JackieYoHoHo · 20/09/2008 14:43

I have a proper sewing box, faux white wicker (plastic), with a padded top, and pincushion inside the lid, which I've had since I was at secondary school and had to have one for sewing. However, I practically never actually do any sewing, as I'm so bad at it.

littlelapin · 20/09/2008 14:43

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JackieYoHoHo · 20/09/2008 14:45

Blimey - you can get some quite stylish ones now. Mine is very 1970s (as that's when it's from).

ChippyMinton · 20/09/2008 14:49

LL
Sounds lovely though.
I have my grandmother's footstool, which opens up, and has a lift-out tray for cotton reels, and everything else underneath, And one of those 'twee' ones, and several old biscuit and sweetie tins.

TheBlonde · 20/09/2008 14:52

I don't have much, mostly thread and buttons
muji might be too small

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Overmydeadskullandcrossbones · 20/09/2008 15:16

mostly all in my big ond trunk I've had since boarding school.

Plus a wooden sewing box that folds out for threads and smaller bits and bobs.

LaDiDaDi · 20/09/2008 15:18

Plastic tool box thing used to keep my cross stitch stuff in.

MummyToOneForNow · 20/09/2008 15:24

A wooden ikea mini chest of drawers - similar to this (although mine is not as deep and has two medium drawers in the middle). It lives on a bookshelf.

TheBlonde · 22/09/2008 20:08

Thanks everyone
I have ordered something from muji

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EachPeachPearMum · 22/09/2008 20:13

pmsl at LL's table!s of images
Conjures up all sorts of dodgy images!

Miaou · 22/09/2008 20:17

ROFL at sexing box (particularly as the x is nowhere near the w so it's definitely a Freudian slip )

I have mine in all sorts of places - a few bags, a couple of tins, on about three different shelves scattered round the house ...

Dh is building me a shed

snowleopard · 22/09/2008 20:30

Sexing table! You're a woman of mysterious depths Lapin...

I have my own sexing sewing desk with various tupperware boxes and trays to hold everything. I dream of the perfect sewing box but I've never found it - I'd need a big one.

nannyL · 22/09/2008 20:44

i have my grandmothers sewing box and her needle holder she made in sewing during the war amd i keep the box in my hall cupboard with hoover and iron etc

twoluvlykids · 22/09/2008 20:49

at the moment,it's mostly in a large hand built ottoman, in the conservatory, coz my house is all at sixes (not sexes)and sevens, but usually it's in the box room in a tall boy that's a piece of furniture,not a person btw!

blithedance · 24/09/2008 13:26

Unsatisfactory

Couple of plastic boxes from Hobbycraft, drawers, baskets, everywhere. One of the boxes is a good one with spools to carry all the threads.

The tins idea is great!

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