sew a tool roll - PEP BB textile.straw.sew.roll

I submit my 'housewife' (Hussif).

I decided to sew this by hand because it's such a small project I could take it anywhere.  I also want to improve my hand stitching skills and this seemed (seamed?) like a good excuse .

materials used are linen, cotton, wool felt, and cotton thread.

Why didn't I think of making photos back when (years ago) I made my knitting needles roll? And my 'vintage look needle booklet' ...
OK, no problem, I'll make a crochet needle roll ...

That went fast. I made the crochet needle roll!
I still had some of that fabric (table cloth) I used for the napkins.
The crochet needles needed a new 'place to stay', because in their old etui (casing?) some of the plastic strips holding the needles were broken. some of the needles were always 'swimming around' in that etui.


measuring and cutting the fabric


sewing


crochet needle roll with the needles in it, open


roll with the crochet needles in it, closed

I wanted to make a Hussif because it seems my friends like me to "help" them sew (read, do it for them, except I need to bring my own tools!)


The materials are cotton and leather (the leather is salvaged from an old work glove, but I needed material that would protect my sharps from poking out - function over beauty).


The pockets are basted in place and the mini-pockets for the stitch-ripper and scissors are sewn to the outside of one pocket, and the "needle/pin book" is sewn to a second pocket.


This shows the edging all stitched in place and the first gathering of tools. This will be the dedicated home for some of those tools, but some pockets will have space for other things needed for special trips. I need to get some darker cotton threads also, and I'm thinking I'll cut some fabrics for "patches" so I have materials for general mending.


One of the videos I watched mentioned a "bone" thread-holder, so I figured small bones would be a great way to hold some different threads in small quantities.


It rolls nicely. At the moment it's tied with a leather strip. I'm thinking I'd like to make a narrow woven tie for it, but I need to research that. This project was completely hand sewn with cotton thread except for the leather bits which were sewn with my heavier silk thread, as I felt they needed something a little thicker.

Funny bone thread holders, Jay! I do have one bone thread holder, but it took me many hours of work with several tools to make that one out of a 'soup bone'.

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Funny bone thread holders, Jay! I do have one bone thread holder, but it took me many hours of work with several tools to make that one out of a 'soup bone'.

I honorably bury old chickens in my compost piles to complete their circle of life when they don't look happy any more. When I go to shovel the compost, I'm happy to have the bones in my garden, but I was also happy to harvest a few, clean them up, and put them to use for holding thread. They just looked like they'd do a good job, however, I am thinking I might add a small row of "pockets" like in a typical tool roll onto somewhere in the above project to hold them individually if I find they keep "unrolling". Most "spools" for thread have a thin slot for catching the end of the thread, and I don't have a way to do that in bone.

Jay Angler wrote:

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Funny bone thread holders, Jay! I do have one bone thread holder, but it took me many hours of work with several tools to make that one out of a 'soup bone'.

I honorably bury old chickens in my compost piles to complete their circle of life when they don't look happy any more. When I go to shovel the compost, I'm happy to have the bones in my garden, but I was also happy to harvest a few, clean them up, and put them to use for holding thread. They just looked like they'd do a good job, however, I am thinking I might add a small row of "pockets" like in a typical tool roll onto somewhere in the above project to hold them individually if I find they keep "unrolling". Most "spools" for thread have a thin slot for catching the end of the thread, and I don't have a way to do that in bone.

Jay, the best tool for cutting in bone (even beef bones) is a hacksaw (a saw for iron). The other tools I used were wood files.

I made a tool roll for my DPNs.

I used cotton skirt-weight fabric scraps and cotton thread.

Sewing the two layers together.

Topstitching the turned, pressed layers and securing the ribbon tie.

Measuring and marking the tool pockets.

Sewing the pockets.

Finished tool roll.

Unrolled.

Unfolded. It holds my DPNs sizes US1 - 10 plus a knitting needle gauge tool.