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I made a wrench one at Hubby's request and submitted it for a PEP Oddball point. https://permies.com/wiki/70/97787/pep-oddball/PEP-Badge-Oddball#1138022 I prefer to make them specifically for the need because different sets of things need slightly different dimensions. I like the idea of a hussif for some of my sewing stuff that does occasionally need to travel, but I want to think about it for a while and make something sized specifically for the sorts of things I consider useful, not someone else's pattern.I've been thinking about how useful kits/pouches/roll-ups like these are, and how I'd like to make one for things like art tools to take on hikes/walks and one for tools like wrenches and such.
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OK - that one will be interesting because the length is a moving target!a shorter one with similar sized 'tubes', for my older daughter's coloring pencils,
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Jay Angler wrote:Carla Burke wrote:
OK - that one will be interesting because the length is a moving target!a shorter one with similar sized 'tubes', for my older daughter's coloring pencils,
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I would use the word, "tacking", but I don't know if that's the most common term for this. Sometimes "basting" is also used, but I think of that as a "practice seam" so make it easier to do the final seam for something like fitting a sleeve in. I *always* baste zippers in before machine stitching them. Any time I've skipped the hand stitch first approach, I've ended up pulling out the machine stitches, basting the zipper in, and then machine stitching it a second time. That's why I think that practicing hand sewing is not stressed as much today as it possibly should be. It's like any other skill requiring coordination - proper instruction and practice make it functional. Without instruction and practice it can seem slow and tedious.Also, you can see that I'm ... not sure the word here... "pinning" the fabric in place with thread.
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Jay Angler wrote:
That said, one of my issues with things like the hussif is actually being able to hold awkward things like thimbles that slip out too easily and would have been very valuable at the time.
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Do you mean the inside? That would certainly help and the video mentions stuffing his pincushion with sheep's wool. I've not seen felt with such a precise pattern before - usually it's a fuzzier looking finish - but we've lost so many skills. I wonder if Nicole Alderman who made your adorable Henny Penny could make a felted cylinder with a thimble hole?r ranson wrote:maybe the pincushion is made of felt?
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Jay Angler wrote:
Do you mean the inside? That would certainly help and the video mentions stuffing his pincushion with sheep's wool. I've not seen felt with such a precise pattern before - usually it's a fuzzier looking finish - but we've lost so many skills. I wonder if Nicole Alderman who made your adorable Henny Penny could make a felted cylinder with a thimble hole?r ranson wrote:maybe the pincushion is made of felt?
Carla Burke makes a valid point also, although I had just assumed that the hussif pictured belonged to a wealthy woman or was more modern than some we've been looking at.
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r ranson wrote:
But now we are getting away from the "using up scraps" to "I gotta buy felt".Jay Angler wrote:maybe the pincushion is made of felt?
And yet, I really want to make it.
I haven't a clue how to make it.
But I want to.
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I've heard of people knitting wool and then felting the knitted product. I'm not a knitter, but the same technique might work with crocheting which I did years ago. I'd already been thinking I should find the hooks (in a blue bin, know which room, but stuff will need to move... I've got to get rid of stuff, but hard to choose what...you all likely know the problem). This would be an interesting project to try.I was thinking the outside of the pincushion as well. I imagine it would fray less so it would be easier to create the insert for the thimble. But now we are getting away from the "using up scraps" to "I gotta buy felt".
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r ranson wrote:Needle felting contents - I'm game to try that.
Should I have a single needle or a punch?
trying to decide how big to make it. I like the housewife to be about 4-5" wide, so that gives us the length of the cylinder. Now for the decision on the depth. Thimble height plus...???
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Hi Beth. I never thought of my tin of pins as something special. I probably bought it new in the 1970s (or maybe my mother bought it for me). Now I looked it up on the internet and I see it's even in the museum!Beth Wilder wrote:Oh, Inge, I love your Koh-i-noor tin of steel pins! That's one of the things I love most about the supplies I inherited from my gramma and grand-nannah. The containers themselves are works of art. I think part of it is just the colors!
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