Ready for repairs
This is my little tool box, stocked with all sorts of things that can be used for stitching, darning, patching and generally making things last longer. I’m sure that I will add to it (especially since I know I have some other darning wool, but can’t seem to put my hand on it).
I’m particularly pleased that everything in there, as well as the box itself, was already in the house. Now, I just need something to practice my boro skills on.
The Snail of Happiness 
colorpencil2014
/ July 6, 2015I love a well roganized tool box of any kind..cal it slightly OCD but I love (re-) organizeing my tool/sewing/knitting/coloring boxes.
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colorpencil2014
/ July 6, 2015ayayayay, pressed send before spelling check…how funny is that?? Mispselling organizing;0) Shows that I am really not a hopeless case, ha!
My eye also spotted that nice darning mushroom, what a joy to have found such treasures in your home! Cheers, Johanna
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 6, 2015My sister gave me the darning mushroom a couple of years ago because (not sure why) she had two!
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colorpencil2014
/ July 6, 2015for both feet one, I would guess;0) But a lovely gift!
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The Twisted Yarn
/ July 6, 2015I’m so impressed at the tidiness. Please will you come and organise my whole life?!
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Wild Daffodil
/ July 6, 2015🙂 and mine!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015I have to confess that it is a small island of organisation in the chaos!
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insearchofitall
/ July 6, 2015I love that you are all set and organized to mend. My mother had a wooden egg for darning socks many years ago. Then there was no darning and the egg disappeared. I miss that egg. 😦 I wondered what you used the little needle nosed pliers for? I do keep a pair of forceps in my sewing room but not pliers. They go in my craft box. 🙂 Happy darning.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015I use them for all sorts, including pulling needles through tough fabric. They were originally elsewhere, but I decided this would be a good home for them now.
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thecontentedcrafter
/ July 7, 2015I have a sewing box that sits beside my chair – not nearly as tidily replete as yours, but does the trick as occasion warrants. I like to feel I’m ready for any eventuality 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015I’m sure the mess will creep in, but it looks nice at the moment.
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katechiconi
/ July 7, 2015I confess to having several sorts of mending boxes… one for clothes and household linen, one for furniture (small nails, pliers, screws, felt pads, wood glue, etc), one for garden tools, including a sharpening stone, etc. However, the Husband of Chiconia occasionally sees fit to make forays into my well-organised (okay, obsessive) mending world, with the result that when I want that exact green handled awl, or the white plastic covered cuphooks (or whatever…), they’re gone. Grrr. However, he does have other advantages, like being able to put in screws 7ft above the ground without needing a stepladder, so I think I’ll keep him…
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gentlestitches
/ July 7, 2015I love your sewing box! You are ready for anything. I have never owned a darning egg but I would love too! An actual egg cup is quite effective but not as good or as nice. 😀
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015Thank you for the inspiration!
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KerryCan
/ July 7, 2015I need to do this! I have odds and ends everywhere so I never get around to sewing and mending. I don’t see a thimble in that box, though!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015You are right, but that has now been rectified and there are two thimbles in there, plus a few more buttons.
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alookatthelittlethings
/ July 7, 2015How nice to have everything all together. I think you have inspired quite a few people!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 7, 2015It’s all thanks to Sharon (http://gentlestitches.com/), who inspired me in the first place!
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narf77
/ July 8, 2015Excellent re-use Ms Snail. “Everything spit spot and shipshape and ready for action.” Ms Mary Poppins would be very proud of you (note the following pattern requires some use of Google Translate…)
http://www.artedetei.com/2015/05/mary-poppins-amigurumi-patron-gratis-i.html
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The Snail of Happiness
/ July 8, 2015And I used it today… holes in the pockets of Mr Snail’s jeans repaired… he’s been moaning about them for months and I have been pretending I can’t hear.
Love that Mary Poppins!
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narf77
/ July 8, 2015She is practically perfect in every way, just like that little mending box 🙂
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