Do you have a mending kit?
It’s always such a pain to dig out the sewing supplies when something needs to be mended. So several years back I created this little mending kit. I keep it in the place where I am most likely to be standing when I notice buttons that have popped off or seams that are unraveling–the laundry room.
I started witha cute (and cheap!) pencil case from the thrift store. Inside is:
A thimble
A small pair of scissors
A seam ripper
A spool each of white and black button thread (ie extra strong)
Small spools of white, tan and black thread
Safety pins
A tiny ziplock bag with a variety of plain buttons in standard sizes
A button card with several sizes of needles and several pins stuck through
Double sided no-sew hem tape
Sewers bees wax (to keep the thread from tangling)
It’s easy to pick up a little sewing kit at the dollar store and then fill it in with some higher quality threads, add some buttons and viola! Mending kit!
Now when I have mending it’s easy to grab my kit in the evening when I’m watching tv and fix things up in a flash! Or, like today when I’m volunteering at the food pantry, I can grab it and take it with me easily!
So-do you do mending? Do you have a kit?
[…] another tip–keep your big sewing kit safely stored, but consider making a tiny “mending kit” like I did to keep in the laundry room so you can make those small spot repairs as you see damaged items come […]