Yarns!

[muninnhuginn]

I only ordered Saturday night, so sock yarn from Curious Yarns was a surprise arrival this morning (I'm exceedingly grateful to hobbitblue for pointing the site out). Soft, beautiful skeins. Plus the cute little animal stitch markers. And sweets in amongst the wrapping: Looby Loo, having admired the Candy yarn I've bought to do socks for her, took a sweet off to school and left Biggle-the-Cellophane-and-Plastic-Bag-Addict the wrapping. So all were happy. (Well I'm not sure M was entirely pleased to have his beard stroked with a skein of wool. But I had to share.)

Such a lovely package all round. It's made me feel more like salvaging stuff and starting anew. So, I've found a box (not hard, since I seem to acquire them), ex-Culpepper's I think, and I've dusted off my favourite needlecase, my scissors keep with my mother's needlework scissors, the little bag of safety pins. I've put a circle of felt into the bottom of the box the stitch markers came in and added my first three to the new ones. The result is neat, portable and mostly stuff I've embroidered myself.

The box is not full. What else should I add for temporary, easy access for embroidery, knitting, and mending of clothes?

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm so glad you placed an order, her stuff is so lovely, which shade of yarn did you get?

Box contents: stitch holders? tape measure? large-eyed sewing needle? Those are the things I seem to need most often...

[muninnhuginn]

Candies for the girlie and Stone for me.

Tape measure, yes, definitely. Or I could decide I need to get a new one and embroider its cover....

Stitch holders, yes, and the big needle, if I can find them.

Crochet hook, for dropped stitches.