How to Make an Emergency Sewing Kit

Everyone can use a needle and thread or an extra button some time in life. Keep this handy kit in your car, truck, desk or purse for all your sewing emergencies.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Buttons
• Coin Handbags
• All-purpose Threads
• Glues
• Needle Threaders
• Needles
• Safety Pins

1. Find a small box, such as a matchbox. You can also use a small coin purse.

2. Decorate the box by covering it with a small piece of wallpaper or sponge-painting it.

3. Glue a small magnet strip onto a small piece of cardboard. The cardboard should fit inside the box, but be easy to remove.

4. Lay a sewing needle on top of the magnet.

5. Wrap basic colors of thread around the piece of cardboard. Good colors to have on hand are white, cream, black, navy, red and gray.

6. Make sure you wrap the thread around the sharp point of the needle so that it doesn't show.

7. Add small buttons to the box in neutral colors such as clear and black.

8. Include a couple of safety pins for those moments of desperation, and a needle threader to make life a little easier.

Tips & Warnings

• If using a larger container for your sewing kit, such as a coin purse, include a small pair of embroidery scissors.

on 2/10/2006 You can also include a few patches for those holes. And it's always a good idea to include a few straight pins to use to pin on patches and stuff.

on 1/6/2006 For jeans, pants or coat buttons, you might want to carry some heavy button thread. You can get cardboard and plastic flat bobbins to wind the thread separately.

on 1/6/2006 In many sewing sections and fabric stores you can find Rainbow Thread braid, which combines several colors in a handy 27-inch length. You just find the color you need and pull out one thread - tie braid will kink up on you, but it'll straighten out without much effort.