I’m starting to look forward to my spring ski tour at the end of March, and thinking about the kit I’ve missed during my previous hikes and trips. A sewing kit was one of them.

Hence today’s mini craft project: a travel sewing kit/mini needle book from mixed scraps of fabric.

The needle book obviously holds a few needles in different sizes. The orange pockets behind the felt flaps have pieces cardboard with sewing thread in a few colours and thicknesses. I’ll be adding safety pins as soon as I’ve bought some; it turns out that we have very few left. Somehow safety pins seem to be a consumable even though I can’t remember ever throwing one away.

I also hope to find small, light-weight, blunt-ended scissors somewhere. Embroidery scissors are small but have sharp tips, so I’m afraid they would poke holes in this thing.