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But I bought one anyway. A holiday sewing kit, it should be called an emergency mending kit to take on holiday, I don't do much sewing these days, as in making things. :-P

Not silly at all ZZzzz you never know when you might split a seam or have a button fall off.

I have had a small sewing kit that was actually a freebie from an hotel in Cyprus about 28 years ago! I used it this weekend when I was staying with family. Not that they didn't have needles and cotton but because my kit had a needle threader :-D

I've had one which was a given free with a magazine about 25yrs ago it stays in our case don't think it's ever been taken out of it and never been opened but I reckon the day I leave it behind we will need it :-D

I've got 3 or 4 of them ..............

one bought, which we keep in the glove compartment of the car



and the rest all picked up as freebies in hotels over the last 30 or so years.

The ones I have all have 3 or 4 different colours of thread, a couple of needles, a needle threader, a collapsible thimble, and 3 or 4 small buttons

The bought one is in a small plastic case, the freebies are in what could be taken for one of the old cardboard matches case.

When my daughter got married, I took a variety pack of safety pins - and all but 3 were used :-D

A sewing kit would have been useful.........

I used to take the sewing kits in hotels.

Until I realised that most of what was in them I wouldn't use!

When we go on holiday I take a small box, with a few needles, black & white thread (small spools), a few buttons, safety pins, a tiny pair of scissors & hemming web (iron-on stuff).

I keep the box in my "vanity" case. :-D

I have the little freebie ones in my case too, and have had to resort to sewing a button back on and last year a seam in a skirt came undone after I caught it on a fence so they are handy and of course safety pins are always useful. I always have one or two in my make up bag.

You know the old saying A stitch in time, saves nine!


Lizx

Liz


you reminded me .........................

last Christmas, I pushed one of the little freebies in my case when we went away.

We stayed in a hotel the last night, and I wore a long black skirt, but kept my boots on. Wouldn't you know it ................ one of the little hooks for the laces on one of the boots caught a little loop in the hemming thread on the skirt.

Before I knew it, half the hem was down!

Back in the room .................. out came the sewing kit, a needle, and I used a lot of the very fine skirt hemming thread to re-do the hem.



The other thing I often used to use (especially if at work) was sticky transparent tape to hold up a hem that had come down.

I have some long boots and wear them with skirts, but they have a strap and buckle round the calf to adjust the size. The times my skirt hems have caught on the buckle is no one's business (skirts are below knee to mid calf length) I am forever having to rehem the skirts, it's so annoying but I love the boots.

The modern ways of hemming skirts etc are so flimsy, catch one thread and the lot goes!

Lizx