Embellish on the Fly: Tips for Sewing Beads on the Go

re: Embellish on the Fly: Tips for Sewing Beads on the Go

handmade annie — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:58:20 GMT

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re: Embellish on the Fly: Tips for Sewing Beads on the Go

irishdiva49 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:41:03 GMT

I like doingthe MIll Hill Crossstitich and bead kits-especially at work during lunch. A shop owner suggestee that I get a "TAcky BOB". It is essentially a CD case with tacky surfaces on the interior and there is a magnetic strip in the center for my needle. I now have two of them I keep it and a small scissor in a zipped bag so I always have something to do.

Thanks for all the other tips.

re: Embellish on the Fly: Tips for Sewing Beads on the Go

ckoosbreazeal — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:50 GMT

What a great use for those mint tins! I remember as a kid making emergency sewing kits out of empty lipstick tubes, too.

Just be careful with those tins if you are traveling by air. I created all sorts of distress at the security area last year with my colored pencils. They were in one of those tins that the fancy pencils come in and I guess they looked questionable in the x-ray.

re: Embellish on the Fly: Tips for Sewing Beads on the Go

BNelsonAK — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:53:13 GMT

My kids and I have a great travel bag just for craft supplies, at least for road trips, it's a little too big for the plane:-) I try to get them (and me!) to create something whenever we go somewhere, because being in a different location always stimulates creativity! My favorite was a camping trip, where they had to create something from what they could find. We had charcoal drawings on rocks, stick art, and even some crayons on warm rocks heated by the fire.

Last fall we were in a hotel for a week while my husband had a conference, and I was preparing for a show, so I brought my sewing machine and worked for hours. I was wishing I had a shallow tray for beading in, and then I spotted the tray that was under the ice bucket and glasses, perfect! :-)