Victorian Crafts: Making a Needle-Book | beginner friendly scrap busting sewing project

The first 500 people to use my link will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! https://skl.sh/catscostumery07241 ✨ Hello everyone and welcome to a new video! All of my favourite things came together in this project: quick, easy, stash-busting, highly functional, with a little side of Pride and Prejudice. I typically have just kept my needles as I showed, threaded through a scrap of felt and left open in my drawer. Similarly, my machine needles are just in their bought packets, so I need to go through all the little boxes to find the right one. But no more! This project is for a little Victorian inspired needle-book. I provide my main references for this project below. It's a great way to use scraps, as you only need small rectangles of everything and some embroidery floss. For the fastenings, I used a small length of ribbon, but I may change this to a little buttonhole as it's technically more practical and will be faster to do and undo. The pattern for this, including the embroidery, is a public/free post on my Patreon, check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/catscostumery And if you do make one, please tag me over on Instagram, I'd love to see it! -- REFERENCES -- Images: MET, Needle-book, 19th century https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/193739 V&A, Needle Case, late 19th century https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63695/needle-case/ Text: Harper’s Bazaar March 14, 1868, p.308 Harper’s Bazaar April 4, 1868, p.357 Harper’s Bazaar June 24, 1871