Sky’s Handy Household Hints: Needle and Thread

by Sky Trombley –

3 Ways to save your clothes with needle and thread

We spend a lot of good, hard-earned money on our clothes and we want them to serve us for as long as possible. When we lose a button, when a button falls too easily from its hole, or when a seam becomes a hole, we could give up on expensive clothing. But, we also don’t have to!

With a little thread and a sewing needle, these common problems can be

solved without a sewing machine or much effort.

I am no great seamstress and I don’t enjoy sewing. That said, my husband calls me his “pants fairy” for the number of his work trousers I have managed to keep in use over the years we’ve known each other. I’ve saved us a lot of money on all of our clothes, actually. And, by the way, almost anyone can become a pants fairy.

Learn these three skills and you can too:

(1) How to re-attach a button.

(2) How to reinforce a button hole.

(3) How to reinforce a seam.

These skills can easily be found on YouTube

for video demonstrations.

Bonus: Travel Sewing Tin (The Pin Tin?)

My mom is a bit of a globe trotter and when she visits her kids, she usually does some minor mending. Her micro sewing kit she carries is genius and I am planning on making an Altoids tin version for my own purse.

She includes:

•A basic tin or other container

•Magnetic sheet (optional) – keeps metal elements in place.

•4 lengths of thread wound around 2 embroidery floss bobbins: black, white, denim & beige.

•Mini-scissors

•Needle Threader

•Needles

•Safety pins

Until next time, live lightly!