what does your sewing box look like ?
 

would love to see what your sewing boxes or baskets look like, here is a picture of mine.
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My old one that I've had for 32 years was getting tired and rickety

I found a greeeeat biiiiig Pllano Box that looks like a tackle box but was made specifically for sewing supplies(Pllano even put "Sewing Supplies" on it!)at my local thrift store for four dollars-a steal!

Big area under lid for what doesn't fit in four drawers. It took some getting used to but now I'm thrilled with it

Everything is so much easier to find and put away and keep organized.

Before I got it, I wasn't doing anything but mending

The new box nagged me into sewing for fun again

I use an altoids tin -- very minimal and only what I need when mobile, which is: tiny scissors, a bobbin or two of thread, a lump of bee's wax, a wad of painter's tape, a needle book, a needle threader, the broken off business end of a seam ripper, 3 flat head pins, and a toothpick.

The handwork I do is pretty much bindings, applique, and and paper piecing, and those are my must-have items for those techniques. Otherwise I need my room full o' stuff and no mere sewing box will do.

bee3 -- curious about the small needle point pin cushion with star motif on left, center in your photo -- looks like handwork that we used to see in a shop in Jerusalem -- do you know the origins of yours?

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Oh, that is so interesting ! My sisters mother in law who is from there gave it to me, and I love it !!

I use a plastic tool box that has three tiers to store things. The top two tiers are shallow and are perfect for needles, pins, and small tools, these top two sections accordion out and let you see what is in the deep bottom section. I love this box because it has a handle, it's lightweight and easy to carry.

thats a great idea.

I have a sewing box that was my grandmother's that she gave me. She had tole painted the top. It's pretty good sized but has no compartments. I'm still trying to figure how to best to use it.

Everything I own for quilting wouldn't nicely fit in a box !! :)

This is basically all of my quilting supplies, and I thought that was a lot ! I also have scissors and a rotary cutter, and 2 rulers, but thats basically it.

I don't have a sewing box! I'd need a trunk if I could get it all in one place at the same time.

I could fill a small sewing shop with my supplies!

I have a hand sewing box though, for my hexies and any other hand sewing. It's one of those 3-tier clear plastic bins that snap together and the top has a handle. The top compartment is divided into little cubbies for my pincushion, needles, thread heaven, thread, snips, hexie templates, etc. Middle and bottom are probably about 8"x5" and about 1-1/2" deep each. Middle one is scrap squares, bottom one holds all my finished hexies and assembled "flowers". If I take it somewhere to go, I leave the bottom bin behind. If I need to do general hand sewing I only take the top section. It's very handy. :)

I also use a plastic tool box! It's open most of the time though so I don't carry it anyplace.

I used to have a tool box. now I just have piles of stuff I use. one in the living room. a few in the sewing room. stuff like that. I o have some shoe boxes filled with thread and some on the wall too.

OH dear... Okay, going RIGHT NOW to sort/clean it out!!

I have an old plastic sewing box with a small tray. It is not nearly as neat as your box! I'm terribly embarrassed! Most of my things are in various drawers either in sewing table; dresser; laying on top of tables; etc. I do have a smallish leather zip pouch that I can fit my hand-sewing items in for travel though. But even that gets messy!

No sewing box. I use a two sided tackle box, and a clear large tote....plus...as others have said...a pile here, there, everywhere!!!

I have a charming old sewing box that unfolds in the center (either side can be opened or left closed) and when opened, there are 3 tiers. I have had it about 20 years and have other keepsakes stored in it, not just sewing item.

oh I love those, they are called accordion I think. Is it wood?

I took a look at your picture and my first thought was "I wish". I, like many others who have commented, have boxes, totes, bins, and baskets to organized my stuff. I have one box for zippers, one box for elastics, one three drawer box for threads on regular spools, two boxes for threads on cones. I have a shoe hanger that holds my rolls of freezer paper, fusibles, stabilizers, and that waffle weave drawer liner. I have two large pencil cases that are my applique kits - needles, thread, pins, markers, scissors - one for each project I am currently working on.

I vaguely remember the day when I could fit all my sewing stuff in one box, but that was many, many years ago.

I use a metal tackle box with an accordion drawer. I love it and it has traveled many miles with me.

I had an ugly mustard color plastic sewing box for years until I bought my home. Now I have no sewing box, just one room full of fabric, and one room for sewing machines, ironing board, cutting table, etc.

I have a sewing 'box' (bag) for each type of craft I am doing. Example: Paperpiecing, applique, crocheting, beading, EPP, etc. My goal is to be able to pick up my 'sewing box' and be able to travel with it. All I need now is a Bewitched nose to put everything in reasonable order.

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Wouldnt that be nice..

my traditional-style sewing box is filled with my smocking stuff. the rest of my stuff is in plastic boxes-like the ones you use to store scrapbooking paper. I have some for precuts, one for ribbons, another for smaller templates.

I wanted to post a picture of mine. I love this tool box, I wish I had three more just like it.

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thats a great tool/sewing box ! what a good idea.

I have drawers in my sewing cabinet. There is plenty more nearby, because I sew a lot of different things.

I don't have a sewing box or bag. I have my sewing things in drawers in base cabinets in my sewing room.

I retired my sewing basket when I stopped mending clothes and started making quilts. Now most of my small sewing things are kept in Whitman Sampler tins. Buttons, machine needles, hand needles, perle cotton, laces, beads, fancy threads, rotary cutter blades, marking pencils, and other 'smalls' all live in their own tin in one of the 'legs' of my work table. A second leg is in process. The fun part is getting rid of the chocolate whenever Whitman comes out with a new Sampler tin. :o

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I have gone to Joanne's and bought three different sizes of those decorative boxes that stack. The hold a lot and look nice stacked on my shelves. I also have a big one near my quilter that I keep things I use for it. You can get them in different themes and colors.

I went to a garage sale and at the end, they were going to throw away and zippered cosmetic case with three main compartments and several plastic areas inside. I bought seconds of all the things that I need, like pin cushions, rotary cutter, blades, etc. and it is always ready to go when I go out to sew.

I love to go to auctions and buying the sewing baskets it is so much fun to go through them when I get home most of them are very old I also buy old Singer sewing machines and they have some really neet stuff in some of the drawers too.

I have a Tupperware Modular Mate rectangle 1 to the left side of my sewing machine at all times (it's about 7 X 10 X almost 2 inches deep). In it are the things I use all the time: the most used feet, bobbin donut (pin cushion fits neatly inside it), scissors, wooden skewers, pen and pencil, add-a-quarter ruler, a few safety pins, fray-check, and the spools of thread that I have used from lately. If I need it to go to a class, I usually have to remove several of those spools of thread to get the cover on. Then, when it is sealed, it goes safely to and from class without losing anything.

I am like #1piecemaker, it would take a pretty big trunk to hold all mine....I don't travel with sewing items so mine are all in different storage things in my sewing room...

My husband called me a pilot. I take this pile and pilot it over there.

I went down to Academy Sports and got a fishing tackle box. It's TERRIFIC!