SBQ – Stitching Essentials

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Terri and is:

What items do you consider essential to your needlework that you keep in your stitching bag?

Well, first of all, I don’t really keep anything in my stitching bag full time, except for some little projects that I can work on in an emergency. It also depends on which stitching bag you’re talking about, as I have two. My favorite is the Tinkerbell bag I bought at WalMart to try to fit my mid-sized projects better. It’s less tapered at the bottom than my previous stitching bag, so it’s better suited to stretcher bars, though I think I have yet to take a project on bars anywhere to require the bag…

The other is one of the DMC needlework bags. Not suited to bringing many projects anywhere, but I do keep a spare pair of scissors and a spare needle or two in there, though I barely use it at all anymore, except to transport finished projects so that they stay nice and flat.

I keep nothing full-time in my Tinkerbell bag, instead opting to throw my everyday scissors and an Altoids tin (a VSCyberStitchers July exchange gift from a couple of years back), with a needleroll, dololly and marking pins contained within, in whenever I need to take the bag somewhere. Again, it doesn’t go much of anywhere lately, unless we travel somewhere, which also hasn’t been very often.

Geez, I think that this all points to the fact that I need a life? I need to get out of the house more, that’s for sure. I hope to get out and plant some bulbs soon, if the weather stays warm and the ground warms up. I’m concerned about planting them too soon, with the nights still getting cold – below freezing at times. But I may just say, screw it, I’m planting them while I feel like it. 😉