Today’s post is a tribute to the little things, the ones that often go unnoticed but have the ability to make your surroundings more colorful and full of nuance. They’re things many people wouldn’t notice, but that give you a pleasant feeling when you look at them because they’re very personal and have something special. We want to champion the importance of the little details, which so often make the biggest differences.
With this idea in mind, we’ve selected three small, essential sewing accessories—tools that seem insignificant and have become so everyday that we don’t usually pay attention to them. But this time, it will be impossible not to notice them because they’re leaving behind their usual simplicity to dress up in irresistible designs you’ll want to have in your sewing basket.
Sewing accessories: small, useful, and beautiful.
1. Thimbles.
These small, simple sewing accessories, created to protect our fingers from sharp needles, have something very special about them. They’ve become such a thing that they’re now objects of craftsmanship and collecting. Some people collect original and exotic thimbles brought from all over the world. For our store, we’ve chosen a colorful fusion of design and comfort to offer you these silicone thimbles, suitable even for the most sensitive nails.
2. Pins.
It’s a classic: a pin gets buried somewhere in the fabric while we’re in an early or intermediate stage of making a garment, and ends up sticking into an unsuspecting finger without a thimble or into the body of the innocent victim who has to try on the unfinished clothing. In that sense, pins have always been a little treacherous, as well as terribly boring. Now imagine pins that, besides being perfectly visible, were also beautiful. Can you picture it? Well, you can also have them—but be careful, they fly!
If you don’t want them to get away, you can always catch them in this magnetic pin cushion.
3. Designer scissors.
These days, it’s just as important for an object’s design to be attractive as it is for the object itself to do its job. We’re no longer satisfied simply with something being useful; we also want it to be beautiful. This is extending to all the tools we use in our daily lives, and our sewing accessories are no exception. The classic metal scissors that have always been in our sewing baskets and our mothers’ are now filled with color too, adding a unique touch of design and personality to their more-than-proven usefulness. By the way, if you’re left-handed, we also have left-handed scissors.
At Lulú Ferris, as you already know from our fabrics, our creations, and our tutorials, we love details, beautiful and different things, and unique garments and objects with personalities of their own. That’s why we like surrounding ourselves with these kinds of designs and contributing through our own work to making more and more beautiful things part of your world.