About this Product
Handmade Antique Tapestry Fabric Sewing Needlebook
Travel Mending Kit Notions INCLUDED
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Even if you don’t sew, you may find yourself in need of an emergency sewing mending kit for an unexpected garment malfunction. Shirts tear, pants rip, zippers break, seams ravel, hemlines fall, and these poorly timed disasters usually happen in public when you are least prepared to handle it.
My handmade needlebooks are carefully hand stitched and crafted from new, old, vintage, and antique fabrics. They are conveniently sized—about 3 ½” x 3 ½”—and look sweet inside a purse or tote. Each book is generously stocked with sewing needles, lengths of colored thread, straight pins, safety pins, one needle threader, and a few buttons. Everything nests neatly between wool felt pages and inside pockets with room for more.
Tuck one into car and truck glove compartments for fast repairs while on vacation traveling, camping, and RV'ing.
If you NEVER need the clothing assist, which would be awesome, you could become someone else’s superhero at an important event like a wedding, baby shower, first date, prom (the worst).
A sewing needlebook makes an excellent gift. Everyone should have at least one. They’re adorable, useful, and much appreciated in that stressful time of need.
NOTE TO NON-SEWERS: A simple running stitch OR a safety pin will hold things together until proper mending can be done.
LemonPeppo Art
Meet the Maker
My artful eye was born in the vacant wooded prairie lots in the wild burbs of Chicago. I learned to sew young, making tiny primitive clothes for my troll dolls with fabric scraps from my mother’s projects. Sewing was always my go-to when time allowed.
Most of my useful originals were born from a need to invent something that was not available on the market. Over thirty years ago, I made my first of many quilted bibs for a messy human. Later, I created wash and dryable dust mop covers and reusable cotton boy doggie diapers, a necessity for the little alpha male markers in the house.
Now, I create textile art with raw raveled edges in many colors and textures. No scrap too small is my daily mantra, evident by my collection of old and new cotton, linen, wool, lace, beads, threads, yarn, and all types of art supplies. I also draw, paint, knit, crochet, quilt, sculpt, deconstruct, and reconstruct. Things get Boho and quirky, which comes in handy when crafting whimsical rag doll folk art beings, cloth villages, wiggly trees, wooly gardens, and rag-shaggy waterholes.
Now and then, I de-stash my hoards – not often. I appreciate the elderlies.
Thank you for reading, and for your trust and support. You allow me to continue to do what I love and share it with you.
How it’s Made
My needlebooks are mostly hand stitched with new, old, vintage, and antique cotton, linen, wool, barkcloth, and other unusual upcycled cloth. I'm lucky to have space to accommodate my fabric collections which include rare buttons, genuine antique French lace, ribbons, beads, yarns, and other keepsake mementos.
To start, I choose a showcase fabric for the outer front and back needlebook cover. Sometimes I hand piece an abstract collage of scraps and “draw” with thread, which is why you’ll never see the same needlebook elsewhere. The soft inside pages and pockets are cut and stitched to coordinate with the main cover fabric. Edges are usually raw, ravelly, and hand finished with blanket stitching. The final step is stuffing with necessary sewing notions.
My process takes some time, but I get to sift through my favorite things and turn bits and pieces into a finished product that’s appealing and useful. I hope you like what you see.
Shop Policies
SHIPPING: Free Shipping is offered on most items. That offer applies ONLY to shipments WITHIN THE CONTIGUOUS USA. If an order is going to Alaska, Hawaii, or another US territory, an additional charge may be billed.
Items have been weighed, packaged, and are ready to go directly after payment is received unless otherwise noted. Delivery times are estimated and noted on each listing.
ABOUT PHOTOS: Study photos and read item descriptions carefully before committing to buy. Actual colors vary due to lighting conditions and computer monitor settings.
DESCRIPTIONS: All items are handmade and safely stored in my clean, smoke-free art studio. Items are free of dirt, debris, chips, cracks, breaks, tears, rips, holes, burns, mars, scars, dents, unpleasant odors, stains, flaws, or other damage. I am meticulous in my process of describing what I sell. If something is wrong anywhere, I will photo and note the flaw.
RETURNS & EXCHANGES: I do not accept returns or exchanges. Contact me immediately if an issue arises.
CANCELLATION: I will accept a cancellation within TWO hours after placing an order. I ship fast, so packages are usually out the door after three hours.
PRIVACY: I will not share customer information with anyone. Ever.
