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Gift-giving happens all year round – birthdays, Mother’s & Father’s Day, and little care packages when the occasion strikes, but this is the time of year I really brainstorm about gift ideas. As a sewer and someone who is a practical person (a recent realization I have had to accept. The tip-off was my preference for nylon crossover purses), my gift idea list is just that – practical gifts for the sewing enthusiast.<\/p>\n
Disclosure: I have no advertising or sponsors. I have never received compensation or free products (or even discounts) for anything on this site. Therefore the items listed below are strictly items I personally want or use and think other sewers would also use and perhaps even wonder, “how did you know?”. I have included links so you can see what it is I’m talking about. You can buy from anyone but it’s always appreciated if you shop your friendly, local, independently owned fabric store first (they must be friendly).<\/p>\n
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Ideas & tips:<\/strong> Give inspiration, motivation, and knowledge.<\/p>\n Music:<\/strong> If your special sewer enjoys listening to music while they work they got to have a subscription to Pandora<\/a>. One year of ad-free, customizable, streaming music to play on their phone, tablet, computer, etc. while they sew. I have it and use it every day.<\/p>\n Headphones:<\/strong> Sometimes I prefer to listen to audiobooks from the library or my language cds but I can really only listen to these when hand sewing because my sewing machine is too loud. So I’m thinking headphones this year; the over the head, padded kind, with a long cord so I can travel to the ironing board.<\/p>\n Sewing Tools:<\/strong> The right tools really help a project go smoother. Some tools can be a little pricey and therefore not as easily justified in buying for oneself but I would welcome sewing tools as a gift any day. Think of it as the gift of frustration Sewing Supplies:<\/strong> Thread<\/a> seems costly, and yet I use it every day and cannot reuse it. I would probably never buy a prepackaged thread collection since I have many of the colors already but if I was given a thread collection I would use it and think, “wow, I didn’t know I needed this, but I do”. Just be sure to buy quality thread. Cheap thread is a waste of money. Some brands to look for; Coats & Clark, Gutermann, and Mettler Metrosene.<\/p>\n Need more ideas? Check out a previous gifts for sewers <\/a>idea list I made (I think only the tailor’s ham is repeated). Browse at a local, independently owned fabric store and ask what they suggest. And\u00a0you can’t go wrong with good coffee or tea if your special sewer drinks them (it’s a little motivation in a cup).<\/p>\n And newer gift idea post: What’s on your sewing wishlist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gift-giving happens all year round – birthdays, Mother’s & Father’s Day, and little care packages when the occasion strikes, but this is the time of year I really brainstorm about gift ideas. As a sewer and someone who is a practical person (a recent realization I have had to accept. The tip-off was my preference […] Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,276],"tags":[150,135],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gifts-for-people-who-sew","category-sewing-tools","tag-gifts-for-sewers","tag-sewing-tools-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ft.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EZxn-kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
free<\/del> less sewing. Here are some tools I want or use a lot:<\/p>\n\n
\nGifts for People Who Sew; 2015<\/a>
\nGifts for People Who Sew; the Little Things<\/a><\/p>\n