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For your basic sewing kit, you’ll need the following items:

Hand-sewing needles – sharps (all-purpose) for hand-sewing, curved needles for craft, crewel (with a long eye) for embroidery. A needle threader is also invaluable.

Pins – dressmaker’s and glass-headed.

Thimble – metal, plastic or leather – for protecting the tips of your fingers when you’re hand-sewing.

Measures – A standard tape measure is 152cm (60in); an extra-long tape measure (30-cm/120in) is really useful when making curtains. A ruler comes in very handy, too, especially a gridded ruler with angles marked.

Pin cushion – to keep pins handy.

Cutting tools – scissors in different sizes, including dressmaker’s shears (25cm/10in), medium embroidery/needlework scissors (13cm/5in), small embroidery scissors (10cm/4in), paper-cutting scissors; and, perhaps not essential but extremely useful, pinking shears, sewing snips, stitch ripper.

Markers – chalk pencils, chalk wheels, air- and water-soluble marker pens (see here), dressmaker’s chalk, tracing wheel and carbon paper (see here).

Tracing or dressmaker’s carbon paper and tracing wheel – to copy designs and pattern markings (see here).

Coloured tape – to make a sewing guide on the throat plate of the sewing machine, and masking tape.