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1. Dressmaker’s shears – good for cutting fabric

2. Medium sewing scissors – good for trimming seams and cutting threads.

3. Small scissors – these are useful for clipping corners and cutting details

4. Paper scissors

5. Stitch ripper – really useful for cutting and pulling out threads

6. Tape measure – 150cm (6oin)

7. Double-length (soocm/120in) tape measures are now available and are really useful when cutting out curtains and blinds

8. Universal ruler with inch scale

9. Sewing gauge with sliding adjustergood for measuring seam allowances and hems

10. Small measuring gauge – this has lots of different measurements on the sides

11. Tailor’s chalk

12. Tracing wheel

13. Tracing or dressmaker’s carbon paper, used with a tracing wheel

14. Retractable pencils – they give a fine line that can be rubbed out with a fabric eraser.

15. Quilter’s 6mm (¼ in) tape – helps to guide rows of stitching

16. Coloured tape – useful for putting on the arm of the sewing machine to guide you

17. Pins – dressmaker’s

18. Pins – glass-headed

19. Metal thimble

20. Leather thimble

21. Selection of hand sewing needles

22. Needle threader

23. Corner and edge shaper

24. Chopstick – used for turning out tricky corners

25. Safety pins – used for threading elastic or tape into channels.

26. Wrist pin cushion