Please don’t ever stop wittering! You are such a sensible witterer, sharing treasures left and right.

I inherited a lot of similar items to what were in your box from both my mother and mother- in-law. They were both avid sewers…..to this day I have never had to buy any sewing notions….I simply go to my treasure stash ! I have spent the last 30 years making quilts from all the fabric scraps that I inherited as well . Finding your KZfaq channel was a godsend as now that I’m finally retired I can focus on finding new and innovative ways to use the items I was so lucky to have been given to me!❤️😊🇨🇦

Oh my, what a beautiful box you have been given, and full of treasure. 🤩 Congratulations on the lovely magazine article - very well deserved. We are so lucky to have you share your time and knowledge with us on KZfaq. 🥰

What an absolute treasure. I'm sure we all have crafters envy.

Hiya K3n😊,the 3 ?bone/ivory drops are thread holders/ bobbins used in long lace weaving/ knotting; as l have several inherited made from bone and ivory,along with an ivory needle holder similar to yours.Also two of wood & one in silver.Your finest little crochet hook was used when repairing silk stockings/ hosiery (& often with mini/ fine crocheting of decorative pieces as in broaches; l have a speedwell flower with a 4 leaf clover.that fit in a 2mm square!) The topless thimble makes me think of fine leather glovemaking- which makes me think that your slow burning raefers may also have been used when moist chamois leathers/rabbit-fox pelts were used for trims with riding gloves etc. So many treasures l have pins in a box similar to yours!😊One of my Grand aunts was a linen weaver/ picker and helped design& created some of the linens gifted to HRH QE2 at her wedding from Ulster.(& l have several test pieces- unbleached from this!) My Mothers Father used to make her buttoned shoes,so l have a "last" from then! I'm fortunate to have threads from Asia,India as well as many DMC ones,and only hope that my grandees may find them as wondrous as I do. Happily,they are brought up with all todays technologies but clamour for my books and to learn the "pterodactyl" ways!!😅 History is of great interest to them(& gives this "AP";-aged parent,relevance)Love watching& enjoy your "wittering"- excuse my own.Best wishes to all,😊Julia. J.I.M.K Mrs. Brisbane, Australia ❤ 🇦🇺 😀 🪃PS.the little serrated wheel is used when drafting patterns onto materials.You place chalked paper on the material,then the pattern,and trace with the wheel- leaves the outline and saves the pattern piece,espically useful in multisized patterns or when customising the sizes.😊

I am so proud of you of being in the magazine. The DMC box from your Aunt is a real treasure. 🩷 Thank you for sharing.

If anyone deserves such a beautiful precious gift, it’s you Kathryn ❤ Edit..yes the little wheel is for pattern marking ☺️

The wooden tiny hook is called a stiletto needle. The pizza cutter-looking tool is a tracing wheel. I use mine perforating paper stamps. It makes it easy to tear. Lovely gift from your Aunt. She would be delighted to know you inherited it and are using it. Congratulations on being featured in the magazine ~Terri 😊

Wow Kathryn what a beautiful box and full of treasures. It couldn’t have gone to a more worthy person - you’re Auntie got it right giving it to you. How exciting!

🇩🇪“Sortiment feiner Näh und Stopfnadeln“ means: Assortment of fine sewing and darning needles. With slim tips and big eyes. On the front says“ what you want to become a master starts practicing early“ it’s a very old german saying.😁

Thank you for letting us join you in your box opening. Could imagine the ownership. 🇬🇧

Congratulations Kathryn on being published in Today's Quilter! You deserve it! You bring much joy to all of us ❣️ Your special box was fabulous with many treasures to enjoy. Thank you for sharing.

My goodness, I live in Australia and there were quite a few things in your treasure box that I recognise, having seen them in my grandmother’s and mother’s sewing baskets. How wonderful, thank you so much for showing us, it brought back so many memories!

Thank you so much for showing your DMC box. Really enjoyed it. Love old haberdashery items

Oh my....what a treasure you've got there!!! I recognised "Nesthäkchens Nadelmappe" My grandmother had one of those in her sewing box. She got it from her mother. Nesthäkchen is a german term for the youngest child. And it is also a famous book series from 100 years ago. My grandmother had those books as a child, but she lost them during WW2. They are still printed in Germany i guess, because I had them from the library. Wonderful story of a girl growing up in the upperclass of Berlin around the time of WW1. Love to hear you wittering! Please, never stop! Liefs, Helene

What a nostalgic journey to the Old World of our skillfull mothers and anties. ❤

What an absolute treasure!!! Such a beautiful box with all the lovely vintage items. I love that she organized using boxes and their lids. I am so looking forward to see how you organize it. I’m sure it’ll be such a treat! 🤩 Thank you for showing it, Kathryn!

Swoon! ❤❤ I have a weakness for anything with little drawers. And all the treasures inside, just incredible! I’m so happy it found its way to you!

I had several “honorary aunties”. My real aunties lived far away, so these ladies were very special.

Wow great to see you in the magazine. As for the razor blades my grandmother used them for a seam ripper. Works great.

What a delight,watching you unpack this beautiful treasure.Enjoyed it immensely . That tiny hook with the wooden handle I think was used to mend stockings. Thanks for sharing and enjoy ❤️. Love your videos.

A true treasure chest! The box itself is beautiful and the contents fascinating. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share it with us.

Kathryn, I Love this gorgeous box….couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person🌻 Many moons ago in my dressmaking days I used a tracing wheel religiously. After cutting the pattern, you put special carbon paper underneath the fabric and trace the stitching line on top. Then you take the pattern off, turn it all over and trace the other side. It was a very handy tool and made for accurate stitching. These days I’ve embraced the wonky side of my soul and only stitch in a wonky intuitive way so dressmaking has gone out the window to be replaced by slow stitching. Waiting with abated breath for tomorrow’s project - only one more sleep to go 👏👏👏💜 Cath

I'd be like Golem - my precious! I love boxes with the narrow drawers, ideal for sewing threads.

What a special gift!!! Yes, our sewing baskets tell our story! I've been missing your videos as the farm has kept me from all my art. 😢 But the garden and fields are an art in their own right.

I remember my mother having the same pin tin! Very nostalgic 😊 xx

How exciting we all enjoyed this reveal, thank you for sharing…

What a lucky gift Katherine! Thank you for sharing your beautiful DMC box and what a treasure it is. I’m sure it will find a good home in your hands. 💕

Beautiful and congratulations on the article of your awesome work. Will try to get a copy. Love the DMC box WOW and yummies, stunning colours, what a blessing hun xx

And.... CONGRATULATIONS on your magazine article👏🏻👏🏻💕💕

Thank you for showing us the treasure.

What a treasure. My grandmother had a table with a little drawer full of sewing odds and ends which I loved playing with as a little girl. I still love a drawer or box of bits and treasures

I couldn't stop smiling throughout this whole video! What a treasure chest❤

I've recently inherited my late mum's wooden sewing box, 2 pull out drawers, very 80's. Not full of vintage treasures such as yours but sentimental stuff I remember from my childhood. I'll treasure it 4ever.

Kathryn, please don’t ever stop wittering, I love listening to you when you’re wittering. 😂. I don’t use thimbles either. You could drill a tiny hole in the thimbles and use them as bobbles in your journals. The red handled thingy (don’t know its actual name) is exactly what you thought it is, for marking cloth for tailoring.

Oh that is such a treasure trove of vintage sewing paraphernalia! Beautiful box!

What a treasure! So beautiful and full of memories. My Mum had the Dewey pin tin - a memory I didn't know I had until I saw yours.. Congratulations on being in the magazine! Mary x

What a treasure!!! I'm so happy you shared this with us.

What a magical treasure trove.I love and collect vintage haberdashery so this was lovely to watch. I have purchased - on previous times spent in France - Papier d’Armenie which is a paper incense. I love the old style of the little booklets. Cheers, Christine 💙🧵🪡

Beautiful box, and I already got the magazine, very nice article about you. Thank you for showing! The thing with the serrated (?) wheel on it is called in Dutch a radeerwieltje, for copying sewing patterns out of magazines (with multiple sizes) on paper, you get little holes in the paper, so you can copy and cut the patterns to your size. Nowadays I use a transparant paper for copying, but in the past I have used it.

Oh my how beautiful. I can just see this sitting next to a rocker and her sewing away in front of a fire! I think that little screen thing is a custom button that you wrap fabric circle around. There was a small round insert that pushes and snaps the fabric into the back of the button form. The mini “pizza cutter” looks like a tracing wheel. There are small pieces of waxy paper with assorted colors. Place the tracing paper on top of fabric, then place pattern piece on top, then trace the outline of a dart or other markings and the image is transferred to the fabric for sewing guides. My tool was plastic, so it is lovely to see the original wood/metal style. Thank you for sharing. I very much enjoyed this! Oh also have never seen such a large quarter size snap! How unique! ❤

Drooling and feeling like one of those cartoon drawings of a dog when they see food / playmate : the ears flip up, the eyes pop out like hearts etc. Absolutely treasure with a capital TR. And in wonderful hands now instead of tucked away in a closet. I do want to see you use those poppers !🍀💖😍🤩😻

As soon as I saw this lovely box, I thought, Marian's boxes now have some envy competition. I am now seriously guilty of one of the seven deadly sins!!!

the box is gorgeous just love it, know you will cherish it

Hi there…. I have one of the red handled tracing wheels, I got it as a teenager whenI learnt to sew about 40 years ago in New Zealand. It came with several sheets of coloured paper that had a transferable coating on it. These were placed between the paper sewing pattern and your fabric and you used the wheel to mark out darts, seam lines, gathers etc

Congratulations on the article - so pleased more people can share your work and delight in it as we do. I keep a nail file in my kit so I can remove any burrs on needles; razor blades for cutting machine made button holes; one of the corks I would immediately use for the hole in the bottom of my granny's silver pepper pot we have long been unable to use because the corks can't be found any more; I guess the smelly stuff would slow down any cotton or silk munching wild life which may have strayed into the box! Wonderful video thank you.

Love all your new old treasures! The wheely thing with the red handle is a tracing wheel, I have one from my home economics class in high school. I remember making marks for darts in a dress with it.

Thank you for sharing your treasure box! It makes me think of the woman who owned it and how she neatly organized her things. As you touched them, I wondered if she ever had any idea of the box being passed on so lovingly. Truly a treasure!

I curate tin boxes full of sewing notioins and treasures ... your box inspires!! Congrats on the publication too!

Horseshoe box = Pocket shape What fun, sharing treasures!

What an amazing gift from your Auntie! I really enjoyed watching you show us this treasure - what a wonderful box of goodies. LOVED seeing inside - I adore all vintage sewing things and have quite a few hook and eye and press stud cards myself - as you say they are amazing-pre Velcro!!🤪

Wow K3n quel précieux trésor ❤DMC BOX Contente pour vous d’avoir un entrevu dans le Magazine Today’s Quilting Il n’est pas encore arrivé au Québec!! J’attends avec impatience Encore un énorme merci Dire Combien vous me faites du bien avec Votre bonne humeur 🥰 Et votre magnifique travail Merciiiii ❤

The most wonderful gift to you from your aunt :) 💝

Those little papers for burning sound like Lady Macbeth’s “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”. Thanks for such a fascinating video.

Ooh,what a gorgeous box,and so full of wonderful treasure! I love the pretty little pin tin.Especially love your favourite drawer too!

Oh my goodness........ a true treasure box. And..... you are the perfect recipient of this wonderful gift because you will appreciate and treasure all of the contents - not only the beautiful threads and needles and poppers..... but also the boxes and the cards and labels and papers. Oh my........ Enjoy it all Kathryn !!!!!

So fun! Thanks for showing.

WOW!!!! That was very fascinating to watch you go through each drawer. That DMC box is very much a TREASURE! It went to the perfect person. Congratulation on your magazine article. Now I will need to get a copy! THANK YOU so much for showing & sharing!!!❤❤❤❤😊

How lovely!

Lovely box.

It’s beautiful!

Beautiful!

I collect vintage sewing crocheting supplies ! I use them also ! I also love the vintage packaging! Reminds me of being a little girl and my mom or grandma sewing! My grandma had a foot paddle machine and she taught me to use it when I was 5! A lovely older neighbor taught me to tatting! I am trying to remember how to tattin! That DMC wooden box is lovely!

Super surprise ! On découvre à chaque tiroir des anciens fils des vieilles agraphes des pressions des rubans extra fort vraiment une mercerie très bientôt ancienne et très rare actuellement on ne voit pas beaucoup !! Merci pour le partage je suis très contente et j'aime beaucoup ❤❤

A wonderful gift and I love the content

Very cool. Love all the vintage pieces 😍

What a beautiful box to have ❤

She had so many poppers because in the day making button holes with your sewing machine was a challenge. I love that you call them poppers…we call them snaps. Love this review. I’ve collected many old sewing and knitting tools. Thanks.

What an amazing treasure!

What fun that was!

Beautiful box of treasures. ❤️❤️🌺

This was so fun and I will watch again for sure. I love the old old used sewing supplies from someone collection. Thank you!

What an absolute treasure! I've assimilated both my Grandmas and mums sewing boxes into my sewing parifinalia. I love that I am able to use their things, it brings them closer to me. And oh yes! So, so many hooks & eyes and press studs!

What a beautiful gift. Thank you for sharing.

This is a beautiful piece. Wow! You are so lucky. And that’s just the first bottom drawer can’t wait to see the rest. This is so exciting.

Fantastic!

What a wonderful box. It must give you lots of joy to use it

What a beautiful box with lovely contents.

Such treasures. Thank you for sharing. 💕

What a treasure! I love looking for things like this at second hand shops!

Good morning! I clicked like 👍 in a hurry. I love the box!

What a wonderful treasure to be gifted! So much fun to go through. Enjoy! Congratulations on your magazine article! I will look for it today as I shop.

Congratulations Katherine- MUCH deserved 🎉 Beautiful box and goodies within ❤

Oh, that was a marvelous video……I love sewing boxes/baskets etc that are filled with a loved ones sewing ‘life’! Thank you for sharing!

Ohhhhhh!!!!!❤❤❤❤ What a delightful and absolute Treasure!!!!🥰 Beautiful box and the little original boxes the threads are in!!! Oh what a treat!!! Merci for sharing this!!! How wonderful!!!❤❤❤

Wow! What an amazing box of treasures! I have been looking forward to this since you posted about it!

What a treasure! Thank you for sharing the sewing box and its contents with us.

Beautiful treasures

What a wonderful gift with sew many fun items for stitching and junk journaling. The lace bobbins would be pretty as spine dangles.

Congratulations on the magazine article! I’m very happy for you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Your treasures are lovely. Thanks for sharing. ❤️

It is so beautiful ❤ What a treasure 🧵🪡🧵

What a lovely gift! Thanks for sharing your treasure!

That is a real treasure 😮 thank You for sharing 😊

Lovely box of treasures, thank you for sharing. Congratulations on your magazine feature.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful TREASURE K3n! Congratulations for the magazine article! ❤

Drooling with envy 😮such a gorgeous gift!

How lovely! How can such simple things give so much delight? i cannot help but feel a tiny bit envious of you. Thank you for sharing. x

In fact, Kathryn, I have an “oh yes!” about a lot of things in your box, because my mum gave me one (not a DMC box). The little wheelie tool -to use with coloured wax paper to transfer marks from a paper pattern onto cloth, or possibly with tailor’s chalk. I have one and have used it when dressmaking but several decades ago, so I might be mistaken ! Thank you for sharing your exploration with us. Really lovely.

I am so happy watching you go through the box. I remember my mother's sewing box. And she too had many eye and hook closures. I remember almost all of her skirts and jackets used those eyes and hooks. I love it! 💖 And I love your sensible wittering. It is so relaxing.

Love your special gift. The round roller is a tracing wheel for use with tracing paper that has was colors on the paper. It will allow you to trace the cutting and sewing lines from a pattern onto your fabric.