Making My Mark

In 2013, I wrote a post about selected sewing markers and remember seeing all the good options, sewing markers looked like porn. Then I used my own set of plastic sewing markers. I never liked these markers for sewing because I thought they were ugly, but I no longer liked their fragility. They have the shape of small padlocks, but they break easily, so I avoid locking and unlocking them, and often find that one of them relaxes with just a light pressure on my arm while holding a set of markers. I never lost a sewing marker, but the stars clicked and clicked one after the other until I had about two dozen of the last eight or nine I landed on. Then it’s time to think about re-election, and I can’t apologize for justifying replacing an old kit. I finally have some great sewing markers!

When I reviewed a previous KNDD publication to figure out which marker to buy, my own research reminded me that I can make my own marker for stitches. I did a few beads and I already had the tools and research and it was all about finding the right beads.





For this project, I was looking for thin medium-sized beads that would not stick and hold on to the thread I used. I’ve tried to keep costs as low as possible, and if you have basic bidding tools, then it’s very possible to do this simple project for very little money. I also found that I wanted to have a sewing marker of a different color that I could color by noting different things (e.g.).

When in January I bought beads for necklaces and earrings for my granddaughter’s 10th birthday , I found an orange glass bead that you see above as a “free bead”. I bought 1 pearl. I found two red beads and two colored jaspers that you can see in my bead storage box above - that’s all I saved from this species. The ivory pearl necklaces pictured are necklaces I bought at Value Village for $ 2 with a $ 2 discount coupon I received from them for completing an online survey. I was very happy to be collecting beads for this project for free ... until I tried to make markers for sewing and found that the ivory bead holes were too big for the project. whistle. I took the ivory beads and put it in my box with suggestions for future use is still unknown. I then bought another second hand necklace for 25 2.25 and this time I checked the holes before buying the necklace to see if the beads matched.





To make your own sewing markers, you will need a hairpin, earrings with a lever and a few basic tools: cutters, needles and pliers or pliers (not pictured). Put the bead on the pin, add the earring, and then wrap the tip of the pin around the NileNose pliers until a small loop is formed. Cut the excess length of the header pin with a cutter, clamp the circle you made with pliers or pliers, and ... voila.





This is a ready-made sewing marker. Given my large stock of twenty sewing markers (I rarely work on multiple knitting projects at once), they can’t break and I won’t lose anything, they will last a while if you have them. in the ear Looks like a pendant, but the reason is that basically I want my thread to be as light as possible, although I will put more effort into the design of the earring than with this marker. the air around me as little as possible.

I’ll be holding orange square beads together and maybe one day I’ll make myself earrings ... so I won’t be tempted to borrow two of my sewing markers for a special occasion with an orange dress.