The World’s Sweetest Needle book – process videos

I wanted to sew my own version of Ann Wood’s free sewing pattern World’s Sweetest Needle book. It took a while, but I am stubborn. I finished it, then I photographed it, then I edited three videos of the process of me creating the needle book, the World’s Sweetest Needle book as she called it. Well, two, because the first one is connected but not really in the series. I filmed it when I started rummaging through my grandma’s (dad’s mother, my farmor) old sewing box, where I did some interesting finds.

I like that video is a little time capsule of finding and ephemeral things like a box of sewing notions, things that came from many different times and that then once more, will be scattered around, used, lost, thrown away or forgotten. I like video for the rummaging, the looking, the documenting of the moment that this was. I was also excited by my finds, and wanted to share the content of the box with you guys.

This happened in 2020, so five years ago. Yes, I started this very small and manageable project five years ago (!), and I’m just now telling you about it. Why? I dunno. Or well, I know that I got side-tracked by life and forgot about it for a while and when I decided I wanted to finish it I could not…

This was because at one point I thought I’d lost all the loose pieces that was going to be stitched together to create the needle book. Then I re-found them three years later but could not find the last piece so had to redo a few things. It’s always fun and adventurous around here!

But in the end I stitched according to the pattern, mostly. I created a memory piece, kind of. I made something cute and useful for myself, which was really sweet.

Video 2: The World’s Sweetest Needle book process

Video 3: The World’s Sweetest Needle book finishing

I’m a bit sad that it took me so long to finish the project, but being a craft sloth that sometimes happen, and I am just grateful to have this project under my belt for now. And in my little embroidery pouch, together with some threads and many other ongoing projects that slowly slowly nears completion too.

Here are are few images of how it looks finished:

If you visit YouTube you can watch the videos in slow-mo and maybe it will take you too five years to finish… LOL. Just kidding. You can turn on subtitles or listen to me being dubbed to Italian or German I think. JFYI.

Thanks for stitching along.

• Ann Wood’s free sewing pattern of the World’s Sweetest Needle Book