Snickers Sewing Tin

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Apparently the vintage Snickers and Twix tins are the top stocking stuffer picks this year. I'm a semi-compulsive collector of nifty containers, and being a fan of Snickers, I couldn't resist it. Stumbled upon them at Bed Bath & Beyond in the holiday section for ~$6, but just found more at my local supermarket seasonal aisle for ~$4. Once empty, I had no idea what to do with it. That is, until I had to move out of my way the flimsy packaging of a sewing kit. Hey! A dozen little spools of thread would fit nicely into that tin, leaving room to spare. But they just rattle around and that's not good, and certainly not the mark of a civilized individual! To the drawing board! The end result is this model. A tray designed to hold the spools in place, each on their own little post, and a handle to lift the tray in and out. To one side is a spot for a pincushion because needles are fine and dandy for sewing, but you'll likely need some pins to hold things in place at some point. Additionally there's a magnetized sewing needle holder. The magnets do double duty to hold the needles to the holder and fasten the holder to the inside of the tin. The thread I have in the kit is essentially this: Singer Mercerized Cotton Hand Thread, Assorted Colors, 12 Spools. Or, you can populate it with any mini-spools of thread that fall somewhere around the following dimensions: 21.5mm wide x 26mm high x 8mm hole. The magnets were some I had gathering dust from a previous project, and are 6mm wide x 2mm thick. Fasten them into the holes with a drop of CA glue, and the holes are snug enough that they will need a bit of a poke to snap them in properly. Possibly snug enough that you may be able to do without the glue, but glue is cheap insurance that you won't have to put them back in. I'm including two versions of this model: A split version with left and right pieces and a separate handle for smaller format printers, and a whole version that can be printed as a single piece for larger format printers.