Five things on my sewing table

My sewing table is the smallest piece of furniture in the studio and the most-used. Here are five things that earn their place on it.

A small pair of curved snips. The straight ones are still in the drawer somewhere. The curved ones, with the lovely orange grips, have not left the table for three years.

A wooden seam roller. A finger press is fine for short seams. For long ones, especially on the Linden Quilt, the wooden roller saves my wrist and gives a crisper finish.

A jar of bobbins, already wound, in the colours I sew with most. Bobbin winding is the sort of small chore that always feels longer than it is. Keeping a jar of pre-wounds means I never lose momentum mid-seam.

A tiny notebook. Not for sketching, just for noting needle changes, thread weights, and the day I last cleaned the machine.

A flat dish for pins. Never a pincushion. Pincushions look beautiful and lose pins.