Really nice little kit. The biggest appeal is the metal tin box with clear lid that it comes in! It just screams "Christmas Present" from grandparents I think! At least I would have loved one of these all those years ago...
The little scissors in my kit actually worked fairly well, they rarely do in sewing kits, so this was Another definite plus point. They did have the usual child-safer rounded ends.
The instructions are not too detailed, but should be good enough. The intent of this kit is not so much on making things, as learning some very nice embroidery stitches that you can use to embelish things you already have. You can get more comprehensive instructions from websites, or even old books that are freely available to download as they are no longer in copyright. But they are just not as much fun as this kit is!
There is a layer underneath the the top layer in the tin, and that contains a lot more goodies. These too are more embellishments for existing things, than complete projects in their own right. However there are lots of things like a complete set of large felt cut-out letters so that you can put your initials on things or spell out basic words or names.
The needles in mine were sharp and seem to be good quality.
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