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Turn your Mutti Pasta Sauce jar into a fun and practical container for storing threads, buttons or little creative secrets. Perfect to keep on your worktable or to gift to someone you love.

What do you need

  • 1 Mutti Pasta Sauce jar
  • 1 kitchen sponge
  • Scissors
  • Hot glue
  • Needle, thread and coloured ribbon
  • A scrap of fabric (pattern of your choice)

Step 1

Use the jar lid to draw a circle on a kitchen sponge.

Step 2

Shape the kitchen sponge with scissors, turning it into a small dome.

Step 3

Cover the dome with a scrap of fabric in the pattern you like most.

Step 4

Close the fabric scrap by stitching it at the back with a needle and thread.

Step 5

Using hot glue, glue the small dome onto the lid of the jar.

Step 6

You can make the lid even more beautiful by decorating it with a colourful ribbon.

Step 7

Fill the jar and voilà: a lovely container to keep all your sewing supplies neatly organised! And it is also perfect as a super original gift too.

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