Just Kitting

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning since I need to leave for a haircut this morning. I dread the thought of going out into the horrible weather we've been experiencing the past couple of days. Already, we've accumulated nearly 2 inches of rain, and we're not finished yet. Seeing the weather report last night, radar showed solid rain for as far as radar could reach. Satellite images showed the area beyond in solid cloud cover. Sheesh. Oregon at its worst. 

So I spent the whole of my sewing day making up a kit for the remaining four Raggedy & Friends blocks. Sadie was my helper cat. She's as bored with this process as I am.

The pieces for the remaining four blocks are shown below. The embroidery is only finished on Block 9, and so this is both a sewing and an embroidery kit. Blocks 10, 11, and 12 each have two embroidered sections.

Each block is packaged in it's own zip-lock bag.

And then all four bags were contained in this one large bag along with the items I'll need for the embroidery. I always include a pen with my embroidery projects, since I sometimes miss a line here or there. If I can't stitch it free-hand, then I can draw in the missing line with a pen.

I was doing laundry while I was working on this, and I was beyond ready to quit by the time I finished. With about 15 minutes left so spare in the day, I bagged up my bonus triangles and the cut-off bits and bobs. Usually, I take these with me when we travel south. We didn't go south last winter, and so I have two years' accumulation of this stuff. Bonus triangles on the right...cut-off bits on the left.

I'll just start sewing it all together and see what I can make of it. Sometimes the cut off bits can be pieced into a larger quilt. It can be a good way to practice free motion quilting. This is the quilt I made from pieces a few years ago. I called it Waste Not Whatnots.

Some of the blocks for this project were made from the bonus triangles I'd accumulated. Others were orphaned blocks and stuff I sewed together however I could make it work. It was kind of fun. It ended up going to this young man.

So, if I'm going to have time for breakfast and a little slow-stitching, then I must be on my way. I'm hopeful I'll have time to make a kit from the last of the Gumballs blocks today. Given how long it took to do the cutting for the Raggedy & Friends projects, I'm not sure I can finish it in one day. It's the last one I'm going to do, and so it'll feel like a victory when it's all finished, if not today, then tomorrow.