Well, it's about time!

 Emie's Etui is done!

I had planned to stay up Tuesday until the innards of the case were assembled, and I did. Only they were assembled in the wrong place. I created new ugly words, ripped out, and went to bed.

It is very rare that I sleep the night through. Generally, I wake up 4 or 5 hours after I go to bed. If I can make myself relax, I can drop off, but if my brain clicks on, I'm doomed for an hour or so before I can finally get back to sleep. Generally I obsess about something going on at work, which is not a pleasant way to spend the wee dark hours of the night.

In fact, I had wondered, with my impending retirement, what in the world I would think about in the middle of the night.

Now I know. I'll think about putting things together and where I went wrong and how to fix it. As it was, I thought about that the other night to the point of ridiculousness. I finally got up, came downstairs, and sewed the case together again.

In a new and also wrong way.

At this point, Emie went into time-out and I did other things until I finally decided that walking into walls was a bad idea. I went back upstairs and took a nap.

And when I got up that time, I got the case sewn together the way it should have been.

This has some interesting construction.  There are pockets inside for the scissors and thread winder.

And there is a pocket on the outside that holds the needle book:

That's the slit at the top, between the bows. The needle book slides right in.

And I was asked what the inside of the needle book looks like:

In the interest of full disclosure, I must mention that there is supposed to be a little felt button bag that sits on the cord for the closure band. I made the button bag, then tried to thread the cord that would connect it to the closure band through a couple of buttons that act as stoppers. I broke both of the ones that came with the kit. Not a problem--I have buttons in the stash. So I found a couple that were about the same size but a little thicker--and broke both of them.

At that point, I was done and declared the project complete.

Now, on to the next finishing project. I have a sweet bag that needs to have eyelets added before the final finishing. I have a project that needs to have a box lined and a couple of smalls assembled. Then I have two sets of smalls with multiple pieces and more complicated assemblies.

I think I'll take a nap before I decide.