A traveling kit will hold some of the articles you need in order to be well groomed when you visit your friends—your toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, hairbrush, hand lotion, kleenex, etc. Or it can be used to hold some of the supplies you need to keep your clothes well groomed when you are traveling, such as a clothes brush, shoe polish, and shoe brush. [Illustration: {Traveling kit}] What you will learn • To choose and match pretty colors. • To do some hand basting. • To stitch a seam. • To top-stitch (stitching one piece of material on top of another). • To stitch straight by following a line in the design of the material. What you will do first You will need to go shopping with your mother to buy the towels, washcloths, shoestrings, and thread. [Illustration: Will this color look nice with Mother’s dishes?] Two plain-colored, terry cloth finger towels. [Illustration: Does one color MATCH your towel?] One striped or checked washcloth (the design will be your guide in stitching). [Illustration: Does their color MATCH a color in The WASH CLOTH?] One pair of plain colored shoestrings—27 inches long. Two spools of thread; 1 to match stripes and shoestrings and 1 to match the towels. You will also need these tools from your sewing box: Large shears Pins and pincushion Thimble Paper bag 21-inch ruler Needle Scissors Take another good peek at what your placemat will look like when you are finished (page 18). In order to clearly show how you will stitch the washcloth to the towel, a plain washcloth is used in the illustrations instead of a checked or striped one like you will be using in your project. Start with the washcloth _Fold_ the washcloth _in half_ with the stripes running up and down. Then _pin the open edges together_ with 3 or 4 pins. [Illustration: FOLD and CUT] Use shears to cut through the fold of the washcloth to cut it in half. (Your leader will show you how to handle the shears so that you can take long, even cutting strokes.) [Illustration: PIN, FOLD, CUT EDGE, PIN] Fold each half washcloth again to find the center. Mark the center with a pin at the cut edge and on the hem edge. Get the towels ready Find the center of the towels by folding each in half—crosswise and right side out. (If you do not recognize the right side of the towel, ask your leader to help you.) [Illustration: Are you working on the RIGHT SIDE of the towel?] Mark the center of each towel with pins, as you did the washcloth. But since the towel is bigger than the washcloth, you will need at least three pins on the fold to mark the center line. Also insert a row of pins on the right side of the towel, ½ inch from the lower hem of the towel. Sew the washcloth and towel together