Homespun scraps, 2024 MT spools, zippered pouches

I was busy the last couple days with lots of different things: laundry, dishes, making soup, continuing the fabric storage room straightening up, and looking for my rotary cutter. I had moved a lot of stuff around with company coming and forgot where I had put the rotary cutter. It took me a half hour to find it, but I found it! I then could get finished with the homespun scraps. I got the red scraps pieced together and got 9 nine inch blocks. The blue and tan are 3 1/2" squares.

Here are my empty spools for 2024. Not too bad.

I got a bit distracted from quilting the t-shirt quilt. I decided to work on the zippered pouches that someone had asked me to make for a cross stitch retreat. She asked for 24. Here are the two that are done.

It dawned on me that I should use my Sulky Rayon thread to quilt the fabric to try and use some of this thread up. I used to buy it when it was on sale and collected a rainbow of colors.

It takes me about a half hour to quilt the fabric for two pouches. I have a template I made out of mat board. It is helpful to have one side gray and one side white to get the contrast for cutting.

I use a ruler to help make the straight cuts then free hand cut the curve. I mark the bottom corners with a washable marker and cut those with scissors.

Here is the pouch all ready for the zipper

I had this one fabric that has a large print. I wasn't even trying and the print worked perfectly to have the large motif on each side. These will be so cute!

I have 16 pouches ready for zippers

and fabric for six more to quilt.