Prepping for making small curved top pouches

My arms are still sore, but not just from shoveling. Friday after work I headed to the mall to pick up my order. I wanted to get a few more steps in so I parked at the opposite end of the mall from where I needed to pu my order. I didn't think two sets of twin sheets and one queen set would weigh almost 14 pounds. They were wrapped up tightly in one package. I did stop for a minute to rest my arms just before I headed out the door to the car.

On Saturday my arms got another workout from beating on my drum at the protest for two hours. The wind gusts kept wanting to blow my setup over so I had to wrestle it to keep it upright.

There were a couple hundred people there. I took this picture close to the end of the protest. See that sky? Well, I was walking to the car and a squall blew in of graupel. That's graupel on my pants.

I stopped at the grocery store on my way home and the roads were getting covered quickly. It did stop about 10 minutes after it started. After getting something to eat and falling asleep in my sewing room chair for a short nap, I decided to work on putting together the pieces for making curved top pouches. I already had 67 pieces of batting cut to size so it was time to use the scrap pieces I had found when I sorted my scraps. I also decided to go thru the piles in the fabric storage room and pull-out pieces that would work for pouches and/or fabric I didn't like. Here is what the shelves looked like before and after. I still have more to go thru, but I found a lot of good stuff for the pouches.

I started sandwiching the pieces together; a bottom piece face down and press,

a piece of batting

the outside piece of fabric, pressed all three layers

trim the excess fabric and repeat 66 more times!

I have all the little sandwiches sorted by color

I used all the batting pieces I had so I took this pile of batting scraps,

sewed them together, and ended up with 52 more!

I still have a bunch of fabric pieces that need paired up.

In case you are thinking I have lost my mind, I am making these for a retreat I am going to as little gifts. I first want to get the sandwiches made, then I will start quilting them. I got so wrapped up in this I didn't get any quilting done on the t-shirt quilt.