Table Scraps in Orange and a DrEAMi...

To make this month's Table Scraps placemat, I started with a piece I had made at least a year ago from a tutorial on Joyful Quilter's blog. I shared this photo on my To-Do Tuesday post.

Unfortunately, Joy says the tutorial is no longer available.

But I did enjoy playing with some charm squares to

create this design in the first place!

It wasn't quite the right size to begin with, so I added 1.5 inch strips of an orange solid to bring the placemat to 12.5 x 16.5 inches. Add some simple quilting and a mellow blue binding, and the placemat was done quickly!

So now there are nine!

The orange looks really florescent - I promise it isn't!

But wait, there's more!

Originally I made two of these pieced sections. What should I do with the other one?

I was thinking maybe a quick zipper pouch, and I remembered this tutorial from Sew Preeti Quilts. I made one of these before, when I first started reading Preeti's blog. Simplest Zippered Pouch. It really is simple! I layered the top piece with some batting and backing, quilted the layers, and found an orange zipper.

Following the steps of the tutorial gave me a finished zipper pouch in about an hour. I think this one will be handy for using somewhere that a flat pouch would be useful, like in a suitcase?!

9.5 x 7

The backing/lining piece I used is one of those big print fabrics that I could never figure out another use for! It was perfect for this pouch.

***Sharing my pouch at mmmquilts for the September DrEAMi link-up since this was a true "drop everything and make it " project. Plus it turned out to be the perfect size and shape to carry masks, hand sanitizer, and packets of bleach wipes on our recent trip! I didn't even plan it that way.***

So there's my week in an orange nutshell!