Sunshine Makes a Lovely Day

Monday night:  I am beginning to make this seat cover.  First step is to spray baste  one of the African fabrics to the felted mattress pad piece.  I usually buy a crib or twin and cut them to size.  I spray baste, iron and cut to size of felted piece.  Next step will be to spray baste the fabric for the other side on...Once this is ironed and wrinkle free, I quilt it....usually using the wiggle stitch one way 3 inches apart.  The back fabric is cut with a one inch excess in order to self bind...voila...so done.  Next time it rains and my outdoor cushions are all wet, out this comes to protect my bottom from a wet seat.. Great for pets and kids and  old ladies who spill..

Tuesday night  finish...easy peasy.

An inside pix...already to put outside if needed post rain.

With a utilitarian piece like this I like to double stitch the binding.

Love that the cover is two sided.

This was all finished while watching tonight's Charlotte Modern Quilt group meeting.

And:  binding made too....Good Lord binding is a pain in the  patoot!

Yesterday I had the energy to go to Marshalls just to look around...I went past the childrens clothes and past the childrens toys.  I went past the cooking supplies and indeed the cleaning supplies...None of these are needed at my age and place.  I did buy this adorable mug, just for me , to celebrate the day and the sun and my outing....

Tonight I made guacamole for dinner... We used to have a avocado tree when we lived in Miami.  Very  large avocados...I miss that tree like it was  yesterday.  I used to fly to Merida, Mexico where I learned to make salsa from our tomatoes.  We would drive down to Homestead to the U-pick farms.  I learned then that picking them green and putting them in the window...they would ripen in stages. What I did not  know, but have now learned on Instagram:  How to keep avocados from going bad by storing them in the refrigerator in a bowl of cold water.   And, how to fold a tortilla with  cheese and onion, putting it in the toaster for a quick toasted quesadilla with no mess.

Jeeze Louize, evidently this is a three day post .  It is 5 am, Wednesday morning and I am up eating breakfast. (memories, we had a banana tree in Miami too.)

Hoping, as finish this post, and I go back to bed, that this will be the third of a run of good days!!