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!!
