Fabric Test A Success

 I got some 54-inch wide fabric, on-line, for a quilt I am planning for a friend.  It was on sale, but when I received it, it did not feel like cotton.  I rechecked the website; it said 100% cotton, made in France.  I decided to do a test of the fabric.  It pressed wonderfully. I made a small quilt, then I immediately washed it in Woolite and tumbled it, on low, in the dryer for a few minutes, then allowed it to dry flat.  The fabric passed the test.  It is quite durable, but not heavy.  It has quite a sheen and seems a little heavier than some quilting cottons, but it worked beautifully in this quilt.  I think it will be wonderful in the quilt I am planning for my friend.

The test fabric is the gray with pineapples.  This quick project also gave me the opportunity to use some of the precuts I had stashed away.

Commuting to Work Has It's Rewards

 My IPOD Mini is reddish-pinkish-orange.  Friday morning, August 28, I added eVe to my IPOD, then I headed off to work. My IPOD was playing my 'Space and Time' playlist.  I headed south on Ten Mile Road.  As I entered the left turn-lane to get on the interstate, "Mom's Spaghetti" (an awesome piece of music), began playing.  I turned left, onto the on-ramp, and for a split second, time slowed down as traffic disappeared and the lava red-orange sun burned massive against the white sky, with it's southwest edge still tucked behind the black silhouette of the mountain.  Oh, it took my breath.  Then, back to reality, in a long line of cars merging, but wishing I had a chair at the top of the on-ramp, so I could sit and absorb that beauty undisturbed.  

As I continued to drive, I glanced it before me, and reflected on the rewards of commuting,  Seeing that beauty . . .without it we would not exist.  What a beginning to another glorious day!