First Bloom

It's only January 13, and we have our first bloom on the bulbs the resident gardener planted. Wow, when the bulbs are planted, it seems that it will be forever until they poke through, or Spring at least--and here we are. We even had an almost warm day, mostly sunny.

Meanwhile, I am just trying to finish up old things. This Cheese and Crackers top has been done with the back prepared, so it was easy to quilt and bind.



I've been doing more Pam Cakes variations. This one is pairs sewn with a little cross bar on the top/bottom of the block. I put dark bars on the dark pairs, lights on the lights. The little bars were some odd 2 1/2" strips from the scrap bags. The border was a scrap of extra wide fabric, that I cut into fourths. So it made a nice 5" border, and that piece of fabric is all gone. So is the binding and a major chunk of the 56" wide back piece.










Today's best....blooms in the sunshine.