Looking round the garden this morning, it would certainly seem so! First in the front garden
the hawthorn hedge
flowering currant
lupin
poppy
Then in the back garden (oops, I've forgotten the names of the first two plants)
The helebore suddenly has several flowers
It's not just the plants that think spring has arrived - the first sighting of a greenfly!
This tiny seedling must have grown from a seed from one of the cones that I has put in this large pot
When we were in Hawick this morning, we popped into the Shelter charity shop ....... I was doing my bit both for charity and the environment by handing in an empty printer cartridge. We had a browse, and found these little books. They are beautifully produced, and have excellent photos of lots of wildflowers - as they were only 50 pence each, I splashed out and bought all three!!
After lunch, I started work onn my next sample for Anne. The beautiful fabrics ......
...... the patterns for twelve stitcheries
and the embroidery threads
will (eventually!) make this quilt
I started by cutting the squares of fabric, and the squares of thin wadding, for the stitcheries, then used the iron-on transfers - a quick and easy way to mark the fabric. Next I tacked the wadding on to the back of the first stitchery
The last job of the afternoon was to wind the threads on to card bobbins and select some embroidery needles
I'll start sewing later, once I've had a browse through my favourite blogs!!