Early Bird

Good morning, my friends. Yes, it's true I said I'd be posting later today if I posted at all. And so if you thought you were going to be able to drink your coffee in peace this morning, you'll be disappointed. Here I am flapping my lips again. There was an early start to my morning, and so I find myself with time to spare.

Since I knew I'd be leaving early this morning, I did this morning's slow-stitching yesterday evening while we watched the news. And so I have two Tiny Treasures to show you this morning. This one is Tiny Treasure #43. It has stem stitch, straight stitch, and backstitch.

And this is Tiny Treasure #44. It has stem stitch and satin stitch.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, it was a pedicure day, and so I left around 11:30 a.m. Before that, I had some time to spend in the sewing room. My first task was to rework those half square triangles I'd sewn together wrong. They also needed trimming. There were 16 of these.

Smitty helped me with that, and then he helped me arrange them.

When they were sewn together, I could finish sewing the blocks together.

When it was time to leave, I had them this far.

After I got home, I finished sewing them together. They just needed borders from here.

And there's March's red block.

And there's April's pink block.

With those finished, I'm caught up on my Rainbow Scrap project for 2026. Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

That pretty well used up what remained of the day. I was outside for a bit and noticed the first tulip has bloomed. There are about a half dozen tulips in this whiskey barrel, and there's one around the front of the house. The tulips are celebrated only when the deer don't eat them first.

Okay, and as I mentioned in yesterday's post, I'm leaving early this morning to walk with Sue. We're going to cross a newly-opened footbridge in a neighboring town. It'll be a short walk back and forth across the bridge, and then we'll walk to the historic part of the little town of Sherwood. Sherwood has expanded in the way small towns do, and it borders the highway leading to the Oregon coast. Most people only see that "highway" part of Sherwood. There is, however, and older and more charming part of town about two miles from the main road. When we've walked over the bridge, we'll walk the rest of the way to Sherwood proper and get ourselves a snack there before heading back. Sounds like a nice way to spend a sunny morning, no?

And with that, I must go. Have a good day, Everybody!