One finished, the next laid out

I finished sewing the log cabin/Manx blocks together on Tuesday and the 48" x 48" top is now folded and hanging in the closet for quilting... eventually.  Some hot day I'll turn the AC on high and sandwich and quilt away.

With the guest bed empty again, I laid out the Christmas blocks of the month I won at guild.  They are all kinds of sizes round 12.5", but only one really needed to be trimmed square.  Today I'm heading over to the Burlington area with the genealogy club.  After a tour of the genealogy library there and after lunch, a few of us will go to a quilt shop for a while.  I need dark green and red sashing pieces for the Christmas blocks and am sure to find them as well as anything else I might feel the "need" to buy.  I'll add alternate borders to get all the Christmas blocks the same size (14.5"?).  Then I'll add a Christmas-themed border to the whole quilt so that it ends up being about 60" x 60".

My gardens are doing well, and the flowers Gale and I dug up Friday and I planted Sunday are growing well.  They will bloom in their own time.  Yesterday I met Jan who had some bee balm for me, so I'll try to plant that between raindrops later today.  Our bulbs are almost finished blooming, but the crabapple trees and lilacs are about to pop.  (Photo is from 2016)   Spring is here!