2013 is here, and so are we. . .

usually, when I need photos for this here blog, I ask Miriam if she'd be so kind to take 'em, and I set them up and all sort of thing, but today she looked into the printery and said she'd like to take a picture or two - and here I am, the happy recipient of these to kick off the new year - all to do with the binding of RED SQUARE being ready to enter its last procedure - 

tho it was the ball of cut threads ready for sewing that first caught her eye -

which then led onto this -

with two variants on a more or less single view -

and this -