Stitchy Fingers

Well ... it's been a long time since I've last crocheted a thing and as we all know crafters have a large area of interests! ;-) I plan on starting two shawl projects. The first one I've found via Rachel of Country & Cosy . She likes the patterns soo much that she's making three shawls at the same time, each in a different colour. I have the same type of yarn but in another colour combo :-).   The second one is called "Blue Oceans" via Jellina Creations . Doesn't the name alone sound wonderfull ;-)? I've got a couple of cotton "balls" that will be perfect for it (and that I'll love making when we're on holiday at the coast)! Thanks ladies for your patterns - or the links to them!

Hope you aren't getting bored with my updates on Dear Jane! I'm sooo in love with this quilt and it's colours - sometimes I amaze myself :-). I got a good advice from the ladies in the quilt shops I often go to : "don't buy your fabrics all at once but build it up row by row". For me this is an advice that works. So without further ado ... It's on my kitchen floor because it's becoming too big ... 34 blocks so far   Green row - from right to up to left : C7 : start Sunday 29th of June - finish Monday 30th of June 2014 D6 : start and finish - Monday 30th of June 2014 E5 : start and finish - Tuesday 1st of July 2014 F4 : start and finish - Friday 4th of July 2014 G3 : start and finish - Saturday 5th of July 2014 H4 : start and finish - Saturday 5th of July 2014 I5 : start and finish - Sunday 6th of July 2014 J6 : start Sunday 6th of July - finish Monday 7th of July 2014 K7 : start Wednesday 9th of July - finish Thursday 10t...

Hi all, Saturday 12th I passed the border to Holland in order to follow a workhop "Ramen lappen" with Ingrid from the blog Supergoof and Dorry from Quilt it and Dotty in Tilburg. I didn't know what to expect from the town but it was bigger than I imagined (it is the 6th biggest town in Holland). Both windows (left and right of the entry door)   The shop seen from two different angles   As for the workshop ... It meant that we were going to try and learn the Cathedral Windows technique. Apparantly it can be explained in a couple of ways but we all agreed that Ingrid's (and Dorry's) way was the nicest and maybe also the easiest. I don't know the others methods but I will be sticking with this method as it worked out fine for me and the other nine participating ladies. The kit was available in red-beige or beige-blue (I took the beige-blue) Our groups were divided in two "parties" ;-)... I was in the kitchen with 4 other ...

I'm on a roll and don't wanna stop! ADDICTION!!! ;-) I'm trying to do as much as possible on the "green tour" because I want to show off with my Dear Jane this Saturday (12th) because I'm going to the Supergoof class in Holland - hosted by Quilt It & Dotty - where she'll tell us how to make Cathedral Windows, followed by a lovely lunch made by Dorry and a show-and-tell in the afternoon by Ingrid. A blog post about the previous lesson can be found at Ingrid's website . Sooo ... here's a piccie from my quilt WIP (taken on July 1st)! The red tour entirely finished! In the meanwhile I've already made 9 green blocks (an upload from my Ipad - with a more recent piccie - doesn't work for the moment). See you soon!

On Saturday 5th of July our Red Devils played their 5th match in the quarter finals against Argentina. What we hoped for didn't come through ... we lost with 0-1 against Argentina (in 1982 we won with 1-0 against them - and Diego Maradona). 1982 against Argentina I think we can be proud of our national team which was one of the youngest teams in the championships. Who knows what we'll see of them within two or four years when they're more mature? Have a nice week!

On Tuesday our national football team played their 4th match in the 1/8th finals against the USA. It was an exciting match with plenty of opportunities (we went 14 times for the goal - the USA but 4 times) but they weren't able to score immediately. Only in the 30 minutes of prolongations the final result was : Belgium 2 - USA 1. Full time: Belgium 0 USA 0. Thirty more minutes. Can you handle it? GOAL! BELGIUM 1 USA 0 (De Bruyne 92) It’s the substitute Lukaku who makes it, bursting down the right and squaring to De Bruyne who skips inside some tired challenges and fires across Howard and into the corner. Howard sticks out a leg - an effective approach so far - but he can't keep it out. GOAL! BELGIUM 2 USA 0 (Lukaku 104) Belgium are surely into the last eight. Once again it's on the counter. It's a reversal of the first goal as De Bruyne threads a pass through to Lukaku and the finish is emphatic, rifling past Howard first time with his left foot. ...