almost ... ?

The first day of October 

isn't thát far away, only one week,

which means :

my third  blogaversary 

(so hard to imagine : three years of blogging !)

Though I forgot the second one

(probably because I was too busy to notice)

this time my giveaway for the blogaversary is finished !

yes ... only a small part of it,

the rest of the quiltlet will be revealed in a week !

However ... I can show you something else.

Remember I made a little quilt for a friend ???

I just got an e-mail from Eva

that it arrived safely in Germany !

At first I only showed two small corners, but here it is

It is my part of the swap we made : a watercolour against a quiltlet 

(A4 size)

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So just be a little patient and keep an eye on the calendar,

the giveaway might be coming your way in a few weeks time

.......

rain and sunshine

Yesterday started with lots and lots of rain

real autumn weather !

I went anyway to the Stitch'nBitch group in Rotterdam

in the new location (right in the centre of town)

but, due to the lousy weather,

we were only with five

...

but

the sun came out in the afternoon

and the day ended beautifully !

Today I almost completed the middle piece

for one side of my new b i g project.

I sewed everything together on the machine

and then basted the seams down by hand

(that gives such a lovely feel to it)

A lot of butterflies

like a stained-glass window

...

and butterflies like a simple x  

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And we ended the afternoon with a loooong walk

with daughter and kids in the autumn sunshine.

...

(O, and you know that I completely forgot I've just started my third blogging year ?)
 no:  no give-away this time

a wonderful day !

The 26th of October

was a wonderful sunny day

44 years ago

just as sunny as it was today !

Well ... how would I know that so accurately ?

that's easy :

we had a wonderful sunny wedding day !

.....

And today :

a bit older, a bit wiser (sometimes) and still lots of sunshine !

Sunshine

(inside or out)

brightens up your life !

 May you all have lots of days with sunshine

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Earlier today, when man was away to his Italian class,

I was knitting on my last (so far) pair of socks

with my favourite Kaffe Fassett yarn from Regia.

Ofcourse I finished them later today !

The other pair of a more turquoise KF colour ( and slightly too big )

went to a dear friend who visited us in spring and had terribly cold feet ...

However : these are definately not too big !