Beer, Chocolate and Biking!

Oh, the Tour de France must be in Belgium.

I must admit that I traditionaly find the first week of the tour a little... um... boring? It's pretty straight forward: a long stage with an early break that stays away most of the day, then the sprinter's teams work near the end to bring them back, then it's a bunch sprint to the finish. I find it gets much more exciting in the mountains.

However, Belgium is the only European country I've been to, and it's got all the things we love... the best beer, chocolate and biking in the world. Oh, and it's the home country of Tom Boonen (ya, did ya come back to my blog after viewing that? that's okay, take a minute, I'll wait)

So I'm working on two projects right now: my TdF KAL project Fawne:

Fawne's First Sleeve
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Matt and I decided that this full fills a lot of things for the TdF KAL... it's a French Girl pattern, the yarn color is called "rouge" and the sleeves look like arm warmers. I'm trying to convince him that I could make the team matching crochet armwarmers and he's not buying it yet (however, he does like the cotton crochet headwarmer I crocheted him over the winter).

I'm also 3 rows short of the 4.5 repeats I would've needed on the Shoalwater Shawl (if I wasn't adding a repeat).

Shoalwater Shawl
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So I'm on the final run at this point. Basically just one more repeat (well and those last 3 rows before the half way point). Then the final border and the beads then the joy of blocking (and I've got space issues with that... I have not idea how I'm going to block this).

So off to watch the peleton catch the 3 man break just in time to have a mad sprint to the finish! (hmmm, and maybe google for more pics of Tom Boonen?)