Back at home

Hi everybody,

we are back at home since monday but I got a bad bad bad cold during our vacation and this turned my break from work into sick leave :( At least my doc gave me the o.k. to use nose spray at night, so that I can sleep (I was at 3 hrs a night and totally overtired)

Since Monday DH is turning his room into our nursery. He moved his stuff (and some of mine) up to the attic, heaved his desk and a drawer into my room and got his PC running again. My laptop needs a new motherboard, so it will be some time before I can post pictures.

We also got our new bed yesterday. Heiko and a friend picked it, the matresses and all the stuff, up and we had the first night in our new bed yesterday. It's a lot higher than our old one. This makes getting up for me at the moment so much easier since I already gained 20 cm tummy circumfence.

Our vacation was a vacation of bargains.

First we got a stroller for our kids. It was reduced by 500 Euro (still 800 Euro but for 1.300 we wouldn't have bought it). It can be transformed, so that the kids can be in it until they are 4 yrs old (depending on the size of the twins ;) )


I bought 12 skeins of yarn (G-B Bamboo touch) in white. Each skein was just 1.50 Euro a skein and will be overdyed, once I decided which colourscheme I want for the second baby blanket
( I'm working on OpArt in eggplant/heathered green for the first twin at the moment).

Yesterday we also picked up 2 beds for the twins. They are used (a friend of my sister sold them to us) and we got them (with a lot of sheets and covers) for 100 Euro total! WhooHoo!

Kids are expensive but so far we have made faboulous deals and we couldn't be happier!

I'll try to finish my second maternity top today but there will be no pictures until my laptop is fixed!

Have a great easter weekend!

A week off

Hi everybody,

I just want to let you know, that I will be away for a week, visiting Sushi and my SIL.
Might be, that I go yarn shopping with Sushi, although I need more yarn like I need more weeds in the garden ;) But the outlet from Schoppel Wolle is like 15 minutes away and might be too good to pass!

I just wanted to let you know, that everything is all right at casa tini (just my laptop needs a little tune up, so all the pictures I took of my knitting and sewing are on there...). I need to take things slowly though. After 30 minutes of walking, I need a break... And my tummy is huge! And I'm just 20 weeks pregnant!

Siegfried & Roy Part II

Since I got a couple of emails and questions:

The doctors made an educated guess about the sex of the twins. They aren't 100% sure and we are not going to tell people, what we are expecting.

Siegfried & Roy are the suggestions from Heikos co-workers in case it's going to be boys. For girls it is Hanni & Nanni (Books by Enid Blyton) so far. I think, Siegfried & Roy is a lot more strange, so I'm sticking to that.

Before Siegfried & Roy we were referring to the twins as A-Hörnchen & B-Hörnchen, who are Chip & Chap in American TV ;)

So the twins might be boys or girls ;)

Since I'm at home all day, I'm making good progress on my FLS! I'm starting the second sleeve today. I put sleeve 1 on scrap yarn after 40 rows. I'm alternating 2 skeins of my handspun Romney and I don't want to run short on sleeve 2 ;)

Siegfried & Roy

Did I mention, that Heikos co-workers decided, that if the twins are going to be boys, that that would be the "preferred" names? No?
I think these names are too funny and I keep referring to the twins as Siegfried & Roy.

So I had an ultrasound at the Uniklinik in Kiel today. Siegfried and Roy are well and show no signs of TTTS. Getting this information was kind of hard. I nearly passed out during the ultrasound 3 times. After the third time we took a 20 minute brake and let some fresh air in. I felt awefull and somehow ashamed. I so wanted to know, that the twins are o.k. but my body wouldn't cooperate.

The wee ones are around 200gr each now! Tomorrow I will get into week 19, so that is halfway down the road. I guess, the first half was the easier one (weightwise ;) )

Out of order

that's what I am since Friday.
I had some weird tummy aches on thursday evening, while babysitting the 3.5 months old daughter of my friend. So I took some magnesium when I came home at midnight and things got a lot better.

Next morning I was still aching, so I took some more magnesium and after an important meeting at work I called my doc ( it was 9.30 then and they open at 10...). I got an appointment at 12 p.m.. The doc things it was an early contraction, so I'm going to stay at home for the next week and relax, relax and relax. Damn. I had hoped, that the first problems would occur later. I was pretty panicy but the doc increased my daily dose of magnesium from 120 mg to 600 mg (or whatever the weight is) and since friday I haven't had any problems.

So, here's my small tummy (18 weeks now)



and these are the trousers I made from pattern no. 124, burda mag issue 08.2005
Size 38
adjustments: added length (but not enough, these are very short trousers)

I'm not happy with the inset for the tummy, it is very low and I can't wear a lot of tops with it. The button elastic at the "waist" isn't really comfortable either
(I know the pic is horrible, for my review I need to take another one but I guess I will have more luck with my tripod instead of telling DH what to do...)


It seems that the trousers are sagging at the rearside too :( I have borrowed tons of maternity trousers from my friends, so I don't think I will make another pair and at least for my figure I can't recommend the pattern.

Other things I've finished the last few weeks:
A pair of socks FOR ME!

Pattern: Sky master pattern by Cat Bordhi from her book "New pathways for sock knitters)
Yarn: Knitpicks Memories (100% Merino) in Redwood Forest
Needles: 3mm dpn
I hope that they won't felt as easily as my other socks from a KP yarn

And I've done some spinning, so I can make progress on my handspun cardigan

Fibre: Romney, that Sarah-Jane got me at Rhinebek and that I dyed myself.
Threeply.
(My ravelympics project)