Stuff for the wee once

Hej da!

I've been off work since tuesday, since the co-worker of my co-workers girlfriend has some kind of disease, that my ob-gyn thought I should not get and she forbate me to go to work. I'm back at work tomorrow since a bloodtest showed, that I have had that illness when I was young...

So, I had some time working on baby blanket no. 1

Pattern: OpArt from Knitty
Yarn: 450gr of KnitPicks Swish DK in Eggplant and Tidepool Heather
Just needs blocking but I need help from Heiko with our old matress for that and he won't be home till 10 p.m. tonight, so it will have to wait :)

Second finished thing: another sleeping bag. I've made this one so often now, that I forgot to count. Buying this pattern (an OOP burda pattern)has def. payed off!


I'm also spinning:
This is what I'm working on (o.k. started today but my aching back -due to a not fully functioning right kidney- had me take a lot of breaks)

It's a merino roving, that Heiko gave me for christmas.

My maternity shirt is also coming along but it's not finished yet. I spend most of my time outside the last 3 days ;)

P.S.The waterpistol is for the cats of course :)

Preparing for the twins

Hi everybody,

I found a way to get the pictures from my camera onto DHs PC (our friend will set up the laptop for me, since last time I installed programms I had tons of extra programms on my pc, that I don't need like the photoeditor, that came with my camera and I don't need that, since I have photoshop).

So, during our "vacation" ( I was ill, so I don't count that as having had really vacation) Heiko painted his former office:



Since I was pretty crappy, I forgot to take "after" pictures but Heiko took one of Greebo inspecting one of the new baby beds:
The colour is called "honey" but I'd say it is more of a papaya or mango, isn't it? I still like it but the colour chip at the home depot store looked waaaay different. We bought some more furniture last week but Heiko isn't at home this weekend and you need two to assamble the stuff. (Plus my back is killing me again. I still feel as if I have a biiiig bruise at my lower right ribs)

Another thing I did during our vacation was to dye some yarn for baby blanket no. 2:



This is the undyed yarn. It's a wool-bamboo blend (superwash). That I skeined and tied up midway since I wanted to dye the skein 50/50 (or around that) in two different colours.











First I let one half of the yarn soak in a water-vinegar mixture. I added a few drops of washing-liquid.











I then dyed one half yellow and totally forgot to take a picture of it (but I did with the orange :) ). After letting it cool down for a while (although superwash I did not dare to handle it earlier since I feared, it would felt!) I let the second half soak in the water-vinegar mix.







This is the second colour :) I used some never used cuttlery to drape the first half (still wet) of the yarn over it and let the second "half" hang into my dye.









The final (still wet) yarn looked like this and I promise (now, that I know, how this works with DH pc) to take pictures of the dryed yarn today!

And of my FOs and my WIPs (but those only if DH is home before my guests arrive) I hope, you liked my little tutorial

10.000 stitches

to go! (Or nearly) Then I will be finished with the OpArt blanket I'm knitting for one of the babies.
I'm at the part where it says: Work 18 rounds of colour A. The first round had 552 stitches, I have knit 2 round of colour A, so 16 to go, meaning around 9.000 stitches.

Problem is: I can't sit at the moment or lay down. My back ribcage just hurts like I have bruises all over. I thought I might get sciatica-problems due do having a hollow-back (sway-back?) but no, my ribcage aches if I sit wrong and then I can't sleep, causing my back to become denser and denser.

Having my tummy expand from 70cm to 98 cm in the course of say, 4 months, is an accomplishment for my body and somehow I think, it has to make up for that. I'm going to see a masseuse tomorrow and I'm now swimming once a week.

I hope, that the pains will lessen somehow, since I need to knit another blanket for baby 2 and somehow I have a feeling, that I won't have that much knitting time, once the twins are here!

Oh, and I ordered a laptop. We got a bonus from our employer, so I have some unexpected money and I ordered an inexpensive dell! So in about 3-4 weeks I should be able to post pictures of me and the huge tummy!

The most important WIPs

Hi,

today I can show you pictures!
(I will get a bargain laptop at the end of the month :) I'm getting a little birthday money and our employer gives all employées a small bonus in April (I thought June), so that will pay for the laptop. I'm not installing any programms on DH pc. I don't want him to mess with my stuff, so I don't mess with his!

But here are the promised pictures

Baby two with the foot of Baby one at it's face



Baby one beeing very tired.

Both are doing great. Each one is around 500gr which is the normal weight for a singleton, so they are on a good way!

Update: In case you haven't seen it. My sister and my brother-in-law have a little game going on, where you can bet on the delivery date (due date is 10.08.10 but I don't think, we will make it there) and the names of the twins.
Here's the blog: tini und heiko nachwuchs


The first baby blanket just need around 40 more round (but they are like 500 stitches and growing...), so that might be finished next week!

My laptop is dead

So I won't be able to show any pictures any time soon, since my husband does not have the software for the camera or Photoshop on his pc.

I need to figure out when I can buy a new laptop since we first have to buy more furniture for the kids and having a laptop, when we do have a working pc at home is something I consider luxury instead of a necessity...

So bear with me, when I can't show you any of the FOs or WIPs I have going.....