I am a rock

o.k. just kidding. I am a whale at least partially....

Heiko took pictures of me today (it was warm and I was looking at the sun, so my expression is more than stupid) for our photo album. The second picture shows my latest FO :) I finally finished the last maternity shirt (burda pattern, I reviewed that on PR). I admit that in the end I simply serged the hems and I did not bother to press the seams open. The fabric is some kind of 100% petrol based stuff, that I got at some swap I think... Was in my stash forever and will now be worn for this summer :) ( I don't think, that I will fit into my old wardrobe that fast), so I don't care if it is really well made.

And please don't be astonished, the tights I'm wearing are compression hosiery. I'm not that stupid to wear thick black tights when it is 30 °C outside, if not necessary! My feet thank me for that :)




I'm at 33+5 weeks today (for those, who haven't been pregnant. The estimated day of delivery is 40+0 weeks. Meaning 40 weeks + 0 days). The latest measurement of my tummy was 109 cm and that was last week....

Countdown!

So I've been to the hospital for my regular ultrasound of the twins yesterday. They guess, that the twins will be born in the next 4-5 weeks. I need to rest, rest, rest and rest and take things very easy. Putting my feet up and "enjoy" the day.

Would be easier if my back did not hurt and getting up to get some food (or do other things like getting up in the morning to take a shower) means: ouch, that hurt my belly. I'm already sleep deprived, since I wake up every 2-3 hrs, since I can't turn around without concentrating anymore. I guess, it can't be worse with the kids waking up every 2 hrs, since at least I will be able to sleep without pain....

I'm knitting a lot but I'm bad on the picture side. I hope to photograph at least the finished baby blanket and the 2 preemie jackets I made this week.

I hope, you'll all understand!

Sheepshearing at Arche Warder

Good morning readers,

sorry, that I was absent again for quiet a while. I wasn't feeling very well the last few days and sleeping was the best way to cope. As DH remarked: if you don't feel like knitting, it must be bad. So nearly no knitting got done here and even less sewing. The babyblanket no. 2 is blocking and I promise to take pictures as soon as I'm able to.

But first I want to tell you about the sheepshearing at the Arche Warder. The Arche Warder is a "zoo" for old breeds of farm animals ranging from donkey to pigs, from geese to goats. Most of the breeds are near to extiction.

On May 30th was the annual sheepshearing day and since I knew, they would be selling fleeces I had to go, even though the weather was a little "unstable" and I was already looking like a whale. (the fleece per sheep was 5 Euro....)

So we got there around noonish and the shearer was already at work:


The sheep are not bred for the fleeces as you can see, so if you buy fleeces, you will get a lot of vegetable matter.

I knew I wanted a Jacob sheep fleece and this is the lady, who provided it. I was able to choose "my" sheep:

Benita, the lady I took a spinning class with, also suggested a Moorschnucke (white polled heath) So I got a fleece from one of those too. But before "my" ewes were shorn it was lunchtime and Heiko and I went for a walk in the "zoo". Unfortunately my batteries were pretty low, so here are just a few of the impressions:





Little piglets (and no, those are no boars)




A stone age settlement (no re-enactors though at the weekend of the sheepshearing...)

Finally it was the turn of my sheep to be shorn (I just took pictures of the Jacob)





I decided to process half of the Moorschnucke myself (bad idea, the jacob fleece had much less VM in it and less lanolin...) and sent the rest away to be processed.

Unfortunately I have to lay down a lot (just talked to my midwife, it seems that I have early contractions again and not false labour as I thought...) so spinning will have to wait...