Gifted

Good morning readers,

after a pretty short night, here a short post :) I don't have time to write emails regularly since we don't have wifi here and beeing able to sit in our office and write for some time is scarce. I try to rest when the babies rest or Heiko is taking his turn. Mostly I just want to read or knit (a tiny bit. I'm working on socks for my midwife. She is just great!).

So instead of writing 216548 emails, I'd like to show some of the gifts I got. (I got a great great great great quilt too, but I need to take pictures of it with good light and it deserves a post of it's own!)

Sushi knitted some great BSJs for the girls ( I won't use their real names here, email me for the real names :) ) Aren't they cute!


Maria made some really nice hats (traditional Danish pattern) and also send me some chick-knit-novels. Great for my sleep deprived brain! Thank you!



Yesterday a parcel from Gewändertruhe-Louise arrived. In it a cute Shawn the sheep card, a lovely letter that made me cry and two Fant-Friends for our girls. Of course E adopted "Ele"!
Thank you for your nice gifts, my dear friends and everybody else: thank you for your nice comments and emails. It's great to know, that people care!

Hugs
tini

My FO aka WIP

M & E
born July 15th at 23.32 & 23.33 o'clock. In the end via c-section after a day full of "fun"....
But we are so happy. Both are still small 2700 gramm at birth, at the moment both are around 2.500 gramm but very healthy. I just hope, that the warm weather will be over soon.

I'm recovering nicely and we all left the hospital today!

Thanks to all, who send emails :) I will reply soon!

Hourglass

Hi everybody,

I'm still at home and still very pregnant, "enjoying" the 30° C (86° F) :) I'm mostly lying on my bed or on the couch since I'm very massive and my back is aching like mad. The joys of a twin-pregnancy but since most of my pregnancy went so well and the 2 crumbs are doing so fine (the hospital does not expect them to be delivered until next week...), I'm not the one to complaint....

But hey, I do have something to show (no pregnancy pics ;) ) My Hourglasssocks are done! I told the twins, that they aren't allowed to come out, until these were done. My personal hourglass so to say ;)



Pattern: Hourglass from Knitty Fall 2008

Yarn: Wollmeise Twin in We're Different (Ballerina), around 106 gramms (out of my stash)

Modifications: I knitted one less pattern repeat on the leg-sections since my legs are more curvy and leaving off one pattern repeat was the easiest. They are still "high" enough. Ma gauge was a bit looser but since my feet are big"ish", that was still o.k.
The pattern is well written and I really recommend this pattern. Maybe not for people, who don't like to purl.


Also finished a while ago: Sonnenrad (sundisc), the second baby blanket



Pattern:Round Baby blanket by Genia Planck
Yarn: G-B Wolle Bamboo Touch, a superwash bamboo-wool blend (I had frayed pieces or knots in about a third of the balls, so I don't recommend the yarn), that I dyed myself. The orange colour was supposed to be red. Oh, well.... 11.5 balls, tht are 570 Gramms. (Bought for this project this year but not in my stash anymore ;) )
Modifications: Instead of just binding off I added a border from Knitting on the edge by Nicky Epstein, the first time I used that book :)

At the moment I'm swatching for another pair of socks!

Btw. if I don't reply to your emails immediately or comment on your blog: sorry, but me and the chair in front of my desk don't go along well at the moment, so computer time is limited! Sorry!