FO! FO!

Hi there,

finally we got around to take some pictures of my latest finished knitted garment (I also finished sewing the dresses for the twins but no pictures of them yet. They will wear the dresses on christmas, so I will take pictures then. It's just too much hassle to dress them in the dresses just for taking pictures. Plus I need DH to hold the twins then...)

So here it is (please note, that I managed to get a new hair cut and dyed my hair. I'm pretty proud of that :))

(and yes, I did gain a bit of weight. I blame it on the meds I'm taking that I crave sweets all the time.... but others gained like 15kg in 2 weeks. I gained 3 in 5 months...)

Here's also the back. My husband does obviously not notice if the collar is wonky, when he takes pictures... go figure...)

Pattern: Textured circle shrug by Stephanie Japel
It's available for free at the lion brand homepage, you just have to sign up for it. There's also an archived KAL, which helped me a lot since there were quiet a few bits in the pattern that I did not get
Yarn: Zitron Nimbus. The yarn is a single spun yarn and it already pills. It also has developed a felted look just by knitting with it. I don't think I will use this yarn again..

I lengthend the sleeves a bit but that is all I changed intentionally. I ran out of yarn after fewer rows of seed stitch but the collar is still wide enough IMHO.

Overall I really like the shrug and I can recommend the pattern, if you use the KAL archives :)

Pyroclastic

Hey everybody,

how are you doing? I still have sick kids here, although little M. is getting better and weekends are usually better since I'm not home alone with the kids. Plus the snow is melting, so I can get outside again (meaning that the kids are asleep in the stroller and I can listen to audiobooks or podcasts = "me time" ).

I participated in a swap on ravelry. Inspired by Summersets socks I knitted my swap partner a pair of Pyroclastic socks from handdyed sockyarn, dyed by yours truly


Pattern: Pyroclastic from Knitty, Winter 09

My gauge was off, so I used the numbers for a small size but got socks that fit a size 39 very well.

The pattern on the leg of the sock biases quiet a bit. I'm not sure if I would use that patttern again for the leg but change it to another pattern. The fit on the foot is great! The arch shaping is really clever.

I think this pattern is really a winner!

Twin pictures

M. practising keep her head up :)
E. beeing cute


Since I still don't have pictures of my finished shrug or any other crafty project, you get some twin pictures :) I hope you don't mind. The twins are still ill,we have 50 cm of snow and I'm the smaller sister of the Snot Monster, so things are abit rough here...