blue eyes

babies got blue eyes....

.... o.k. mine is PURPLE



Unfortunately I had a circulatory collapse on Thursday night on the way from E. & M.s room to ours, with E. on my arms. Luckily the rattan chest in our bedroom lessend the impact of my fall. E. is completely unhurt but I hit the chest with my head too! Now I look as if I have been in a fight! DH and I were out yesterday evening and all the people in the restaurant looked at Heiko as if he was hitting me!

Now I have a souvenir from that accident for at least a fortnight!

weird food

So, I'm trying out tons of new recipes (the last one was for Börek, a deep fried dish from Turkey with Feta cheese. Yummy! I bet it has 1 million kcal :) but sometimes it has to be deep fried...) but last Thursday I just needed:

Buttermilk soup

(sorry no picture but imagine a bowl with buttermilk in it. It just looks the same like uncooked buttermilk ;) )

And then it hit me. It's kind of weird to eat warm, sweetend buttermilk that has mini-pasta in it and is slightly thickend with pudding mix. But it's something that is very typical at least with my family ( altough my mum makes it with pieces of pears and semolina dumplings...). I guess every part of the world has something as a dish, that other people think is kind of weird...

lanesplitter

Wow, what a boring title! But it is 7 a.m., the night was o.k. but the kids decided, that it was time for breakfast at 5.30 a.m. and so I'm here, having had breakfast, the kids are fed, washed and into their clothes for the day and so am I :)

So I thought, I'll show you my latest FO:

Lanesplitter by Tina Whitmore from the First Fall 2010 issue of Knitty


(the lanesplitter is the skirt, not the jacket. That is a February lady sweater, since I'm a follower and have to make what everybody is making :) And yes, I also knitted a BSJ, Fetching and an Ishbel. I have yet to make a Clapotis though....)

Why did I make a knitted skirt? mmh, actually I like wearing knitted skirts. I had a long skirt waaay back, when I started my appreticeship and wore it a lot, although it was green and I don't know any other woman, who wore long green skirts out of knit fabric even in the 90s. Boy, where did I get that skirt from? But what really made me want to knit this skirt were the 3 skeins of Noro Kureyon and the 3 skeins of Boku that were sitting in my stash for years! The pattern stated, that I would need 6 skeins of yarn: Perfect!

I used a provisional cast on and cast on the number of stitches I would have after increasing like stated in the instructions, knitted until I reached the circumfence needed and grafted the stitches together, to provide a visible seam. Worked really well! For the waistband I used some MerinoSeta, that was sitting in my stash even longer than the Kureyon.

So, I was finished and I had so much yarn left! I tried to add a border to the skirt, that I found in Nicky Epsteins "Knitting over the edge" but that looked stupid, so I just added a couple of rows of knits and purlstitches. In the end I had 2.5 skeins left over (I could have knitted the skirt with the Noro alone... go figure), that is the only downside.

I like the pattern even if it makes me look like a wanna-be-hippy with all its different colours. It matches everything im my wardrobe though :)

Now I just need to make a slip to go under the skirt :)

If you are wondering: I'm still doing well with my recipe-challenge. I made some nut swirls last week, but did not take a picture. Yesterday we had Falafel for lunch. Really a winner, but since I had my in-laws over I also did not take any pictures... sorry...

Delicious

I have a fellow Raveller coming over this afternoon and of course I had to bake something.
I had read about Friedas Nusszopf (it's a swirly nut cake with yeast-dough) on chefkoch.de (which is like allrecipes.com just in German) and people raved about it.

So I gave it a try, since I had all the ingredients for the dough at hand and just needed to buy nuts.



It's awesome and not even hard to make! I did not add the glazing, since I *cough* had to try it when it was still warm, since it smelled so delicious. I had a co-worker over last night and I made her try it as well. She asked for a second helping :)

This is my 5th new recipe for this year and def. a winner!
(If you want an English translation I'll ask the original poster for permission, just let me know!)

Lots to show

This post has been written in my head for 20times or more. Somehow time is limited with the twins and/or I'm just too tired or not in the mood to resize my pictures.... you get the picture.

But the twins are napping at the same time (wonder!!!!) and I thought, I use the time. So I have tons to tell/show you.

First up a christmas gift, that I made (twice)

The pattern is the Margaret Sling bag, which is unfortunately no longer available for free (I'm just happy, that I downloaded it before it retired)
The fabric is from IKEA. Stupid me cut out one of the sections in the wrong direction and I had to go back to IKEA 3 days before christmas..... argh...
(I know, that the picture is crappy but I needed to take a quick picture before mailing it off...

If you have the pattern: give it a shot. It's a great bag!

Next up:
Spinning meeting. I was able to attend a spinning meeting in January. Having a day off and watching so many skilled spinners was a real treat for me. (Since I don't have permission to show faces, you just get a very cropped picture)



I'm working on a long term project. I'm a fairly unexperienced spinner and spinning for a garment is a first for me. I hope, that this will become enough yarn for a vine yoke cardigan one day. There are over 500gr of roving for me to spin up (might be a kilo, I need to check the recipt I got....) So far I filled 3 bobbins and I can't see that the huge amount of roving got less.... It ball reminds me of an add for Swiffer....





Knittingwise I finished a gift for a friend. By now I guess she has received it, so it's safe to show a picture. M. just would not lay still for the picture :) The twins are getting more mobile every day...
Pattern: Baby yours by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The pattern is awesome. I'm working on a second cardigan right now, but converting it to having fewer seams, since I'm short on yarn (Superlana by Lana Grossa. So far nice to work with...)

And last not least: My recipe challenge. So far I have made 4 new recipes. The latest beeing rhubarb-marzipan muffins and "Kirschmichel". I have a picture of the Kirschmichel on my phone, I just need to download that, so until then you'll have to be happy with pictures of the muffins and the carrot-ginger-coconut soup


Time for the girls to get up :)