Sewing UFO is looking for a good home

O.k. This is a pre-pregnancy sewing project. A jacket from an Onion-pattern (that I don’t have at hand right at this moment) a straight 38 according to their measurements.
Fabric: A pink-wool blend
What is left to do: Hem the sleeves (started on one but messed with the bagging of the lining …) And close the seam, where I turned the right side out after attaching the lining. I also had planned to make a small belt to close the jacket. I’m going to give the remaining fabric to the person, who adopts this ufo for some kind of closure…

Why do I give this away? My body changed after the pregnancy. Even if I’m close to my pre-pregnancy weight, my body shape isn’t and I don’t think it will be soon. So this jacket just don’t fit anymore. Plus, the style is just not me esp. I have cut my hair pretty short. I just look like MOB. If you are interested, please send me an email to tini(ahead)schrott(dohot)freenet(dohot)de (you know how to change that ;) )

Edit to add: Since Rhonda asked about the size. It's a size 38 EU. I find, that the onionpatterns are similar to burda patterns, when it comes to sizes. So this would be like a size 12 burda patterns. A table of measurements (also in English) can be found here on the burdastyle site.

Knitting content

and you thought, this would transform into a cooking blog :) Nope. I've been knitting quite a bit actually but some things need to get to their final destination first :)

But here's what I've been working on:

Holden 1.0



Sarah-Jane sent me an incredible Valentine-parcel (which I did not take a picture off. Bad blogger, no cookies...) that contained (beside some great Koigu-yarn) 3 skeins of Habu Textile Silk in a lovely brown colour and with a great sheen to it. I was totally in love with the yarn and set out to find a pattern for it, that wasn't tooooooo complicated since I mostly knit in the evenings, when I'm very very tired (since the twins mostly wake up around 4-5 a.m. and sometimes the night is over then. No, they don't sleep thru the night, yet). So Holden was a perfect choice. A main stockinette body with an easy lace edge to keep my interest.

Unfortunately I discovered, that the brown and my complexion just don't match. Even with the black eye (update on that below :) ), so I send it to Sarah-Jane as a thank you (in hope, that it will suit her better :) ). Luckily she likes it :)

I really enjoyed making the Holden, so I made another one :), this time from deep deep stash (Fleece Artist. I got the yarn in a destash from Bockstark Knits 2008 or so)

The green is also not my best colour but it's more blueish than yellowish.

For a friend, who got a baby daughter in January I made another Baby Yours. This time I altered it to be seamless (see my ravelry notes here) Again modeled by M. :
As you see, it's pretty wide but my kids are very slim (they just don't eat well...) and the 6 month size is waaaay to wide. I'm planning to knit them the Baby Mine cardigan for their christening and I'm going to use the 6 months width and the 1 yr lenght :)

I had a hat emergency last week. Our favourite hat (made by Maria) was getting too small! So I knit E. a Buzzbee-hat myself. The only yarn in my stash that matched the requirements was an Alpaca-blend. So I made a size large, since I so hope, that Spring will be here soon and they don't need warm hats for a longer period of time (they are going to wear cotton hats instead...). The pattern calls for a 50gr ball. I used 27 gr (but I made the ties to short. I had read the whole pattern first and somehow 11.5 cm stuck in my head not 20cm. 11.5 cm is another measurement in the pattern but for a completely different step.... Still I don't think, that I would have used 50gr...:)

And lo and behold. The hat is too big. It will fit next winter though (since it does fit ME!)
Here's E. modelling it:

Still very very cute. The yarn is GGH Cumba, which is a very lovely wool-alpaca-poly blend.

So, these are all my finished projects. I have a pair of plain vanilla socks on the needles but that will have to wait for another post.


Q/A: Katharine asked about the insulation qualities of crocheted potholders. Actually I don't like them very much. Mostly because they tend to be too small for my big hands. I usually use these sewn gigantic gloves since I tend to be a bit clumsy and they keep me from being burnt on a regular basis. What I remember though, is that they do keep the heat off quite well. But I just don't crochet...

Simple pleasures

Thank you all, for your kind words regarding my black eye. It's been nearly two weeks since I fell and you can still see the bruise in my face but it's getting a lot better! I had headaches for a couple of days but nothing serious. I might have a little scar on my right eyelit but that is nothing serious. I'm so glad!

The last couple of days I indulge in simple pleasures, that I want to share with you.

Schrot und Korn, a German magazine about health food had an article on breakfast recipes in their latest issue. I have to admit, that breakfast is one of my main meals of the day. I love breakfast! And I love grains. I like muesli, I like all kinds of porridge and so on. So I had to try out their recipe for Kasha, since I'm always on the hunt for buckwheat recipes.



I can tell you, it's yummy! ( I think it is recipe 10 or so for my 40-recipe challenge) Today I made Pancakes using their recipe too (recipe 11). Also recommended!

Last weekend one of Heikos co-workers was over for breakfast. Since it was already close to lunch, I also made some soup, using Bonnies recipe for Brokkoli-noodle-soup. It was an instant success!


Easy, comfort food!

As for knitting (and sewing but I haven't sewn a stitch in ages....). I finished a couple of things but I can't show most of them just yet. Yesterday I needed a quick sucess, since I had to frog a dishcloth the second time around and I don't think, that a dishcloth should be so much work... So I made a very very very simple one instead (cast on and finished it yesterday. Stashbusting...)