Happy Easter Socks

(First of all, thank you all for your comments on my last blogpost. It's great to see, that so many of you care! Hugs! I'm one happy girl here!)

So, a while ago my friend Annika and I were chatting over at facebook about how the snow was kind of getting on our nerves (and Annika loves snow). I asked Annika, if she would mind, if I was making her some socks (she got a couple of pairs (3 I think) from me and I know, that she likes them and treats them well). Her respond was something along the lines of "of course not!!!!" and we settled on a colour: spring green.

Mmmhh, spring green is one of those colours that you don't find, when you are looking at my stash. So I browsed Ravelrys "search stashes for sale" and came up with this

Since most patterns would be obscured by the pooling of the yarn, I chose Lindsay by Cookie A.. (Frau Schlamuser has a Cookie A. challenge, for those who are interested...)

That I finished the socks after the first pattern repeat is a small wonder and I managed it, just because I had the idea of using a crochet hook for the k4tog (the sssk were no problem though..). Without the crochet hook our neighbours would have witness a small fire in our garden (burning the evidence :) ).

The pattern itself is well written and totally doable (with said crochet hook). To me it looks like eggshells stacked ontop of eachother. The colour of the yarn reminds me of marbled eggs on Easter grass, thus the name Easter Socks (and they arrived in NY just in time for Easter :) ).

The only thing I found weird was the toe, which is constructed with short rows and then grafted together. I'm not sure, if I'm really fond of that. The garter stitch heel on the other hand is pretty cool.

And here are the socks in all their glory



Aren't those happy Easter socks??

I'm just happy

As those of you, who follow me on facebook already know, I had a hell of a week. So around my birthday I found a strange knot in my left breast again (plus the kids had a bad cold), so I had 2 horrible days of a weekend and called the clinic on Monday to see if I could come in for an out of order check up. I could come in the next day (our neighbour took care of the twins and I'm so grateful that we have the nicest neighbours around here) and the doctors decided that they needed to make, what they call a needle-biopsy. So they got some cells out of the knot and then the waiting began.

A whole week of waiting, of thinking what would happen if the cancer would be back, what I would do if it were back. Thinking, that I'm not ready to go, that I have two tiny girls here, that need me (and I need them...). And more even more unpleasant thoughts.

So yesterday I called my Ob-gyn and she told me, that everything was just fine. That it's just scartissue and that after the pregnancy the body just changes, so that old scars feel different.

I'm just so happy and relieved.

(and I took a ton of pictures of the cutie-pies yesterday, so here are some...)

Dang!

Sorry, for my absence but the twins are sick (bad cold! Coughing, fever and a snotty nose included). I'm really really sleep deprived now. Saturday morning we spend at the hospital, to get some cold meds for the wee ones. So no Whisky exhibit for us.

Add to that a funeral (and a trip to the hospital for myself...) and you can see why I haven't been blogging lately or do any crafty things. I made a very unspectacular chickpea soup (Jamie Oliver recipe but so bland, that I can't recommend it or bothered to take a pictures). I finished a gift for a friend, I'll show pictures as soon as she has it, made a sock for my MIL twice (and it is still too big but she doesn't want me to knit it again...) and started a project bag for a swap-partner...

I'll be back soon!

Yarn bombing in Kiel

So, DH, the twins and I were shopping yesterday (one of the baby-clothes stores in Holtenau had a "warehouse" sale and I went there on Friday but yesterday I decided, that the kids need summer hats of the thin jersey variety. Not that I would be able to sew them myself... but I digress.

After shopping we went for a little walk since the kids needed their nap and look what I found there.

KNITTING GRAFFITI!

(Note: I managed to figure out how to transfer files from my phone to my laptop. It took a while since the files wouldn't show up in the program I installed but I managed it in the end. Plus now I have one of my favourite songs as my ringtone...)