I’m still here…promise!

The last little while at work was exhausting and now that I have been on leave for a few weeks I finally feel like getting back into the blog…at least until I have 2 small babies to take care of anyway! I’m doing quite well still, but am starting to slow down, hence sitting in front of the computer and writing a blog post! I only have a few things to show you all at the moment and all of them are old…the reason for all that I will show you being old? Well I’m not showing you anything gender specific, thats our little secret, besides this way you get to see these items on babies as they grow into them, much cuter that way!

I made myself another Calorimetry a few months back and have worn it loads! I have enough yarn to make another as a gift, but I don’t know who to give it too! I can think of two people who might like one and wear one, but I just can’t choose between them. Can I blame pregnant brain? Probably not. Anyway the yarn is Freedom Spirit By Twilleys of Stafford (Ravelry link). I love this yarn, the colours are great and work with most of my clothes and it has a lovely fuzz without being furry! Please excuse the photo, I tend not to be the most alert and smiling camper by the end of the day!

I’ve also done some baby knitting that I can show you. I made a baby surprise jacket out of some yarn I dyed and spun a while back, I’m really happy with this yarn and even after knitting two baby jackets with it I still have some left over for something else! The other one was a february baby sweater for a friend many months ago now. I did an applied i-cord edge which I had only done once before a long time ago. It really is a lovely way to finish some garments, especially garter stitch as I am not always happy with the edge that I get just by leaving garter stitch…probably why when I knit scarves they are ribbed. I should really do the same to the sleeves, but I figure knowing bubba’s they are only going to get sucked at anyway!

Still sticking to the baby thing…leggings! These were knitted from an old paton’s book and should fit next winter. I used Baby Zarina Print (Ravelry link) that was given to me as a Birthday gift. It’s such a soft yarn, I do love Zara and Zarina…oneday when money is no object I would love a plain basic black cardigan for myself knitted out of Zara, but for now I will settle for other slightly less pricey yarn options.

After many, many months I finally finished my Aunties Hi-visibility jumper. It was wonderful to get this one out of the WIP stage and even more wonderful how well it fitted my Auntie! But yes, you wouldn’t miss her in a crowd in this one, except maybe when she’s at the mines with everyone else in Hi-vis gear of course!

Thats about it for me at the moment photo wise. I need to get an up-to-date belly shot on here, I’m 32 weeks, at my last scan (on Monday) the babies were both around 4 pounds each so I am officially carrying more baby than my Mum did when she had me. Other than that I am knitting some gorgeous little jacket, hat and mitt sets for the babies to come home in, I just don’t want to show a half finished, un-blocked photo of them, they are too special to me to been seen half made.

Hope your all keeping well, I’ll endeavour to come back again soon!….promise.