Marta's knitblog

First off, I would like to thank all the people who sent me good wishes in the comments or by e-mail. Thank you so much, it is supportive to know that someone think of me.
The biopsy was quite painful, but not unbearable. Afterwards, I was a little ashamed that I did not really behave like a hero.... I was trembling like a leaf and could not help showing my fear. Just imagining that they are going to drill your bone and sucking out your marrow....AAAARGH! Just thinking about it made me die with fear.
But now I am here, quite exhausted and with some pain, but I am still alive.
I will get the results just in three weeks, but the doctor told me he is sure he can exclude cancer. This is positive. The bad new ist that I probably suffer from essential thrombocythemia, a chronical desease. You cannot heal it, but you can live with it.

Well, enough bad news. Let's talk about knitting!

Yesterday, after my visit to the doctor's, I had some time to rest and knit, so I made some progress with my second chickami:


I decided to add some white, too. The next green stripe will be much larger.
And have a look here:

My knitting has become much more even. Did I tell you already? I have learnt another method to hold the yarn and now I have a better tension.

My husband also made a progress with the cat blanket:



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Still waiting for my movable type to run, I am posting here again hoping I can show you some pics....

Let's start with my first bottom up BOC:

(Well, it seems to work with the pics....)
I am happy I have been stubborn and finally succeed ;-)

Then, lacking of new ideas and hoping that the real summer comes, I decided to knit another chickami:

The colours will be like this:

I think I'll make some stripes.

Here my hubby's progress with the cat blanket:


So, please forgive me if I am not very loquacious today, but tomorrow morning I have my appointment for the bone marrow biopsy and I am so nervous that I am happy I can find the letters on my keyboard....
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I know, I know, entries without pictures are boring.... but at the moment it doesn't work and I have no idea what is the problem. So I will keep posting without pics - I don't wanna risk that you readers don't come any longer and forget me...
As I have already hinted at, I will soon move with this and have a brand new blog. Just be patient!

On the knitting front, I can tell that, stubborn as I am, I started the bottom up BOC again and this time I was successful not twisting the yarn as I joined to work in rounds. Please be proud.

This evening I will have a litle time for knitting finally! So I hope I can show you a FO when I have the new blog. |

My domain has been moved to another host and now you cannot see the pics! I cannot understand why..... but there are many computer-related things I don't understand....
But don't worry and come back again soon: I'm getting MT installed on my server, so that I will have a new knitblog of my own. I will post the link as soon as it is running!
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Yes, you hear it right, I have a knitting bleah. And a blog bleah and a general life bleah. Does it depend on the weather? It is COLD and it's raining like crazy....
But I wanted to post just to say that I am alive.

The knitting bleah certainly also depends on the fact that my last knitting project have not been very successful. The blog bleah is a consequence of this.... but I'll have movable type installed very soon and I will come back with a brand new blog!

Have a nice Sunday evening. |

I am too stupid to knit a bottom-up BOC. Really. After some knitting evenings and several rows I finally noticed that I had twisted it again! Can you believe it?
This is the second project I am giving up in the last few days.
I can simply not concentrate at the time being. I have to let a bone marrow biopsy done on June 29th and I am so afraid of it that I cannot sleep, cannot eat and cannot concentrate on anything.

But as a little consolation I got this today:

If you don't know this little book, have a look here. |

As you can see, I have a knitting hubby:


...and he knits continental:

(I knit English).

He is knitting a cat blanket using some bulk weight wool my sister-in-law bought from Ecuador and using 8mm wood needles:

The blanket will be knitted in garter stich, since Chr. hates to purl (who does not??). We will felt it then.

As far as I am concerned, on the weekend I had not - as usual - much spare time for knitting, since we have been on some salsa parties... As you maybe already know, I am a salsa dancer. My husband is a salsa DJ. If you understand German you can have a look at
his homepage. There you will also find pictures of the last parties.
Anyway, I have cast on for my bottom up BOC and knitted some rows:


I have also some news about my blog and my homepage:
I have been quite unhappy with my host in the last weeks, for some reasons I am not going to list. I decided to change to another one (which offers PHP, Pearl & other stuff for even a cheeper fee!).... you see? Pearl, PHP.... This means I am going to use Movable Type! I am not so confortable using a gratis host for my blog and here I cannot make the things I want. I have e.g. to upload the pictures to my site and cannot change their dimensions.
I am not familiar at all with Pearl and Co., but the company offers to install the software on your server for a fee if you don't use the free version of the software and purchase a license. I think I will do it.
....Or is there anybody out there who would install the software for me? :-)))) Just kidding.
Don't worry, as soon as I will have another domain for my blog I will inform you, so that you (one? maybe two people?) can bookmark my new site.

Have a nice week! |

PJ, I tried to send you a e-mail, but it bunched back. So, if you read this, please contact me! |

This is how Tina looks like now:


Surprised? Yesterday evening I finished it - and it was too small. The body was too tight and too short. But the biggest problem was the neck: it was so tight, that just the head of a Barbie doll would have passed through. Surely not mine. I ripped it and re-knitted it twice, than I got angry and ripped all out.

Afterwards, I cast on for the bucket-o-chic. After some rows I realised that I had twisted it. And ripped it out.

So, yesterday was not a very successful knitting day. Luckily, the weather was wonderful and Camilla and Didone liked it very much:


Today it's raining like crazy. German summer :-(( |

The problems with the server seem to be solved at the time being, so that I can post pictures again - and you can see them.

I have just little progress to show. My sister-in-law (who lives in Ecuador, South America) visited us and I had not much time to knit and crochet.

I got some GGH Roma cotton from this ebay shop:

I don't know what I will do with it, yet. I wanted to knit or crochet something for a birthday present, but I have found something better in the meanwhile. We'll see.

A little progress with Leaf:


And I started the front of Tina:


The front is knitted much more regularly than the back. This is due to the fact that I have experimented a new way to hold the yarn and with this method I have a better tension! Unbelievable that I get this kind of inspiration after so many years of knitting.

My next project will probably be the bottom up BOC.

Oh, I have added some pictures to my homepage. Have a look here for some "static" pics and here for dancing pics.

And now I go and sit in my balcony, since it's finally sunny and hot! |

No, I haven't forgotten you. Yes, I have some knitting progress to show. And yes, I cannot show it because they have again some problems with the server to which I upload my pics.
Please be patient, I will be back as soon as this problem has been solved. |

I have a free week and my purpose yesterday was spending the whole day and evening sitting on the couch in front of the TV and knitting. Nope. I had to make the laundry, to go to the police for translating and as my husband came back from work we decided to go to the movies. I of course accepted with enthusiasm, since I love going to the movies and my husband never wants to. We saw Troia and I liked it very much. But I am convinced that 80% of the people sitting in the cinema didn't even know what it was about. Young people are quite ignorant.... don't blame me if I say that. It's not their fault.

Nevertheless, I was able to complete the back of Tina:

Here is another pic taken without flash - it's blurry but the colour is more real:


I haven't made any progress with Leaf. But I decided that I will swatch for a cotton bottom up BOC. This will be the cotton I'll use for it:

(can you recognize my curious Camilla on the left?)

It's a cheap cotton I bought last year at Junghans in some different colours.

And here a picture of Didone's paw I would like to share with you - 'cause it is soooooo cute!

(under Didone's paw you can see a crochet blanket I made a couple of years ago)
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