{"id":487,"date":"2011-11-23T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:20:11","slug":"twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about six weeks ago one of my cousins had twin baby girls, Maisie and Annabelle. I only found out he and his wife were pregnant about a month earlier. He&#8217;s not the best letter\/email writer. \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, I&#8217;ve been knitting steadily since I first found out. I decided to make them each a pair of the Hello Kitty pants. I had enough yarn left from the first pair to make two more, if I did the smallest size, though I ended up having to swap the order of the two pinks in the second pair, so I&#8217;d have enough of the dark pink to finish. I also made them each one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/knitting-updates\/\">Baby Arans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/maisie-annabelle.jpg\" alt=\"Gifts for Maisie and Annabelle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took a break from Maisie and Annie&#8217;s gifts to make something for a co-worker in time for her baby shower. The pattern is called the Eloise Cardigan. It&#8217;s quite sweet and girly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/eloise.jpg\" alt=\"Eloise Cardigan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve joined a stitchers group at work. Not just knitters; crocheters, quilters, cross-stitchers, any kind of fiber art. Anyway, we&#8217;re making a basket for a silent auction and my contribution to it is a couple of pot-holders. They&#8217;re done in double-knitting, so each side is a mirror image of the other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/potholders.jpg\" alt=\"Pot-holders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making another attempt at socks. My first attempt was a bit of a failure. I used a yarn with a bit of elastic in it. Since I knit at a pretty high tension, it made for very tight stitches and I gave up after the first few rounds. This time I picked a regular yarn, and things are going much better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/socks.jpg\" alt=\"Socks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just finished cataloging <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/annes-house-of-dreams-by-lucy-maud-montgomery-version-2\/\" title=\"Anne's House of Dreams Audiobook on LibriVox\">Anne&#8217;s House of Dreams<\/a> at LibriVox. It&#8217;s a little sad to think that there&#8217;s only one more book in the series that I can record (Rainbow Valley). My next LV project is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/20856\" title=\"Ten From Infinity e-book at Gutenberg\">Ten From Infinity<\/a> by Paul W. Fairman. It&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/?p=33855\" title=\"SFFAudio Challenge #6\">6th SFFAudio Challenge<\/a> book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also just finished Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud Von le Fort for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatius.com\/\" title=\"Ignatius Press\">Ignatius Press<\/a>. It&#8217;ll be my last Ignatius recording. They&#8217;ve decided not to continue producing audiobooks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m directing my first mainstage show at the WCT (the other shows I&#8217;ve directed have been fundraisers, not part of the main lineup), Angel Street, which is the American title of the play Gaslight (made into a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer). It&#8217;s been pretty chaotic so far. In the past the show in this slot would have had auditions and maybe a first read-through before the holidays, but wouldn&#8217;t have started rehearsals till after. This year, the board changed the schedule. The show goes up at the end of January instead of February, so not only am I having to schedule around the holidays, I&#8217;m also having to schedule around the two Christmas productions. Ack! At least I was able to get a good cast together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about six weeks ago one of my cousins had twin baby girls, Maisie and Annabelle. I only found out he and his wife were pregnant about a month earlier. He&#8217;s not the best letter\/email writer. \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, I&#8217;ve been knitting steadily since I first found out. 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