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well, as i mentioned before, people keep having those babies and i'm knitting just fast enough to keep up. then a friend threw a wrench in the works by having twins. a month or two early! so i am busily knitting things for two girls who are very tiny (four pounds each, more or less when they came out).

because the first ultrasound i saw showed one baby vigorously kicking the head of the other baby, i set to work making devil pants for that one and angel pants for the other. the devil tail may be tough to see in the photo, but it's there. click to enlarge it. both are made with a cotton/silk blend yarn called attitude from classic elite yarns. the gold for the butt wings and belt of the angel pants is a much lighter weight yarn of the same blend.

when the babies came out it was apparent they were both girls so i started on tiny, super-girly cardigans using patons soy wool stripe in geranium for one and plum for the other. it's wool and soy in stripe form. plenty of fiber.

i made a couple of dresses but forgot to photograph them, so nevermind. but on saturday i went to the hospital to see the new girls and they were wrapped up like burritos and rested in little boxes. they were fascinating the way other baby animals are fascinating, mostly head with a body that seems unimportant for now. they don't quite seem real and don't use their eyes much yet. they are so small they're sort of frightening because of the smallness but the fact that they came out so early and so tiny and are insisting on being is impressive. they open giant soft eyes and small teardrop mouths and they curl and uncurl fingers. they want things and they know we exist. they just don't seem to know what to do with us yet.