Ribbons Undone

Right after we moved to Germany, Oma gave Quinnie her first Strick-Liesel. Lots of kids in German grow up using them (Simon even had one!). Oma taught Quinnie how to use it, and she quickly became obsessed. I don’t know how to knit, so thank goodness for Oma!

Here’s a How-To Strick-Liesel video (in German)

Oma has since taught Quinnie how to knit with all sorts of needles and looms. We have 3 big baskets full of yarn and other knitting paraphernalia.

knitting on the subway (wearing a scarf knitted by Oma)

knitting in a restaurant

I even caught her knitting in the bathtub!

knitting in heels (lol!)

She’s pretty resourceful when she can’t find her needles…

The choir that Quinnie is in was asked to sing at a First Communion in Basilika Sankt Gereon. I’ve blogged about this beautiful church and it’s history before in this post. Quinnie and Kiera’s Great-Grandparents were married there, so it’s pretty cool that she gets to sing there occasionally. Oma, Opa, Tante Ruth and Maxim came to the service to support Quinnie also. I snapped a few photos with my iPhone…

It was standing room only downstairs so we checked out upstairs, where there were plenty of seats. Cool to see the church from another perspective also.

If you look closely you can see the choir near the middle/back of this photo (no zoom lens).

Papa taking a pic

This woman singing hymns in front of the organ (above) had an amazing voice

After the service we all met up outside..

..and then headed to our place for brunch. It’s nice to have family around to celebrate the little (and big) things in life.