{"id":2612,"date":"2011-09-12T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2011-09-12T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:34:34","slug":"the-soothing-powers-of-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"The soothing powers of knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before you ask, I did not have the best of wedding anniversaries, although it may be one that I won’t forget in a hurry. But I’ll come back to that later. The upshot was that I needed to spend time knitting to sooth my nerves – so my new project has made some progress. This is the back of a cardigan that I’m making using Lang<\/em> Donegal yarn. The patter doesn’t have a fancy name and you probably won’t find it on Ravelry. I saw the cardigan knitted up in one of the wool shops in Zurich – it was one of those rather mean ‘you only get the pattern if you buy the wool’ deals – but then at least the pattern came for free. It’s called Damenjacke mit Z\u00f6pfchen im Oberteil<\/em> – loosely translated \u00a0– ladies jacket with little braids in the upper part. I think it should turn out to be pretty. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

So why did the nerves need soothing?<\/p>\n

Well for two reasons really….<\/p>\n

I should tell you that we very often go for a family run in the woods early on Sunday mornings. I was up with the larks and raring to go, all the more so because I’d been resting my hip all week. However, the pain had been completely gone for two days, so I really thought that there shouldn’t be any problems. All it took was 5 measly steps and the pain was back. 5 steps. I have a doctor’s appointment for Wednesday, but I think the half-marathon I’m signed up for on Saturday is probably out of the window and it may well also be the end of the marathon. After months of training, moreover training that was going really well, I am as the young people say ‘gutted’. This is SO frustrating. I’m tearing my hair out and having to face up to the fact that my body may realistically be too old to ever actually manage a marathon. Some of you may find this hard to understand, but I feel like I’m on the verge of having to say goodbye to a life goal. OK, so maybe I’m over-reacting, but I’m really not happy.<\/p>\n

Hence knitting while everyone else was out running.<\/p>\n

Now we come to the second reason…<\/p>\n

In the afternoon as the weather was nice my husband and I took our motorboat out on Lake Zurich and went swimming. It was beautiful weather, the sunny was shining, the water wasn’t too cold and the views of the mountains were magnificent. After a couple of hours the wind started to pick up and storm warnings were flashing on the lakeshore. Big black thunder clouds were heading our way – and fast. We got changed and started to make our way through the choppy waves to the shore. I sat in the front of the boat on a big old rubber boat that we sometimes tow the children along in, my weight stopping it from blowing away. (We’d been too lazy to take it out and put it away before we’d left). The wind picked up and I kept telling my husband to slow down as the wind together with the speed of the boat were lifting the front of the rubber boat…..being a typical man, he didn’t slow down.<\/p>\n

Then quick as a flash the wind caught the rubber boat, lifted it up in the air, threw me FULLY CLOTHED over the side into the waves and then blew away. Don’t laugh. It was AWFUL. I swallowed half the lake and feel like I pulled a load of muscles.<\/p>\n

Of course my husband rescued me and was very shamefaced….but it only took a couple of hours before he was cracking flying saucer jokes.<\/p>\n

In the words of Queen Victoria: ‘We are not amused’.<\/p>\n

So I found solace in a hot bath, lots of knitting, two episodes of Downton Abbey and refusing to do the washing up.<\/p>\n

I’m a little fragile today, but at least I can knit. What do people do who can’t. Drink gin I imagine!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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